Shovel Knight amiibo all but confirmed after retailer leaks
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There’s been a little chit, and chat around the water cooler about a Shovel Knight amiibo for some time. Last night a UK GAME store might have just finally let the cat out of the bag.
In a now deleted tweet the store posted that the amiibo will be available to preorder from ‘tomorrow’, likely after the Nindies@Night PAX Prime event.
So what does this Shovel Knight amiibo do? Well it unlocks exclusive content in the Wii U and 3DS version of the game, it will work in future Yacht Club Games titles.
There’s also the possibility that Shovel Knight could appear in Smash Bros, the amiibo doesn’t feature any Super Smash Bros series logos so for now keep that one in the ‘bucket of salt’ category.
We’ll find out more in the next 24 hours.
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Woooooo… he said sarcastically.. another amiibo
LOL.. I kid that is really cool that Shovel Knight is getting one, I do wonder though if this is a once off deal or would this open the door to more coming down the line, if true, I imagine there will be quite a lot of speculation or hope about a Banjo amiibo
Banjo as in Banjo Kazooie? As great as that would be, unless Microsoft sells Rare back to Nintendo, that’d never happen.
Considering its a 3rd party amiibo, maybe it could unlock shovel knight costumes in smash? I wouldn’t be surprised to see if Mario kart had some new amiibo skims chucked in too.
It’s up on EB’s website.
Yeah, I just got mine pre-ordered 🙂
It was announced a couple hours ago…. http://yachtclubgames.com/2015/08/shovel-knight-amiibo/
Hell.Yes. Now Shovel Knight for Smash please 😀
For those that haven’t seen – it states on EB’s website “online only” so pre-order fast!
The Shovel Knight Amiibo is available for ordering (online only, no pickup) from JB $24 (https://www.jbhifi.com.au/games-consoles/platforms/amiibo/nintendo-amiibo-shovel-knight-figure/799944/) and EB $24.95, placeholder price (https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-209847-Nintendo-amiibo-Shovel-Knight—Shovel-Knight-Placeholder-Price-Nintendo-3DS).
The Vooks article from 1st July (http://vooks.net/shovel-knight-digs-its-way-into-store-this-october/) suggested $39.95 regardless of platform.
JB and EB both have Shovel a knight physical releases (XBONE/PS4/WiiU/3DS) for $49 (JB https://www.jbhifi.com.au/Search/results/?keywords=shovel)/$49.95 (EB https://ebgames.com.au/any/any?q=Shovel%20knight&availability=onlinestock). Only the PC version is $39 (JB). OzGameShop (http://www.ozgameshop.com/m/search/shovel+knight/sort-relevance) has the console versions for $37.99 each (plus postage)
The press release we got at the time, some 4 months ago suggested that price yes. Since then they put the price up deliberately in Europe to avoid a ‘bargain bin’ pricing. Since our stock is tied to Europe our price also went up $10.