Nintendo plans to release character figurines

Nintendo has announced (via Joystiq) plans to release character figurines with built-in NFC functionality that are compatible with video games starting from this year-end sales season.

The company is calling the figurines by their development codename, NFP, which comes from “Nintendo Figurine Platform.” NFP is not classed as an accessory product of a certain software title but as a platform itself, and it has been designed to be compatible with multiple software titles for Nintendo platforms.

The figurines are going to work with multiple software titles to be released in the future, and Nintendo are aiming to develop more software titles compatible with the figurines.

NFP has a writer function as well as a reader function, so it can not only tell what character figurine is on the Wii U GamePad, but also a compact amount of data unique to each game can be written into it and read from it. That is to say, you will be able to customize your NFP to raise or train your own Nintendo characters, for example.

NFP is going to be compatible with Wii U software from this year-end, and compatible with both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS software from next year.

Nintendo plans to announce which titles are compatible with NFP as well as more details at E3 this year.

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