We’ve yet to get the officially translated Q&A for Nintendo’s financial results briefing, but that hasn’t stopped others from translating the Japanese text which is currently available. Interestingly, Miyamoto says that they are developing special cards as part of their Amiibo project and he also says that they may produce smaller figures which could work with a game like Animal Crossing. Here’s the translation.

“Q1 is about amiibo. They basically talk about the different projects they’re planning for next year and the advantage of allowing them to be used in multiple games as well as the speediness of their read/write speeds. They mention non-figure based ‘amiibo’ are being planned, saying that they are developing cards as part of the ‘amiibo’ project. They reference the e-Reader cards from the GBA era when saying this. They also talk about smaller, cheaper figures than the Smash figurines and talk about the possibility of using such figures in something like Animal Crossing. Miyamoto is apparently pushing teams to come up with non-standard uses of the NFC reader in the U, the results of which they hope to be able to show off next year. Also talks about using amiibo to extend the life of already released titles, like Mario Kart”

Thanks, gamerprince1999