Nintendo is sharing more info on their theme park Power-up Band amiibo functionality

As teased in the recent Direct, you can use them with the Switch

Just recently, Nintendo shared more info on Super Nintendo World via a physical walking tour with the father of Mario: Shigeru Miyamoto. It was amazing! Go watch it.

Back? Well you may have noticed that , Nintendo teased the Power-Up Bands (which are basically a form of Magic Bands from Disney parks♐), and somꦆe form of Switch functionality. Well, thanks to a new landing site, we now know a bit more on how that will all work.

, amiibo will correspond to the character on the band itself. So the above red band with the red “M” for Mario will become a “Mario amiibo.” Other bands match up to Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Toad, and Yoshi. The bands are used directly with the Switch NFC point on the Joy-Con or the Pro Controller, but “are not compatible with the 3DS or Wii U.”

Of course, the bands will also work in the park as a scorekeeping mechanism of sorts, I wonder how they’ll play out in the US version of the park with long lines.

[Nintendo]