The Nintendo characters can now come to life in many new ways as amiibo figures. These are interactive figures that have the ability to communicate with specially designed games that are compatible with amiibo, simply by placing them on the Wii U GamePad. Amiibo figures can interact with games that support amiibo when the player touches them to the Wii U GamePad, reading data in the games and saving data to the figure. In Super Smash Bros Wii U, players can fight with or against the amiibo figures they own, while upgrading them during the process. They can transfer them to another Wii U console and showcase how they have trained and customized their own amiibo figures. Various games compatible with amiibo will use the figures in different ways. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will be the first game to use amiibo.