In the past two Animal Crossing games, Brewster owned a Cafe inside of the town Museum This time around in New Leaf, the Cafe is a stand alone Community Project to be built when you progress through the game. Read on to learn all about it:
We’re back today with Mr. Iwata’s comments on the reception and sales that Animal Crossing: City Folk received back in 2008 when it launched on the Nintendo Wii. He also talks about the effect it had on New Leaf! Read all about it below:
Mr. Iwata recently had a chat with Nikkei in Japan about a variety of topics including Animal Crossing. Read all about it below:
The Animal Crossing: New Leaf DLC schedule for January 2013 has been announced by Nintendo. Check out these two new DLC items after the break that owners of a Japanese copy can receive next month!
Big congratulations to Animal Crossing: New Leaf. You’re the first Nintendo 3DS game to pass 2 million copies sold in Japan according to Famitsu! It’s kind of ridiculous how fast New Leaf sold compared to other 3DS titles, just look at the animated graph above. (New Leaf is the big blue spike at the end!)
Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land are close to hitting the 2 million mark but that’s over the span of 14 months while New Leaf has reached this mark in less than 2 months. Very impressive indeed.
There’s certainly no danger of the Animal Crossing franchise coming to an end any time soon based on these massive sales. Animal Crossing for the Wii U anybody?!?!
The latest free DLC item for Animal Crossing: New Leaf is being sent to owners of the Japanese game. This time around you’ll be getting a festive Yule Log item to go with the holiday season! Act fast as the item will end distribution after December 25th.
To receive the Yule Log DLC item, make sure you have SpotPass enabled for New Leaf and then visit Pelly at the Post Office. She’ll hand you the item once the data has been transmitted to your 3DS via SpotPass.
Let’s hope Nintendo keeps with the free DLC releases in the future, this is the fourth item released so far since the game released on November 8th.
(via Nintendo JP)
Nintendo has released a short video with Iwata apologizing for the out-of-stock situation in Japan currently for Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Some have been wondering why this is even a problem since it shouldn’t be difficult to produce more standard game carts.
According to Iwata, Animal Crossing: New Leaf uses a modified 3DS game cart which offers additional save data storage compared to the traditional 3DS game cart. The reason for this is due to the nature of the game saving more items, houses and such data.
Unfortunately, the supplies for this special type of game cart are limited therefore causing the supply issues for Animal Crossing: New Leaf. In fact, replenishing supplies will apparently take several months so it’s unlikely the stock situation will be going away any time soon.
This may also have an effect on the timing of the western release of the game… If Nintendo can’t even supply enough copies for Japan, how are they going to supply North America and Europe any time soon? Feel free to speculate in the comments below!
(via Nintendo JP, Cheesemeister)
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