Players of last year’s Happy Home Designer will know that the title didn’t only just introduce a new way of playing Animal Crossing; it also added a significant amount of new content to the series in terms of furniture and other items.
With the recent announcement of the upcoming Animal Crossing mobile game using the free-to-play model (or free-to-start in Nintendo-speak), we thought we’d take a deep dive into the monetization of Nintendo’s previously released Miitomo app to see what we can expect.
In the newly released Japanese overview trailer for Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, a release date for the game has finally been revealed for Japan, and we’ve got some juicy speculation on the overseas release date.
Since the announcement of Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, we’ve called it a party game, not a board game. That’s because there is more to the game than just the board game mode that has been shown off so far, and it’s now been confirmed on Nintendo Treehouse Live.
As many of you know, Nintendo’s latest big release Splatoon launched today on Wii U. Luckily for us, Engadget has published an interview with the producer of the game Hisashi Nogami alongside the release! But who is Hisashi Nogami?
Hisashi Nogami is a top developer at Nintendo, where he has directed Animal Crossing games from the original through to City Folk on the Wii. More recently, his attention has been focused on the Wii U OS software, and of course Splatoon. We can only assume he is working on the upcoming Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer as well.
Thanks to the folks at Engadget, we got a little Animal Crossing question in at the end of the interview for us to twist and speculate on:
It’s happening at long last. Nintendo has just announced today a new agreement with Japanese mobile game company DeNA to bring Nintendo’s intellectual property, including characters, to mobile devices. This new deal includes the potential for any and all Nintendo IPs to be developed for mobile devices in collaboration with DeNA. There will be no exceptions to any individual IP: the deal covers them all, including Animal Crossing.
Aya Kyogoku, the director of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, took to Miiverse today to remind everyone of the impending closure of the Animal Crossing Plaza application on Wii U. As we’ve known since the release of the plaza back in 2013, the application will be closing this month. The last chance to download it from the Nintendo eShop is December 21st, so here’s your chance to check it out if you haven’t yet.
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