The Setsubun or Bean Throwing Festival holiday in Animal Crossing: New Leaf
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Yesterday was Setsubun in Japan and of course that means there’s a holiday in Animal Crossing: New Leaf for it! Keep reading to learn all about it:
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf Korean Commercials
Check out these new Animal Crossing: New Leaf commercials for South Korea! The game releases in just under a week from now on February 7th over there.
Sure they’re in Korean but you’ll find bits of new footage in the commercials.
A closer look at the Animal Crossing StreetPass puzzle on Nintendo 3DS
We’ve reported on the Animal Crossing: New Leaf StreetPass puzzle in the past but now we have much clearer images of the completed puzzle. Read on to see the rest of the pictures:
Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct – February 1st
Today we have a surprise new Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct from Nintendo with the Animal Crossing developers playing New Leaf in the winter! It’s rather long at 38 minutes so enjoy the video. We may have English subtitles in the future but for now it is only in Japanese.
A new set of promotional DLC items much like the previous 7/11 items were announced today as well. Click here to read all the details on that!
Campus stationery DLC items coming to Animal Crossing: New Leaf in Japan
Along with the new Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct released today, a new set of DLC items for Japan were announced. These items appear to be part of a promotion for Kokuyo Camlin which is a company in Japan who manufactures stationery products such as pencils and art materials. Read on to learn all about them:
Animal Crossing: New Leaf has passed 700,000 digital downloads in Japan so far
Iwata has dropped some sales numbers at the recent Corporate Policy Briefing revealing that Animal Crossing: New Leaf has passed 700,000 digital downloads sold in Japan as of December 31st, 2012
In fact, these sales make up one-fourth of the total number of Animal Crossing: New Leaf copies sold in Japan! For those curious, the total number sold as of December 31st, 2012 is just past 2.7 million.
There are several possible reasons why the digital copies sold are so high with this game:
- The retail game suffered severe supply shortages in the first month
- Animal Crossing is the perfect game for digital download as it is a game you play every single day for a long time
- Those who imported Japanese 3DS consoles to play the game early may have chosen to purchase the game digitally rather than importing the retail game as well
Time will only tell if the digital version is as successful overseas as it was in Japan. Which version are you planning on purchasing? Digital or retail? Leave your answer and reasoning in the comments below!
(via Nintendo JP)
The latest update on the release date of Animal Crossing: New Leaf in America and Europe
Nintendo posted their earnings report today and with that came the latest first-party launch schedule for all regions. I’ve posted the 3DS schedule for both America and Europe above, however you can find the full line-up at the end of the post.
This lines up pretty well with what we already knew so far although I can’t help laugh at “Early 2013” still on the American list.
One more interesting thing I noticed is that Europe is still calling it “Animal Crossing (temp.)” so we may see an alternative name to New Leaf in Europe. Just like how we had “City Folk” and “Let’s Go to the City” on the Wii.
Anyway, the full report can be found in the source link below including Wii U titles for all regions. Leave your comments below regarding this latest update!
(via Nintendo JP, page 9)