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Think we'll see an Animal Crossing WiiU at E3?

I really wish Nintendo would take Animal Crossing in more of a SNES Sim City direction. I can play this series for about a month and then just completely lose interest.
 
I hope it isn't their big holiday game ..animal crossing is boring imo and yawn inducing. Remember e3 2008 when Nintendo tried showing Wii version? It was a disaster.
 
Wouldn't be surprised to see a WiiU version announced but I sure hope it isn't purely for selfish reasons as I think the games are crap.
 
EhoaVash said:
I hope it isn't their big holiday game ..animal crossing is boring imo and yawn inducing. Remember e3 2008 when Nintendo tried showing Wii version? It was a disaster.
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The disaster of that e3 was that the only other game that fall from nintendo was wii music. If an animal crossing wii u was announced this e3 and set for this year, it would be coupled with xenoblade x, Yoshi, star fox, and fatal frame.
 
Neifirst said:
I really wish Nintendo would take Animal Crossing in more of a SNES Sim City direction. I can play this series for about a month and then just completely lose interest.
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But those are not similar games. You play as the mayor and that's about where the similarities end.
 
I think it's safe to expect. Wouldn't be shocked if they just called it "City Folk HD" though. The last console iteration felt like just a small tweak on Wild World, so the safe bet is for the same.
 
I don't think so, with Splatoon and Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, it would probably make the directoral staff a bit too busy for a release this Fall. It could possibly be shown for a Spring release but it isn't exactly likely
 
EhoaVash said:
I hope it isn't their big holiday game ..animal crossing is boring imo and yawn inducing. Remember e3 2008 when Nintendo tried showing Wii version? It was a disaster.
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To be fair, an AC this year would be accompanied by Star Fox WiiU, SSB DLC, Yoshi's Wooly World, Mario Maker, Fatal Frame, Devil's Third, Xenoblade Chronicles X, SMT x FE, Fire Emblem If, Monster Hunter Stories, etc.

It's already light years beyond E3 2008, and that's just based on the games we already know.
 
Don't really care. Animal Crossing is one of those games that Nintendo likes to think rounds out its release schedule, but for me only leaves a large gap where I have nothing to play.

Not saying it's a bad franchise for those who like it, but I hope we see something else. As it stands, I only got Splatoon to look forward to this year.
 
Neiteio said:
My understanding is that the producer of Splatoon worked previously on Animal Crossing.

It seems to be a misconception that the AC team is working on Splatoon.
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I dunno, if my two minutes of Wikipedia research is at all accurate, the development credit for Splatoon does go to EAD2, which is also primarily the Animal Crossing team. Now, obviously they don't have the entire group only working on one project at a time, but looking at what they've been credited with in the past couple of years, they had New Leaf and Nintendoland both in 2012, the Animal Crossing Plaza and Wii Sports Club in '13, and now they have on their plate Splatoon, AC Happy Home Designer, and likely some of the group has been involved with consulting and design for the Animal Crossing elements of the Mario Kart 8 DLC. If Happy Home Designer is kept to a small team, I suppose it's possible that there could be others working on a full Wii U AC, but based on the rest of their output I think it would be a tall order for them to be releasing two fairly large HD games within the same year, plus the other smaller projects that you mentioned as part of the series resurgence.

I think if we were to get a Wii U Animal Crossing any time before mid-2016, it would have to mean that they were getting assistance from another development group.
 
More than any other Nintendo franchise, Animal Crossing is perfectly suited for portable, bite-sized play. I would have no problem if AC never saw another console entry.
 
BGBW said:
But those are not similar games. You play as the mayor and that's about where the similarities end.
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Yeah, I guess I just wish Animal Crossing was something different than what it is. I think it would be fun to have a Sim City x Nintendoland where you zone and build a town based on Nintendo IP tile sets and characters. The fishing and fossil stuff just bored me after a bit.
 
Yep. I figured the Amiibo cards would work with the game.
 
Shojx said:
I find Animal Crossing making less and less sense on consoles with its current formula, which suits handheld systems very well. I say this despite considering the Gamecube version my favorite entry.
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OrbitalBeard said:
More than any other Nintendo franchise, Animal Crossing is perfectly suited for portable, bite-sized play. I would have no problem if AC never saw another console entry.
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I agree with both of these posters. I think Animal Crossing is just such a perfect fit for handheld gameplay that I really wouldn't mind if there wasn't any more console versions.

As far as the probability of it showing up at E3 (or somewhere else down the line), it wouldn't surprise me. They're already creating amiibos for that new 3DS game, so that would already be in place for the potential wii u version. If it does show up on the wii u hopefully it's more substantial than City Folk.
 
I hope so and I'm not even an AC fan. I just want to see if they implement my idea which seems so obvious to me. Amiibo compatibility (and I don't mean just cards) but the ability to put any amiibo on the gamepad and add that character as a town resident. Who wouldn't want Bowser as a neighbor?
 
Absolutely. Animal Crossing has its roots on consoles, please enough with the only on handhelds trash. I don't think it's a 2015 game though.

Brazil said:
Hopefully we'll never see a Wii U Animal Crossing.
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Great post. "I hope thing people want doesn't happen, here are zero reasons why"
 
I would love one, but I don't know if EAD has the resources, tbh. From what we now they're working on Splatoon, the AC Home Decorator thing, Zelda U, Mario Maker, at least some people working on Star Fox, MK8 DLC, it just seems like they might not have enough staff to do a such A resource heavy game like Animal Crossing U too.
 
I'm kind of hesitent to predict anything definite about Nintendo's E3 show this year, I feel like there are so many different things they could potentially do, but Animal Crossing seems very likely yes, though I feel like the AC team could be busy with that 3DS game atm.

If it happens I'll gladly purchase it, I really liked New Leaf but never got into it as much as everyone else seemed to mainly because I had a backlog and wasn't really in an Animal Crossing mood I guess.
 
I hope not if it's like City Folk. That was a lazy sequel. I think AC belongs to handhelds but if they expand the concept and make it truly MMO then why not.
 
Yes and it may be nintendos plan to fill in the holiday 2015 gap as best they can. Closing out the year in NA with Xenoblade Chronicles X, Yoshi's Wooly World, Mario Maker and Animal Crossing.
 
I think there's a strong possibility the WiiU will get an Animal Crossing game. Personally I don't see the appeal to the game, so I'll selfishly hope they are using the resources towards a game I'd enjoy....but I bet there's a strong enough interest for an Animal Crossing U game.
 
Doorman said:
I dunno, if my two minutes of Wikipedia research is at all accurate, the development credit for Splatoon does go to EAD2, which is also primarily the Animal Crossing team. Now, obviously they don't have the entire group only working on one project at a time, but looking at what they've been credited with in the past couple of years, they had New Leaf and Nintendoland both in 2012, the Animal Crossing Plaza and Wii Sports Club in '13, and now they have on their plate Splatoon, AC Happy Home Designer, and likely some of the group has been involved with consulting and design for the Animal Crossing elements of the Mario Kart 8 DLC. If Happy Home Designer is kept to a small team, I suppose it's possible that there could be others working on a full Wii U AC, but based on the rest of their output I think it would be a tall order for them to be releasing two fairly large HD games within the same year, plus the other smaller projects that you mentioned as part of the series resurgence.
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EAD 'teams' are really just producers and a core team of directors/game designers for each series underneath them. The bulk of the staff move fluidly between projects as their work is required.

So, for example, EAD 3 has Aonuma as Producer, then two directors under him (Hiromasa Shikata on handhelds and Hidemaro Fujibayashi on consoles), but as you start getting further down the chain, you find people who have credits on a huge variety of titles, like Skyward Sword's design director who also has worked on New Leaf, NSMB, Wii Sports, Double Dash, and so on.
 
I hope there is some unannounced first party tame coming this year, but I hope its not animal crossing. That should be exclusively a handheld franchise going forward.
 
I'm absolutely in the "save it for NX" camp. Especially with the talk before the announcement of a more unified operating system between handheld and console. Animal crossing would be a great proof of concept, and trying to do both a wii u game and a launch title would only result in brand fatigue like with what happened to new super mario bros.

If NX wasn't a thing though, i'd be crazy hyped about AnCr:U.
 
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Wow, I really hope so. I have had my Wii U since launch and it is finally starting to grow on me. I used to only use it for the Mario Games but have ventured out a little. My daughter and I loved Animal Crossing on the 3ds and we shared the same character which was tough sometimes. I am starting to discover a lot of games that I can play with her on the Wii U thats actually fun for us both and I think Animal Crossing would be another one of those types of games.
 
StreetsAhead said:
EAD 'teams' are really just producers and a core team of directors/game designers for each series underneath them. The bulk of the staff move fluidly between projects as their work is required.

So, for example, EAD 3 has Aonuma as Producer, then two directors under him (Hiromasa Shikata on handhelds and Hidemaro Fujibayashi on consoles), but as you start getting further down the chain, you find people who have credits on a huge variety of titles, like Skyward Sword's design director who also has worked on New Leaf, NSMB, Wii Sports, Double Dash, and so on.
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Makes sense...although that would still beg the question of what producers and directors would have the time to be designing a console AC right now. I doubt that the Happy Home Designer game is really all that staff-intensive, but someone's still got to be coordinating it, and while some of the folks producing/directing Splatoon are relatively "new" in their roles for that game, it's still staff that would have been important and in full swing for ACU had Splatoon not made it out of early testing.

My personal impression is that once they got their feedback on Splatoon from last year's E3, that project probably received an increased shift in resources, hence other "smaller" projects like the Home Designer fitting in around it. I'm not wholesale shooting down the idea of another console Animal Crossing, I just think with the other projects that we already know about, it would be hard to swing it for a release this year. This, again assuming they aren't contracting some of it to other outside studios, like they've been doing more of in recent years.
 
Yeah. I really hope so. I mean at this point it's pretty suspect what's going on with the Wii U, but I think it's good for the audience who's bought the system, New Leaf was very popular, and with the new 3DS game and amiibo cards it seems more likely.
 
I don't know if we'll see it going on Wii U - for me it's best suited on 3DS, and Nintendo mostly have been saying that it's more of an handheld title iirc. I still play it almost every day so I hope to see something aimed towards handheld - beside Happy Home Design.

Speaking of which, I hope HHD ties in with New Leaf, that would be amazing :D
 
kinggroin said:
Hope to god not. Rather see new shit or less prominent IPs land on the console
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I'm kind of with you bro. While I understand that Animal Crossing games are an inevitable part of life and Nintendo's bread and butter, doesn't mean I have to like it, particularly at the expense of a potential big holiday title.

Then again, it's not like the Wii U is gonna be dry this year, so c'est la vie.
 
I thought there was a decent chance we would but after seeing that Happy Home Whatever being an actual new 3ds game and not just DLC, I don't see a Wii U Animal Crossing being at E3. I hope I'm wrong though.
 
TheGreatMightyPoo said:
I thought there was a decent chance we would but after seeing that Happy Home Whatever being an actual new 3ds game and not just DLC, I don't see a Wii U Animal Crossing being at E3. I hope I'm wrong though.
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Happy Home Designer struck me as more of a sidegame than anything. I wouldn't even be surprised if it's F2P.
 
I'd love Animal Crossing U! I've put some thought into what can be improved:

- with a higher resolution the camera can be further away, letting us see a lot more of the world at once.

- You could have bigger towns, and much more detailed environment with greater verticality through hills and such.

-Happy home designer? Integrated right into the main game.

-You could have upgradable pockets and equipment letting you catch better bugs and fish easier.

-There can be a lot more NPCs about and the shopping street can be a natural part of the town instead of a separate place.

- Dynamic weather

And of course, just imagine if it could get close to the visuals of the track for Mario Kart 8!
 
I expect it to happen sooner rather than later. Many of the assets are already made, ready and waiting to be used for such a game, and Nintendo have been really pushing the IP as of late. I imagine that the amiibo cards and Happy Home Designer will tie-in with it in some fashion. Perhaps HHD has even been made to test the waters for certain concepts for a future Wii U entry.

As for how different it could be...I'm not certain. The "small village mayor" concept works really well on a handheld, but I could see a console version revolving around a more developed and bustling community with stronger multiplayer integration.
 
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