The countdown to E3 2012 begins now! This year Nintendo will be hosting their press conference on June 5th at 9am in Los Angeles. Nintendo is expected to spill all the juicy details on Animal Crossing 3DS at this year’s E3 press conference. We can expect to hear about the game’s official title, new features, release date, online capabilities and more! Hopefully you’re as excited as I am. : )
Amazon France has updated their product page for Animal Crossing 3DS with a release date of September 28th 2012. I usually don’t report on release dates given by retailers like GameStop but I rarely have seen Amazon put up release dates that were unannounced so I think there’s a chance that this might be true. As usual, it isn’t an official date from Nintendo so don’t count on this date for sure. Sidenote: 55 days until E3 2012 where we’re sure to get new information on AC 3DS!
If you’re like me and the rest of the Animal Crossing fanbase you’ve been waiting a long time for the next Animal Crossing and finally we have a semi-official release window for Animal Crossing 3DS! Straight from the January edition of OMN (Official Nintendo Magazine) in the UK there’s an article detailing most of the new information from September which isn’t that new. However also in this preview is a ETA of Summer 2012! It’s kind of a big deal seeing as most of us have been expecting a holiday release this year. Anyway, if you want to see the entire preview the scans are below. Get hyped and pre-order Animal Crossing 3DS on Amazon!
Here’s the Animal Crossing 3DS Developer Roundtable from last September complete with English subtitles for your enjoyment. In this video you’ll see the developer team at Nintendo EAD answer questions about the game resulting in the most information on Animal Crossing 3DS to date. Get ready for 10 minutes of exciting new information! Here’s a summary below written by myself of the new information:
You are the mayor but you don’t have to play that aspect of the game much. You can sort of ignore it if you want.
Expanded clothing options (ex: shirts and pants because the characters are taller)
Boys can wear skirts
You can customize your town more freely (ex: customizable outside furniture like benches and streetlights)
The beach is greatly expanded
The railroad is back from the Gamecube game
There’s a shopping mall (so… they’ve basically incorporated ideas from the city into the main town)
The villagers height has been modified too. You can really tell the difference between a tall and short villager.
You now have a secretary “Shizu” who’s sort of your assistant since you’re the mayor now
You can take your furniture to shops to be modified
Stuff like changing patterns (ex: sofa cushions with a heart on them)
Before you could change the roof colour but those options have been expanded to walls, fences and even mail posts
Exchange your home design using Streetpass to be displayed as a model home to others
You can view houses of strangers now through Tom Nook
He’s now a real estate agent instead of a shopkeeper!
More media again from the September 2011 Conference! This time we have some screenshots. I have to say at this point the game is shaping up to look amazing and there’s seriously a big improvement over these screenshots and the ones from past times. Check them out below.
Another Nintendo conference, another Animal Crossing 3DS trailer! This time it comes from the Japanese September 3DS Conference. New reveals from this trailer includes multiplayer swimming, tree stumps you can sit on, couches with different patterns, Tom Nook as a real estate agent and more!
Here’s a fresh pack of screenshots for Animal Crossing 3DS from Nintendo! Most of these come from the 2011 trailer however there’s still a few new shots here to browse through. Enjoy.
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The countdown to E3 2012 begins now! This year Nintendo will be hosting their press conference on June 5th at 9am in Los Angeles. Nintendo is expected to spill all the juicy details on Animal Crossing 3DS at this year’s E3 press conference. We can expect to hear about the game’s official title, new features, release date, online capabilities and more! Hopefully you’re as excited as I am. : )
