Happy Home Designer set to outsell City Folk's lifetime sales!!

[pika62221]

Happy Home Designer came out just over a year ago in Japan, and as reported through June 30, 2016, was just over 3 million sold, and City Folk's last report had it at 3.38 million in 2010. I'm sure that's gone up after the Select re-release, but even if it's over 4 million, that's less than a million away for HHD! Should it actually pass CF, it'll be the 3rd highest selling in the series to Wild World and New Leaf, which should put an end to the debate as to which version of the series the majority of fans want to play. I saw old polls on this where it was something like a staggering 90+% wanted it on handhelds, which is why a spin-off game has not only surpassed the original, but stands a great chance at outselling the Wii version too, which should also end the debate with those saying CF sold poorly because it was a "poor port of Wild World" (those who've played the entire series from the beginning can tell CF is more of a mixture of WW and GC with about 20% taken from the original, 70% from WW, and 10% new), but HHD is even worse than a port, it's a spin-off that's ONLY decorating!! Since it's on a handheld though, even with a much smaller install base than the Wii, it stands a better chance at outselling it.

 

[Xara]

wow

well...a fairly significant amount of the fanbase really prefer animal crossing games to be on handheld consoles (me being one of those people), so i'm not too surprised, even if hhd is only for decorating.

i never played hhd, so maybe my opinion doesn't count, but hhd had a lot of decorating options that none of the other games did, as fair as i'm concerned. it gave players more options, some they couldn't find in new leaf, and some they definitely couldn't find in the gamecube version, wild world or city folk.

but hhd being on a handheld console definitely does give it a better chance at outselling city folk, with or without the extra and new decoration options

 

[Envy]

Well, serves them right. City Folk was a terrible AC game. Happy Home Designer is a good spin-off. Hopefully Nintendo will know in the future to make good spin-offs, instead of throwing together watered down versions of the previous handheld title for the console.

 

[Mink777]

This was sad news to me. ACCF was a great game...

- - - Post Merge - - -

Well, serves them right. City Folk was a terrible AC game. Happy Home Designer is a good spin-off. Hopefully Nintendo will know in the future to make good spin-offs, instead of throwing together watered down versions of the previous handheld title for the console.

How the heck was City Folk a terrible game?

 

[LinkToTheWorld]

City folk wasn't my favourite game but I wouldn't say it was terrible either. I'm not surprised that home designer is set to outsell it, really. I personally prefer ACNL over both of those. To me, home designer just doesn't have enough in it and they've just used the AC name to boost its popularity. They would have done better to incorporate it into a new leaf type game, although I know a new on wont be released for a bit yet and when it is it will most likely be for the NX.
I always preferred handheld animal crossing games over console versions, though. Not sure why. But that's another reason I'm looking forward to the mobile game coming out

 

[Corrie]

City Folk was fine but I didn't play it that much because it was on the Wii. Rarely did I ever sit down and play on it. I prefer handhelds for Animal Crossing because I like that you can play it on the go. That's why I played Wild World way more, even after City Folk came out.

 

[Bowie]

City Folk will always be the best game in the series to me.