In Edge Online magazine, Aya K. and Katsuya E. talked about the next game in the franchise :
“We have already started thinking about what to do next, but there is no concrete direction yet. First, we need to decide which hardware to develop a new Animal Crossing for, and then we want to use that hardware and find out what it’s capable of and what kind of features it provides. Then we can start thinking of elements of Animal Crossing and how we can realise them using the hardware. So until we discover these new inventions, we will not decide the direction.”
It's hard to believe that work hasn't been undergoing on a new Animal Crossing for a while now. New Leaf has been out in Japan for a year now. What has the Nintendo EAD Group 2 been doing for a year ? Animal Crossing Plaza, to me, was a little project that meant to show players how possibly characters models would look like in HD.
Besides, it's a very startling response from Katsuya Eguchi as the next console to grace the serie is obviously the Wii U (logically).
I really don't know what to make of this interview... If I were to point out points where the Wii U would improve the experience are pretty obvious : the GamePad would be used to manage your inventory, the power of the console would do away with the rolling pinwheel view we have of the world (use instead a Wind Waker free camera view style for example), etc.
“We have already started thinking about what to do next, but there is no concrete direction yet. First, we need to decide which hardware to develop a new Animal Crossing for, and then we want to use that hardware and find out what it’s capable of and what kind of features it provides. Then we can start thinking of elements of Animal Crossing and how we can realise them using the hardware. So until we discover these new inventions, we will not decide the direction.”
It's hard to believe that work hasn't been undergoing on a new Animal Crossing for a while now. New Leaf has been out in Japan for a year now. What has the Nintendo EAD Group 2 been doing for a year ? Animal Crossing Plaza, to me, was a little project that meant to show players how possibly characters models would look like in HD.
Besides, it's a very startling response from Katsuya Eguchi as the next console to grace the serie is obviously the Wii U (logically).
I really don't know what to make of this interview... If I were to point out points where the Wii U would improve the experience are pretty obvious : the GamePad would be used to manage your inventory, the power of the console would do away with the rolling pinwheel view we have of the world (use instead a Wind Waker free camera view style for example), etc.
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