Release Date / Game Reveal Timing Speculation and Discussion

[drowningfairies]

I'm thinking it will be E3 when we hear news on it. Idk my hopes aren't up for it by no means.
It seems like it could be their big thing at E3, however.

 

[Mink777]

I'm thinking it will be E3 when we hear news on it. Idk my hopes aren't up for it by no means.
It seems like it could be their big thing at E3, however.

If there is nothing by the end of the e3 presentation, I will never buy a Nintendo product again.

 

[EpicGamer12]

If there is nothing by the end of the e3 presentation, I will never buy a Nintendo product again.

Don't you think that is a bit extreme? Nintendo does not owe you information about the game. The only reason Nintendo puts out information about upcoming games is to raise awareness that it is releasing soon, generate hype, and increase sales.

 

[Warrior]

I'm pretty sure we need to see something mid april. There's a nindies tomorrow, and all nindies in the switch era basically had a direct two weeks before, or two weeks after. I think we'll likely get a reggie send off, and another animal crossing teaser in mid april, with more info at e3. But honestly animal crossing is not in a million years a blow out e3 game. It's incredibly popular, but e3 isn't the right enviroment for it. Think about it this way, stardew valley is one of the most popular switch titles, but if the stardew valley multiplayer update was shown off at e3, and something like a smash bros dlc was absent, people wouldn't be happy.

 

[drowningfairies]

Mid April would be a good bet.
I just stated E3 because past titles were shown then, so I think it would be a good environment for ACS.

All in all, we'll more than likely hear something soon, hopefully.

 

[Lancelot]

Is E3 very popular in Japan?

 

[Amilee]

IF it will come out this year they will probably show gameplay in the e3 treehouse thing.
but i would bet that we get a direct in april (doesnt have to be animal crossing only)

 

[SensaiGallade]

Nintendo of America tweeted this, so maybe April 15th is the day we learn more? i'm gripping at straws here plz give us something

 

[Khaelis]

Nintendo of America tweeted this, so maybe April 15th is the day we learn more? i'm gripping at straws here plz give us something

Honestly, you're gripping at too much. It is a render of Tom Nook I've never seen, though... I honestly would not expect anything until E3.

 

[Neechan]

Nintendo of America tweeted this, so maybe April 15th is the day we learn more? i'm gripping at straws here plz give us something

Honestly, I don't know if this has been said, but it seems kinda off that they would use a render of Tom Nook for this tweet about tax returns when they could have easily used a mario render in place of this...

 

[Justin]

It's an Amiibo Festival render, by the way. We're using it in the Bell Boom Week banner actually!

But no, I don't think it means anything. Grasping at straws IMO. Especially because they wouldn't only hint at it to the US audience and exclude Japan.

 

[Khaelis]

It's an Amiibo Festival render

Would explain why I never seen it before, I kinda just ignored everything related to this title..

 

[Blue Cup]

an interesting outcome that would never happen would be they show it off at E3 and pull the ?you can download it right now!!?, chaos will occur - cars stop - people go wild - even newborns rush to download it

but what I actually think is it?ll get delayed into 2020 sadly lol

That would absolutely destroy their servers, but it'd be extremely fun to watch. Dropping the digital version out of nowhere, then releasing the physical version a few weeks later is something that movie studios have been doing for years now, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. But I don't think too many developers have adopted the practice.

If there is nothing by the end of the e3 presentation, I will never buy a Nintendo product again.

Calm down, it's a video game.

 

[WarpDogsVG]

It's getting increasingly weird we haven't heard anything about this. No title, screenshots, nada. I assume this'll be their big E3 game but using their other "big E3 games" as a model (BotW, Odyssey, etc.) we should have really seen at least one reveal trailer by this point

 

[Sweetley]

It's getting increasingly weird we haven't heard anything about this. No title, screenshots, nada. I assume this'll be their big E3 game but using their other "big E3 games" as a model (BotW, Odyssey, etc.) we should have really seen at least one reveal trailer by this point

Maybe we will get finally some informations in April? Maybe that weird tweet with Nook and the taxes
was in fact a hint that something will happen or coming? I do hope for any informations before the E3,
at least a teaser trailer or some artwork, whatever, anything would be really nice!

 

[Mr. Cat]

There will, at the very least, be a Direct or something in April. We were promised DLC with Joker in it by April, so that still needs to be addressed.

 

[LambdaDelta]

It's getting increasingly weird we haven't heard anything about this. No title, screenshots, nada. I assume this'll be their big E3 game but using their other "big E3 games" as a model (BotW, Odyssey, etc.) we should have really seen at least one reveal trailer by this point

tons of games have an information drought early in being publicly known like this one though

it's not weird, you're just impatient

 

[cabbagecrossing]

Not to add to the conspiracies on here, but the current event in pocket camp running through April is titled "A Blooming Announcement"...

 

[Paperboy012305]

Not to add to the conspiracies on here, but the current event in pocket camp running through April is titled "A Blooming Announcement"...

That’s just Pocket Camp. The game doesn’t interfere with the actual game except for the fact that it’s being used for something for AC Switch.

There will be something AC Switch related soon, but probably not until E3. Most likely because this is A: A big title, and B: the highlight of this year’s big title release. Last year’s was Smash Ultimate so it’s no doubt this will fall the same way Smash did.

 

[Blue Cup]

I wondered about that Pocket Camp event myself. Their goal with their mobile games has always been the been to drive up interest in their mainline stuff, so what better way than to advertise the big reveal of what will inevitably be the biggest Animal Crossing game to date in the game that currently has the biggest audience.

But then again, maybe not. Nintendo works in mysterious ways and even I, whom has followed Nintendo for 25+ years am constantly being surprised by their change in tactics. I never would have predicted that we would have gone six months and one major Direct and STILL not know a thing about the new game, but alas here we are.

Gotta love 'em.