Release Date / Game Reveal Timing Speculation and Discussion

[Shellzilla_515]

I'm thinking of somewhere in December. I mean, NL was released during the Summer, the original was released in spring, WW and CF released during mid fall judging from those initial release dates. Nintendo has yet to release a game from this franchise in winter. We really don't know anything else at this point other than the fact that it's gonna release next year unless they delay it. Nintendo themselves always have a trick up their sleeve.

 

[Byngo]

wouldn’t it be a smart move for nintendo to release ac in q2/q3 rather than q4 when a lot of other big games are being released? that way ac would get the attention it desveres and it’s sales wouldn’t be impeded. idk

if it’s not out by Sep 2019, id say it’s not coming til q2/q3 2020

 

[Justin]

Programming note: I have merged the two big release date / timing threads that were ongoing into this single thread and given it a sticky as it's likely to be one of the main topics until we have more information. Please keep discussion / speculation of the game's release timing to this thread.

 

[Aozz202x]

Im thinking at least Winter 2019 (Q4).

 

[Jake]

I want to say June because that's when New Leaf released, but I'm not too sure. Nintendo have a good record lately of only revealing games that are coming out soon (par Metroid, Fire Emblem and Yoshi), so I don't expect it to release any later than August/September. But who knows really. Ideally I'd love a Q2/3 release date which I think is most likely. No way will it be a Q1 release, and Q4 will likely have Pokemon and Metroid released.

 

[Mink777]

Well, Summer for Japan, but Fall for NA and EU.

 

[Snowfell]

I hope it releases in summer like acnl did, mostly because that's a good season to make bells in, but I think it'll probably be later like in November.

 

[Locket]

i really feel like it'll be a later spring release but i really don't know
we weren't really given anything besides "2019" but i do feel like a late Q2

 

[tsukune_713]

i really think itll be around e3 next year so in mid june or so is my guess

 

[Junalt]

I hope it?ll be in Q2 because that?s the earliest I could realistically see it happening. But in all likelihood, I think it?ll be in Q4 based on no footage etc. I will take anything as long as it?s still 2019! Only worried it will be delayed to 2020. Pokemon will be releasing end of next year as well so both release dates probably will be spaced out a bit.

 

[Junee]

I'm 99.9% sure it won't be out until after E3 and I hope it will be out before October. I just hope we get some buffer time to settle in before we have to deal with big back to back holidays.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I would assume that it will be released sometime between September of 2019 to June in 2020.

What I do hope is that if all regions can get Animal Crossing at once, not just Japan first. It?s getting more popular here.

 

[Tri]

Isn't it a tradition for the Japanese releases to be in November? I too hope they take the Pokemon route and go for an international release day.

 

[Lucas4080]

We've waited 6 years, a little extra isn't going to hurt at this point

Yeah, if we've lasted six years another year wouldn't hurt at all.

 

[TheRealProcyon]

I think it will get a late summer/fall release. It'd be after E3 and before the Holidays to make it so people won't have to wait too long. I do think they worked on it quite a while already, which means a release could even be done Q2 if they do a lot of Direct presentations.

 

[sej]

i think its going to be late summer/early autumn, i can wait.

 

[Hat']

I really think that the Switch borught a new way of releasing game. They'll probably release it in May-July in every country.
Again that's what I think and maybe my hopes are too high but they made us wait a long time so I think they just wanted to be sure the game was in a decent state to be announced.

 

[cornimer]

I think it will be released in November. Not only is it realistic given when the game was announced, but Wild World, City Folk, New Leaf and Pocket Camp were all initially released in November (although countries outside of Japan got some of them later)

 

[TheRealProcyon]

I think it will be released in November. Not only is it realistic given when the game was announced, but Wild World, City Folk, New Leaf and Pocket Camp were all initially released in November (although countries outside of Japan got some of them later)

New Leaf was a 3DS release game IIRC.

 

[smonikkims]

^Do you mean New Leaf was a launch game? It wasn't, sadly. It was announced close to the beginning of the 3DS life cycle but wasn't released for ages after that.