Why haven't we heard anything on a Animal Crossing game for Wii U ?

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The Wii U will turn 3 in the last week of November 2015. Yet, it's February 2015 and we haven't heard a single thing on a potential Animal Crossing. Yes, the director behind Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Aya Kyogoku posted about a new Information or Announcement Community for the Animal Crossing Miiverse community and Minamoto said last November that Nintendo was thinking of producing amiibos as cards (with cheaper production costs) and he gave the example of Animal Crossing as a game that could use that sort of medium. But nothing as of yet concrete.

I've always enjoyed my 'Animal Crossings' better on a big screen, at home. Sure, I liked it on the 3DS and on the DS, but with a tiny pixelated screen (Nintendo handhelds screens look horrible when compared to an iPhone, an iPad or a Macbook Pro with retina displays), it really isn't as satisfying. I bought the Wii U back in June 2013 and I think it is the system I like the most since... the SNES. One of the reasons I bought the Wii U is I was looking forward an Animal Crossing game for it.

I'm afraid Nintendo might skip the Wii U with the Animal Crossing series. I'm pretty sure the company will announce a successor to the 3DS at this year's E3 with a scheduled release date somewhere in early to mid 2016. By then, the 3DS will be 5 years old ! And one of the title they could announce for the new handheld console could be a new Animal Crossing game. With all the ressources going to the development of a new Animal Crossing for the new handheld console, I'd be depressed to see the Wii U getting left behind on the Animal Crossing forefront.

What do you guys think ?
 
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I don't want ac wii u. I only want it for 3ds make another 3ds game ;(
 
I guess I feel mixed about it. I feel like I'm able to play AC more on my 3DS because I can just whip it out whenever and wherever whereas a console I'm restricted at home. At the same time, it might offer more possibilities that couldn't be done on the 3DS. I really don't care how long they take for the next game as long as it's just as amazing as New Leaf (with some improvements).
 
There was a news story rather recently about how Japan's gaming companies were turning more and more to handheld games, simply because transport is such a big thing in Japan; more and more people are travelling than they are at home. Like, taking the train to work/school, etc.. I imagine that the new AC will probably need to be for either the 3DS only or both the 3DS and the Wii-U! It wouldn't really make sense to release it only for the Wii-U, especially since not so many people have it.

Unless, of course, Nintendo wants more people to buy the Wii-U.
 
Information will come out soon enough. Remember, they have historically taken at least three years between games and NL was only released worldwide a year and a half ago!
 
Because they're working on Splatoon.
I agree, I think we'll be hearing about the announcement of a new AC game mid-year.

I believe they have already begun working on it but are just keeping quiet until Splatoon is out. We also have the MK8 DLC pack coming out in May, although I haven't heard anything of it since, I expect to see the trailer for that soon. Either they'll announce them at the same time or they'll hold off a few months before they announce the next instalment of AC.

The game will probably release a year after its announcement.
 
Also, the 3DS is not gonna be 3, that happened last March. It'll be 5.

Oh wow ! What a typo... I corrected it.

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Information will come out soon enough. Remember, they have historically taken at least three years between games and NL was only released worldwide a year and a half ago!

The bulk of the work has been completed on Animal Crossing: New Leaf around october 2012. They then tested it for bugs until the release date of November 2012 in Japan. That's 2 years and a half ago. The team had moved on to other project from that point on. Nintendo of America treehouse continued working on it, handling the translation to English, French and Spanish until June 2013. Nintendo of Europe took to translating the game to German and Italian during that time, also.
 
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When i was playing City Folk and the ACNL came out for 3DS I didn't have a 3DS and i couldn't really afford one either because I was still a student and I kept telling myself "you don't really need the new one, they never really change THAT much and besides this City Folk game is on the big-screen it's much easier for catching bugs and for viewing in general.
But then people kept talking about the new game and all the new features and then I found myself browsing through the game guide at the store and I saw that there were new awesome items and you could customize them and ... i asked my mommy to buy me a 3DS for Xmas

And then a few months later I decided to see how my old animal crossing City Folk pals were doing and went back to the wii and it looked HORRIBLE the player characters had HUGE squished flattened heads with no neck area on squat little bodies even the animals looked like their bodies had been squished down as if the tiny animal town was under the effects of a higher gravitational pull like one earth it's 3.19 and there it was 6 or something it was terrible.

So I don't really care what screen it's on now as long as it looks good, and with the DS i can carry it around and get streetpass tags and see other people's houses and towns in dreams and it's much easier to use online and if I visit someone I don't have to worry that they've got a keyboard or a mircophone while I'm typing by poorly aiming a wiimote at an on-screen keyboard. And i can play in the car, or in a waiting room or on the bus or the train or in flight or at my relative's house before bed to unwind from the stressful visit
 
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Shigeru Miyamoto has stated that Nintendo is already working on a new console that is going to replace the Wii U,so it's possible that the next AC game will bypass the Wii U and move on to the new console.
 
Shigeru Miyamoto has stated that Nintendo is already working on a new console that is going to replace the Wii U,so it's possible that the next AC game will bypass the Wii U and move on to the new console.
Good I haven't bothered to get a Wii U, i'm not even slightly interested
 
I don't care what platform it's on, I just want all Beardo all the time.
 
I'd love to get Justin or Jeff's take on that, the forum owner and admin.
 
I still hope the next Animal Crossing will be a portable game. The home console is just so limiting, you can only play at home. I?m very curious what Nintendo will announce in the future.
 
We haven't had New Leaf that long, you know. I think we should stick to what we've got and wait a couple more years for a new Animal Crossing game.
 
We haven't had New Leaf that long, you know. I think we should stick to what we've got and wait a couple more years for a new Animal Crossing game.

Uh, Japan got acnl in 2012. I'd be REALLY surprised if they hadn't already been working on a new one.

Also, yes, the portability with the wii u is a big problem. But for that dk vs mario game it has cross buy capabilities, if you buy the game for the wii u, you also get it on your ds for free, and the same goes for when you buy it for ds, you get the wii u copy free. So my guess is that they will do this, id be surprised if they didn't. Because of this, i highly doubt they will skip the wii u entirely (since they said they were working on a new console) i am guessing they will still release it for the wii u nonetheless, won't even matter tbh because of the cross buy function. Dont have a wii u? Thats fine, you can still play it on your ds. Have they even said when the new console will be finished? If i can guess I'd say not anytime soon. More than likely we'll get more info regarding acnl and the new console as e3 approaches.
 
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