Animal Crossing 3D ‘Won’t Rely On DLC’

Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 3DS won’t be reliant on downloadable content says Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Despite the game having the potential of multiple pieces of downloadable content, Iwata says that this won’t be the case. Animal Crossing 3D will obviously have some DLC but the majority of the content will be on the cartridge when you purchase the game later this year.

“We will continue to make efforts to avoid such misunderstandings as, “the next ‘Animal Crossing’ might be a game which relies upon add-on content sales.”

Animal Crossing 3D, Luigi’s Mansion 2 And Paper Mario 3D Are All Coming This Year

Nintendo has reconfirmed that Animal Crossing 3D, Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Paper Mario 3D are all heading to the Nintendo 3DS this year in Japan. The company wouldn’t announce specific dates for these eagerly awaited titles other than they’re scheduled for a 2012 release. We should hear about Western release dates at this years E3 event in June.

Nintendo 3DS: Nintendo Talk Animal Crossing For The Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo of Japan has posted a developer roundtable for the highly anticipated Animal Crossing 3D for the Nintendo 3DS. During the roundtable the developers behind the Animal Crossing franchise discuss the features that the Animal Crossing community wish to see in the new game. What would you personally like to see featured in the 3DS game?

Nintendo 3DS: Super Mario 3D, Mario Kart 3D Or Animal Crossing 3D Coming To Nintendo 3DS This Fiscal Year

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors and analysts that Nintendo hopes to have Super Mario 3D, Mario Kart 3D or Animal Crossing 3D on store shelves worldwide this fiscal year.

Nintendo are hoping to sell at least 16 million Nintendo 3DS consoles within the first year. Satoru Iwata believes that the only way the company is going to do that is if it launches at least two of these three highly anticipated software titles.

“We want the other companies to be successful. In order to accomplish this goal, we would like to decide on the dates after we know the release plans of other companies’ games so that we are able to consider how we can maximize the sales of our titles without affecting the sales of other companies in the short term.”

With regard to Super Mario and Mario Kart specifically, he added: “However, especially for the two titles I introduced today, which are the new iterations of “Mario Kart” and “Super Mario,” I did not talk about them with the image of launching them in the next fiscal year or thereafter, so please understand it in that way.”

- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata

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