This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Nintendo gives you a pile of trash
If you’ve been doing your due diligence with Animal Crossing: City Folk, know that Nintendo has a full month of activities ahead for October. The first item on the agenda is giving you a nice pile of trash. No, seriously, if you connect your Wii to the internet, you can get a letter from Nintendo with a free pile of leaves attached. It should go wonderfully with that trashcan you have sitting in your house’s corner.
Head past the break for the rest of this week’s content on the Nintendo Channel.
Gallery: Animal Crossing: City Folk
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This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Nintendo gives you a pile of trash originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New DLC makes Animal Crossing avatars look even more punchable
To celebrate the release of Punch-Out!!, Nintendo is offering a gift to European Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City players on Little Mac’s behalf. Is it enough to bring prodigal Crossers back into the Wii game? Well, only those who love headgear. We kind of think the protective boxing equipment looks slightly supervillain-esque, which is a bonus.
From now until June 5, Let’s Go to the City players who have WiiConnect24 on can get a gift of green boxing headgear just for turning the game on and checking their mail. The headgear will be stuffed into a letter. The item has yet to appear on the North American DLC hub, but we’re confident American gamers will be able to protect their avatars’ squishy heads soon.
[Via N-Europe]
New DLC makes Animal Crossing avatars look even more punchable originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 25 May 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NintendoWare Weekly: Calculators, Clocks, and Fish
This week, Nintendo has a double dose of downloads — both on the DSi — for the Animal Crossing fans out there. Complementing Nintendo’s handheld offerings are one new WiiWare game and a C64 title for the Virtual Console. So, quit wasting time here and head past the break to check out this week’s content on the DSi and Wii.
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NintendoWare Weekly: Calculators, Clocks, and Fish originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 04 May 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Analyst: Poor Wii Music, Animal Crossing sales stamina to blame for downturn
Wii sales have been the lowest they’ve ever been in Japan. Is the Japanese public losing interest? Screen Digest analyst Ed Barton told GameBizBlog that the Wii sales downturn is mostly due to the lack of staying power exhibited by Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Music.
Barton says that the continued success of Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii only back up his claim. “These are older games that obviously have shown tremendous stamina, but Nintendo always needs to bring out new ways to drive console sales forward, and we just didn’t see that with Wii Music and City Folk.” Even though both titles sold decently enough (Animal Crossing was one of the region’s top 10 selling games in 2008 and Wii Music debuted with 92,000 units sold in its first week), they lacked the necessary sales stamina of Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii.
He says that there isn’t much hope on the horizon either, despite the imminent release of Monster Hunter 3 on Wii. He warns that trying to transfer the user base from handheld to home console is risky and that the gamble may not pay off for Nintendo. Barton is of the mind that “it won’t have the same level of success that it had on the PSP.”
Analyst: Poor Wii Music, Animal Crossing sales stamina to blame for downturn originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nintendo opens NA Animal Crossing: City Folk DLC hub
North American Animal Crossing fans finally have a place to check for upcoming DLC updates to City Folk. Nintendo has opened an Animal Crossing: City Folk DLC hub site outlining downloadable content and game updates specifically for the NTSC region. A similar site is already available to Japanese gamers.
Currently, the hub lists a special “shamrock hat” (available until March 24) delivered to town via a letter with the attached item with special Spring content coming soon. Let’s hope that the update also means that North American City Folk will get as much cool content as their Japanese counterparts.
[via GoNintendo]
Nintendo opens NA Animal Crossing: City Folk DLC hub originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Missouri Police say adults shouldn’t play Animal Crossing
Son, turn the game box off and come over here. Now, since you turned 18 your mom and I have been meaning to talk with you about your little habit. No, not the smoking or the drinking. Really, we’re fine with all of that. No, what we’re concerned about is the time you spend exchanging friend codes with all those people in Animal Crossing: City Folk. We’ve been talking to Detective Andy Anderson of the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force, who says that he “cannot come up with any legitimate reason that an adult would be playing that particular game.”
Now, heaven knows what you’ve been putting in all of those letters and gift boxes, but Anderson told ABC affiliate KMIZ that you, and others like you, are likely playing Animal Crossing and similar games “for the wrong reasons.” Sure it’s addicting, but it’s also evil, so please, son, do us all a favor and put the controller down and go play something more your age. But before you go, tell your mom to put down that galdarned Peggle and bring me a turkey pot pie. I’m glad we had this little chat.
[Via Game Politics]
Missouri Police say adults shouldn’t play Animal Crossing originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Animal Crossing City Folk for thrifty folk
It’s not too often that a major first-party Nintendo release gets a price drop. That makes today’s Amazon deal of the day, Animal Crossing: City Folk, somewhat of a novelty. If you thought $50 was too high for what seemed like a minimal content upgrade over Wild World, how does $30 sound? We’re guessing it’s going to sound pretty good to a lot of people — enough people that Amazon will run out of stock before the end of the day.
As usual, the person who benefits most from this deal is Tom Nook. Sometime within the 5-8 day Free Super Saver Shipping period, Tom Nook is going to find himself with a veritable army of new indentured residents.
Gallery: Animal Crossing: City Folk
Animal Crossing City Folk for thrifty folk originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December NPD: Slowdown
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It’s not surprising to see that hardware sales rose significantly in December, but what is surprising is the comparatively small progress made by the Wii — only a 5% increase from November, compared to some big gains for the competition. People who are paid a lot more than us predicted the Wii would smash the 3 million sales barrier, but nope. We’re putting this down to a lack of holiday season supply, or November’s figures simply being amazing.
On the other hand, selling 2.15 million of anything in a single month isn’t too shabby!
- DS: 3.04m 
1.47m (94%)
- Wii: 2.15m 110K (5%)
- Xbox 360: 1.44m 604K (72%)
- PSP: 1.02m 599K (142%)
- PS3: 726K 348K (92%)
- PS2: 410K 204K (99%)
December’s best-selling games are past the fold, along with 2008’s top sellers. Spoiler: Nintendo software kicked ass.
Top 10 games of December 2008
1. Wii Play — Wii — Nintendo — 1.46 million
2. Call of Duty: World at War — Xbox 360 — Activision — 1.33 million*
3. Wii Fit – Wii — Nintendo — 999K
4. Mario Kart Wii — Wii — Nintendo — 979K
5. Guitar Hero: World Tour — Wii — Activision — 850K*
6. Gears of War 2 — Xbox 360 — Microsoft — 745K*
7. Left 4 Dead — Xbox 360 — Electronic Arts — 629K
8. Mario Kart — DS — Nintendo — 540K
9. Call of Duty: World at War — PS3 — Activision — 533K
10. Animal Crossing: City Folk — Wii — Nintendo — 497K*
Top 10 games of 2008
1. Wii Play — Wii — Nintendo — 5.28 million
2. Mario Kart Wii — Wii — Nintendo — 5.00 million
3. Wii Fit — Wii — Nintendo — 4.53 million
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl — Wii — Nintendo — 4.17 million
5. Grand Theft Auto IV — Xbox 360 — Take–Two — 3.29 million*
6. Call of Duty: World at War — Xbox 360 — Activision — 2.75 million*
7. Gears of War 2 — Xbox 360 — Microsoft — 2.31 million*
8. Grand Theft Auto IV — PS3 — Take–Two — 1.89 million*
9. Madden NFL ‘09 — Xbox 360 — Electronic Arts — 1.87 million*
10. Mario Kart — DS — Nintendo — 1.65 million
* Includes collector’s, limited, and bundled editions.
December NPD: Slowdown originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Animal Crossing: City Photo Contest
One of the more fun, and less discussed, new gameplay additions in Animal Crossing: City Folk is the ability to take snapshots and save them to an SD card for sharing. Nintendo and their Digicam Print Channel partner, Fujifilm, are taking advantage of the new functionality with a new contest for Japan designed to encourage online photo sharing.
Until January 28, photos uploaded to the special Animal Crossing section of Fuji’s photo sharing site, Fotonoma, will be eligible for entry in a contest. Winners in each of two themes (favorite photos and shots showing off fashion) will receive prizes, including a new Fuji digital camera, a Wiimote and Nunchuk, or Animal Crossing postcards. It sounds like a fun and novel way to interact with other Animal Crossing fans while possibly winning stuff!
Gallery: Animal Crossing: City Folk
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Animal Crossing: City Photo Contest originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wii Warm Up: Crossing into 2009
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Animal Crossing: City Folk was seen as a bit of a disappointment by some longtime Animal Crossing players, due to the fact that it is extremely similar to previous iterations, with a perceived lack of much new content. But the real worth of any Animal Crossing game is revealed by its longevity, and we thought we would query you guys about that as we begin 2009.
Are you still actively participating in your town’s life? If so, how long have you had the game? Do you foresee City Folk becoming a long-lived pastime for you, or will you put it down as soon as something else catches your eye?
Gallery: Animal Crossing: City Folk
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Wii Warm Up: Crossing into 2009 originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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