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This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Nintendo gives you a pile of trash
by David Hinkle 
{ Sep 28th 2009 at 1:16PM } 
Head past the break for the rest of this week's content on the Nintendo Channel.
Gallery: Animal Crossing: City Folk
New DLC makes Animal Crossing avatars look even more punchable
by JC Fletcher { May 25th 2009 at 12:30PM }
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]
NintendoWare Weekly: Calculators, Clocks, and Fish
by David Hinkle { May 4th 2009 at 11:00AM }
Analyst: Poor Wii Music, Animal Crossing sales stamina to blame for downturn
by David Hinkle { Apr 16th 2009 at 1:00PM }
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."
Nintendo opens NA Animal Crossing: City Folk DLC hub
by Xav de Matos { Mar 22nd 2009 at 5:00PM }
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]
Missouri Police say adults shouldn't play Animal Crossing
by Jason Dobson { Mar 18th 2009 at 10:10AM }
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]
Animal Crossing City Folk for thrifty folk
by JC Fletcher { Mar 13th 2009 at 11:30AM }
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
December NPD: Slowdown
by Chris Greenhough { Jan 15th 2009 at 9:00PM }
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.
Animal Crossing: City Photo Contest
by JC Fletcher { Jan 5th 2009 at 3:00PM }
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
[Via Inside-Games]
Wii Warm Up: Crossing into 2009
by JC Fletcher { Jan 3rd 2009 at 10:30AM }
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
[Image via Technofranki]
Fanswag: Animal Crossing goes to ...
by Joystiq Staff { Dec 29th 2008 at 9:00PM }
- Beerbandit, who loves to fish
Gallery: Animal Crossing: City Folk
Target puts select titles on sale
by David Hinkle { Dec 26th 2008 at 4:35PM }
Little Magician's Magic Name Change
by JC Fletcher { Dec 26th 2008 at 1:30PM }
IGN sneaked a preview and a bunch of videos out for Little Magician's Magic Adventure right before the holidays, and we didn't want to miss the chance to talk about it or to share it with any of you who might not have seen it. The game has another new name for North America: Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times, and IGN's preview makes it sound like a much deeper take on its obvious inspiration, Animal Crossing.
The pictograms that are used to string together spells can also be used to converse with neighbors: "Slide in the "greetings" tile and the characters will say hello back. Get more complex though, and the system allows you to combine these, by say, adding a greeting and then a weather icon to, at least in theory, talk about the weather with a character."
Random day-to-day gameplay is only part of it: the game includes 52 quests, one a week, that use the magic your character learns in school. We're very quickly becoming big fans of this thing! The first video footage is above, and you can see more (or this in a larger window) at IGN.
Gallery: Little Magician's Magic Adventure
Wii Warm Up: Saturday special
by David Hinkle { Dec 23rd 2008 at 8:00AM }
With Animal Crossing: City Folk having released for awhile now, we were wondering how many of you managed to catch a performance or two by the one they call K.K. Slider. We used to catch his Saturday concerts all of the time in Animal Crossing: Wild World, so we're anxious to hear your thoughts on the dog's performances in the new game. So, have you caught a show yet? Thoughts?
Reminder: Animal Crossing still up for grabs
by Joystiq Staff { Dec 19th 2008 at 9:00PM }
Best of luck to you all and, remember: this contest ends Sunday night and you can enter once each day.
