Other than the exciting Pikmin 3 announcement Nintendo’s E3 2008 Developer Roundtable presented more info on Animal Crossing, Wii Music, and Wii Sports Resort. Thankfully more details concerning City Folk’s online abilities were given including support for Animal Crossing Wild World! Hit the jump for a list of AC details.
-Holidays such as Halloween, Easter, and others have returned.
-Wiiconnect24 is used extensively including the ability to receive new items (cloths, patterns, furniture, etc…) through WFC.
-These downloadable items are not prebuilt into the game disk. DLC is all fresh, and new.
-The new city portion of AC consists of a salon, auction house, fashion designer, happy room academy, and a comedy theater. A bus transports you between town and city.
-WiiSpeak confirmed once again.
-New ways to design your cloths. You can now design the front, back, and sleeves of shirts. The player can then take a snap shot of the clothing and send it to a SD card, Wii message board to send to friends. Also reveals that you can send these images to cell phones, and computers…details unknown.
-Group disconnection from the DS version confirmed. (Aka: When one person drops from a wifi session, everyone is dumped.)
-Wild World support! You can transfer your character and items from the DS version to City Folk. Also if you don’t have Wifi at your house you can transfer your City Folk data to your DS, and dump it to your friends Wii at another location.
-No NES games included like the GC version (Duh), and Wii weather channel not supported, because it would limit the players seasonal experience.
Awesome. Especially about the improved clothes making. That was the most frustrating part of the DS and GC game for me.
Aww, I was kinda hoping they would let you play your virtual console games from within the game. Sure it would be superfluous, but so cool at the same time!
Dumping everyone when one person disconnects? That was the most irritating part of AC:WW’s online.
-Wild World support! You can transfer your character and items from the DS version to City Folk.
Oh god… enjoy the hacking!
What is the fun in sending all the stuff from Wild World to City Folk which is bound to be the stuff that you can do in City Folk only?
The NES games were my favorite part of the GC version, I’ll miss them.
@ atlantis
the stuff is prolly new and say you got this really cool item which is hard to get, then tranfer it to the Wii to keep the game going there
This will be the first animal crossing I will ever play. I’m glad that I missed the last 3 so this experience will be nice and fresh for my fiance’ and I.
As far as playing old nintendo games through AC , we haven’t heard all the details of this game yet. Wouldn’t suprise me if there was a feature that allowed you to play your own virtual consle games from within AC somehow in lieu of that feature in past games.
Excitement and disappointment…
I want to go home right now and clean up my “game” in Wild World, stock up on items I know I’ll want on my Wii village…That is the best thing City Folk is offering right now.
However, it sucks about being disconnected. I’ve been getting disconnected a LOT lately (Dr. Mario Online, mainly). Also, it would have been so cool to have even just NES games only available to play on WiFi, somehow hack up net play for two player games. If Animal Crossing was the only conduit for this functionality, Nintendo could guarantee a whole new audience for the Animal Crossing franchise who dislike its cuteness, but want to play classic NES games with their friends.
VC games could even be like trophies in your house’s game room, a la Playstation Home’s trophies, but more like “Look at all the money I’ve spent on Wii points!”
Cloths? You can get swatches of cloth?
I assume then, that you can sew them into clothes.
DAMN!
My town was just erased by accident two weeks ago!!
I’m SOOOO sad!!!
Yay! The holidays are back!!! That absolutely ruined the DS version for me.
Is it just me or did Nintendo just go from extremely restrictive internet policy to a completely uncensored system?
So…we have tv’s within the game, why not let us buy consoles from Nook, then play VC games within the game? it would be at a lower resolution and could finally offer us a chance to play multiplayer VC games online since they wouldn’t put that into VC games.
I’m so happy that you can take the data from your DS version! I was worried I was going to have to start over again. I think it’s great you can put your miis face on your AC person. I REALLY want it!!!!
Schwiggity. Now I can use all my hacked crap from the DS version.