Animal Crossing+ Japanese Details Revealed

Posted by simoniker on Monday June 16, 2003 @12:12PM from the buffing-up-skylines-bonus-minigame dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an IGN Cube story summarizing the new features in the Japanese expanded re-release of sleeper Gamecube hit Animal Crossing. These include brand new features such as "..upgraded animal designs.. all-new events added.. more than 100 additional items.. visit the island without a GBA.. take photos of village life, store on SD Cards, and print using photo printers", and a number of features previously only found in the US version of the game. Gamers.com has some new screenshots of this release, which follows the pattern of titles such as Kingdom Hearts:Final Mix in exporting US-release improvements back to Japan in a 'special edition'. Although non-Japanese Animal Crossing fans may be looking hopefully for this expansion, a release outside Japan seems unlikely, and the poor Europeans still don't have the original Gamecube version.

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Re:Is this the one where you scan your game cards? by AvantLegion · 2003-06-16 13:08 · Score: 2, Insightful

(Also, how many other ways can game companies squeeze every last cent out of gamers? It's pretty amazing what they've come up with so far.)

How so?
Animal Crossing players have explored every facet of the game and beg for more. The following is very similar to that of The Sims (not surprising, given the similar nature of the 2 games).
I don't think having swipe cards or anything like that is "squeezing every last cent out of gamers". They're nice little low-production-cost extras for the fanatics.