Topic: Your Guess as to this year's surprise E3 Wii U Announcement(s)

What new features are there rumored to be in the new Animal Crossing? A greater emphasis on online I imagine?

I assume Amiibo compatibility will be included so Mario, Link, etc. can move into your town.

I would guess the ability to move to a friends town and become a normal character in their game. You can ask them for help or ask them for a particular item, and they can do the same to you just they are the mayor and so only they can organize the town how they want, you just live there and pay for things lol

Please no Animal Crossing. Not interested in the franchise at all.

So because you don't like it, no one else should have it?

I'm totally being selfish here, but if they are making an Animal Crossing for Wii U, it means that there is some other game that they didn't make. I'd rather it be that other game.

Also, I think the series really belongs on handhelds at this point.

They should make a Tomodachi Life Wii U game instead.

Also I think the series belongs on Home Consoles, it is not a game I can boot up and play for 5 minutes, play sessions normally have to be about a hour, which is pretty bad for a device that has 3 hour battery life.

Apparently Kyoto EAD 2 is the sole developer for Splatoon which... which makes no sense, frankly. They've only really made the 'Wii' games and Animal Crossing to date. They must've got some new members, otherwise I don't see how a casual game dev can suddenly turn into a dev that makes action-based platform / shooters...

That doesn't rule out the developers having experience with action games in either education, hobby projects or previous work. But as Splatoon seems like a big title for Nintendo it would be logical that they've put some extra people on it(with relevant experience).

My guess is the same as every year. And every year I cry remembering F-Zero is dead and instead enjoy the other cool new stuff Nintendo reveals.

But this time Nintendo makes the obvious troll move, start out in Port Town and then reveal it's part of Mario Kart 8 DLC Pack 3/4.

If it comes with 250cc things are improving slowly.

The dev team that works on Animal Crossing doesn't work on a lot of exciting stuff, except for Splatoon now, but they could probably squeeze in an Animal Crossing game in 2016 as well.

I would happily play a "Wii" series game over Animal Crossing.

I hate the whole "IF THEY MAKE THIS THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE SO I'M GOING TO HATE THIS" mindset some gamers have. They have more than one group working on projects you know. Sometimes I wish gaming companies ignored fans and just made the games that they wanted to make, because fans don't know crap.

Well spoken

They do, but they only have so many groups working and so much space in the release schedule.

Also, if the Wii U were like the 3DS had had an enormous backcatalog of great games (hence why I was okay with stuff like Mario Golf: World Tour, again not for me), I wouldn't mind, but the Wii U has a kiddie pool sized library. Each game that's not for me dilutes the library significantly, and each great game improves the library significantly

Except the fans are the ones buying their games, so making what they want without any regard for consumer demand is financial suicide.

Oh-ho-hoo, that's be cruel; deliciously so. That's practically a Final Fantasy 7 Remaster-level troll. But, hey, more Mario Kart DLC is never a bad thing (and the least they could do would be to add Captain Falcon).

I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see more DLC because, even though it'd be a lot of DLC for one game, Mario Kart 8 is the Wii U's second best selling game. That and I imagine that there aren't many unannounced games yet to be released on Wii U. I'm anticipate that development for games for the next console has already started, so I could see additional Mario Kart DLC to appease fans.

I actually prefer the Pro Controller. Buuuut I only have 1 pro controller and 4 GC controllers and an adapter. It'd be nice to have extra non-Wiimotes for MK8 and other games without breaking the bank on more Pro Controllers.

I don't think the Wii U is done just yet, there's plenty of IPs that haven't shown up yet. We still don't have:

-Metroid (confirmed to be in development)
-Animal Crossing
-Paper Mario
-main series Kirby (Return to Dreamland/Triple Deluxe style game)
-Mario sports
-Wario platformer
-Mario collectathon (we know there's some kind of Mario game in development, it could be this)

So there's plenty they could still do with the Wii U, I don't think the library is going to be that sparse (well, not much more than usual that is). I think several developers at this point are starting to shift to next gen, but some of them are probably also still working on 8th gen games.