Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Gets A Switch-Shaped Bonus Item

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Saw this in a datamine a few days back. Nintendo, why do you playing with my heart?!?! I need my next main series Animal Crossing game!

I want cars, mopeds, scooters, skateboards, rollerskates, bicycles, in Animal Crossing, I am tired of walking so much. This would also lead to cool racing mini games like the bug hunt and fishing contests.

Come on Nintendo, announce Animal Crossing Switch already! You're allowed to announce it before E3, I'll forgive you!

we need more gamecube games on switch then im happy lol.

I understand Animal Crossing is a hard game to make (translation wise), but Nintendo has to know we all are wanting a new installment.

The update to New Leaf doesn't count either!!!

I deleted this game a few weeks ago due to the anticipation of a proper game being revealed in the near future, out of all the games I want on Switch a new Animal Crossing is near the top. I want to create new memories with my bro and our animal friends!

@BenAV
Yeah surely it's coming sometime soon. Every entry has sold well, especially New Leaf. It still hits the charts sometimes. And the huge backlash they got from the Amiibo Festival game will tell them that gamers are passionate for a traditional Animal Crossing game.

I have a feeling Animal Crossing for Switch will be revealed at E3.

How many loot boxes do you have to open to get this

@bmovietv Pocket Camp introduced fast travel between locations. On the one hand it's nice not to have to walk everywhere, but you do lose a lot of the exploration and gathering aspects.

@HydroSeptr the Switch console item is actually free for just logging on! What the article doesn’t mention is that there are a bunch of other new items in the bunch that are in the loot boxes though. The Switch is the only free one

I would love to see animal crossing announced for switch at E3!

As a big Pokémon Go fan, I am very happy to ask... do people still play this game? I absolutely adore Animal Crossing but Pocket Camp is far too shallow & slow to keep real AC fans happy for more than a few weeks.

We really need a real Animal Crossing on the Switch soon... but are they really about to do that when they've just added a new revenue stream to Pocket Camp (look boxes)? I'd expect Pocket Camp to all but die out once a real AC is released on the Switch.

I'm an AC fan-boy/addict and I gave up on Pocket Camp a long time ago. Too shallow for one, and it really made me want a new entry for the switch too badly.

This better be foreshadowing and not hardcore trolling! I'll snap!

We won't hear about AC Switch at E3, but there will be a Direct after that when they announce a new one. My uncle at Nintendo told me so.

I'm not enjoying the direction that Pocket Camp is going in. It lacked features on release and it's taken until now to have a decent amount of things to do, but now they've added loot boxes. And even items that need leaf tickets have been added in much larger amounts.
I was hoping we could play this to it's fullest for free but I guess those days are over...

Animal Crossing is in my top 3 most wanted Switch games. Alongside Pokemon and Fire Emblem, and Animal Crossing is the only one, sadly, not confirmed.

Pocket Camp is a joke. I tried playing it, and it just feels like a massively dumbed down experience. I'd just go back and play New Leaf in that case.

@Heavyarms55 Agreed. Pocket Camp is a joke. Hopefully it’s just the bandaid in place until a new, better Animal Crossing is released for Switch.

I can’t say Animal Crossing is on my dream Switch list but I think that’s because no AC game since the original GameCube version has given me the warm fuzzies.

@BenAV Well it might as well be foreshadowing since they did say we could connect the app to a mainline game and that feature hasn’t been shown yet.

@Mamabear It was always meant to be additional content to pair with a mainline game, but it doesn’t connect with New Leaf so it makes you wonder.

@MotaroRIP Terrible and too shallow for my taste too.

Well if you look at previous Animal Crossing release dates, the DS & 3DS installments launched only a year after their respective console's release, and the Wii one 2 years later. There's a very good chance a Switch Animal Crossing could be released this year, or at the very least revealed.

"What? You wanted an Animal Crossing on Switch? Oh, sorry, we thought you said you wanted a Switch on Animal Crossing..."

I can't shake the feeling Nintendo may be thinking 'We could continue to rake in silly money off this half-assed phone game which offers a fraction of the content OR we could put time and money into a full title, diverting the main-line fans off onto a game that costs us more and makes us less and then they won't be using the phone game to fill their AC void losing us even more money!'...I think the likes of EA have broken me

@TheCurator I'm glad I'm not the only one. I didn't like the overall feeling that I had to buy friends (which I know is kind of how they all are but it felt colder in this title).

@Timbojay Sadly I have the same worries, although they're allegedly not making as much of a profit as they had hoped they would off of ANY mobile games. In my particular case I'd be more likely to participate in the mobile game if it had connectivity to AC Switch.

@MotaroRIP Same. I also feel AC isn't about graphics, so personally, I'd be happy with them reusing the 3DS assets (maybe upping the texture resolution) and using the simpler models as a way to add a LOT more content to the game on top of what was in the 3DS game to build a grander scale game. I just hope if/when we get a Switch AC the Mayor system is implemented in a more worthwhile way. Always felt like there was such potential there but fell short and was more a gimmick