Brewster's Roost

Oh dear – poor Wii U. It just hasn’t got the killer titles to make it a must-have… yet. The 3DS, on the other hand, is selling like hot cakes… mmm, hot cakes! This is no doubt due – at least in part – to the solid catalogue of fantastic games.

Last month, Nintendo not only posted a profit, but they also reported that Animal Crossing: New Leaf has sold more than 5.4 million copies worldwide. This is, of course, very good news for the console and the franchise itself. The better a title performs, the more support Nintendo are likely to give it.

With any luck, Nintendo will take a lesson from all this. They were reluctant to even release the GameCube Animal Crossing in Europe, and it took a lot of fan pressure to convince them otherwise. By the time they gave in and produced a PAL version, most serious gamers had already imported a copy from America. The same goes for the recent re-release of EarthBound. To give you an idea of how long it took for Nintendo to concede, fans were begging for a re-release of the SNES classic since the Gameboy Advanced!

So, for everyone that has been playing Animal Crossing from the start*, who knew their way around an Action Replay, and made their friends play it to see how good it really was… I hope you’ll join me in a big, fat “I TOLD YOU SO!”, to the Big N.

Here’s hoping they’ll pay more attention to us in future.

*Not necessarily including the actual original; the Japan-only ‘Dōbutsu no Mori’ on N64

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