Nintendo brings Animal Crossing to Europe News
GameCube News by Tom Bramwell
Nintendo of Europe has announced plans to release Animal Crossing in Europe in typically understated fashion, sliding a printed press release into our freebie bags at today's press conference in Los Angeles confirming the news. Cube owners will be able to pick up a PAL copy of the game on September 24th.
Ignoring for a moment the disgracefully long wait since the game's original release in the States, we should note that the release makes no mention of any Europe-specific events - instead it's padded out with talk relating to the original game and its real-time freeform gameplay, its GBA/GC connectivity features and the fact that it won an Edge award for Gameplay Innovation of the Year.
Returning to the disgracefully long wait factor, though, we actually bought our copy of Animal Crossing from an importer in July 2002. You can buy it right now from US importers on the "Player's Choice" budget label for $29.99. It will launch in Europe for 60 Euro, roughly £40. Which is, um, pathetic.
We're keen on anything that increases the world's exposure to this mesmerising piece of unusual entertainment, but this is definitely a case of "better late than never", and given that most of the people who would have played this will have bought an import copy by now, it's only marginally better.
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Comments: 1-23 of 23 in total
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Too damned late to make an impact...
Oh well, console yourself blerk (see what I did there?) - it'll be in the bargain bin pretty quick because at the rate the cube's going it'll be like the DC was in its dying days, with retailers trying to shift the stuff as quickly as possible to get rid of it. Peej |
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Vertical Stand
12/05/04 @ 20:03
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Yeah its late, REALLY late - but this is what we asked for, so I'm gratful, and I hope it goes down really well.
Spread the word people, and make it a sleeper hit! |
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KiLlerKnight
14/05/04 @ 18:31
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Mario Golf is player's choice too in the US. We in Europe have to wait another month for this game. I really feel sorry for those who only have the GC.
I really hope the PSP kick their DS-ass, so we get decent portable games for a price worth it, unlike these overpriced GBA-crap games. And the Cube 2 will probably do even worse, and Nintendo deserve this. |
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martyngates
17/05/04 @ 11:18
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i agree with roarer that over 80% of the people who want this will have imported, thus meaning shite european sales and probably mean ac 2 will probably never seet he light of day
oh noe, i do want to like you... why do you make life so hard for yourself |
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I suspect the reason that NoE have decided to release it after all this time is because they don't believe that they'll have much else to do come Christmas. The only major title that Nintendo are setting up for a Christmas release is Metroid Prime 2 and NoE probably won't bother with that until late February.
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chunky_tesco
22/09/04 @ 13:28
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Will I able to use the save from the AUS PAL animal crossing on the EUR PAL one?
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