Nintendo has introduced it's going to host a Direct event for its cell Animal Crossing game. The direct will take vicinity on October 25 and the pre-recorded broadcast will circulation on YouTube from 12 PM JST (October 24 at Animal Crossing Items 8 PM PT / October 25 at 7 AM BST). According to the Japanese Nintendo Twitter account, it's going to remaining 15 mins.

For those hoping for a few information on extra Animal Crossing titles, Nintendo says on its website that there will now not be any facts on Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo Switch versions of Animal Crossing.

The Animal Crossing mobile sport turned into at first scheduled to release in the first region of 2017, but changed into not on time into Nintendo's next financial year. This approach the game's launch can be each time up till March 31, 2018.

Nintendo attributed the motive for the delay to the release of Fire Emblem Heroes and Super Mario Run, the first two mobile games released as part of its partnership with DeNA. Fire Emblem Heroes launches February 2, while Super Mario Run released for iOS on December 15, 2016.

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto previously stated the agency will hold to recognition on crafting original video games to mobile, rather than porting vintage ones. This has been the case for Mario, which regarded on iOS and Android devices as an vehicle-runner, and Fire Emblem, which changed into released as a brand new unfastened-to-play entry inside the series.

In his Super Mario Run review, critic Peter Brown provided it a 7/10, saying "it's clean to fault Run for numerous reasons, but it is hard to absolutely lose appreciation for the way properly it is delivered the collection' center gameplay to smartphones."