Animal Crossing: New Leaf won't feature paid-for DLC, even though it could have been 'unbelievably profitable'

Never mind the fact that Nintendo has 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:slashed its profit forecasts in the wake of more losses. Never mind the fact that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:add-on packs for New Super Mario♛ Bros 2 have been well-received. Never mind that, by the company's president's own admission, paid-for DLC for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Animal Crossing: New Leaf could be 'unbeli🍃evably profitable'. It's not going to happen.

And the reason it's not going to happen is because Nintendo still cares about how its customers feel about the conten♛t they buy.ꦚ In an Investors' Meeting (of which Nintendo seems to be having many at the moment), :

"We would like to supply consumers with only add-on or downloadable content which they are happy to pay for as compensation for creative work. For example, some might say that it would be unbelievably profitable to provide paid add-on content for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, but we were concerned that a game in which 𝔉you enjoy yourself more by the power of money would not be suitable, and we decided to avoid such a feature after an intensive discussion with the development team."

Animal Crossing fans (which includes us) are undoubtedly going to be ecstatic about the news because its item-collecting/customisation-based gameplay is ludicrously addictive. The DS game was a daily ritual for most of the GamesRadar team back in 2006... until we tried to take screenshots of our town with the office grabber, unaware its internal clock was set to the default, effectively destroying our town and all our prized turnips. It was never the same after that. So you can imagine the thought of paying money to get more tur🅷nips filled us with dread, so we'll be sleeping very soundly t𝔉onight.

Animal𒉰 Crossing: New Leaf is due o🦄ut on Nintendo 3DS in Japan on November 8, with Western releases to follow early next year.

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Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now ✅a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the 💮hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.