Nintendo has announced what a direct event is for its Mobile Animal Crossing game. The direct will take place on October 25 and a pre-recorded broadcast transmitted without YouTube starting at 12:00 PM JST (October 24 at 8 PM PT / October 25 at 7 AM BST). According to Nintendo's Japanese Twitter, it will take 15 minutes.
For those who are waiting, news about other Animal Crossing titles, a Nintendo says on its website that there is no Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo Switch versions of Animal Crossing.
The Animal Crossing mobile game was originally scheduled for release without the first quarter of 2017 but was delayed for Nintendo's next financial year. This means that the game's launch may be until March 31, 2018.
Nintendo attributed the reason for the delay in launching Fire Emblem Heroes and Super Mario Run, the two new mobile games released as part of its partnership with a DeNA. Fire Emblem Heroes launches February 2 while Super Mario Run released for iOS on December 15, 2016.
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto said the company continues to focus on creating original games for the cell phone rather than downloading the old ones. This was the case for Mario, who appeared on iOS and Android devices as a self-runner, and Fire Emblem, which was released as a new free entry in the series.
In criticism of Super Mario Run, critic Peter Brown conceded a 7/10, saying "It's easy to blame Run for several things, but it's hard to lose a total satisfaction for how well it tricks the series' basic gameplay to smartphones."
He added: "It's a shame to see that it's no easy side and devoid of a long-lasting platform adventure, but it's the kind of game you enjoy in your pocket."
Kallie Plagge's Fire Emblem Heroes review, meanwhile, awarded a 6/10. "When the incentive to continue playing and being able to continue playing, it's easy to burn in Fire Emblem Heroes," she said. "In addition to getting your favorite characters - if you worry about it - Fire Emblem Heroes becomes less and less rewarding with the passage of time.
"Grinding to be entertaining for so long before pursuing rare allies becomes an arduous task and, in that sense, serves two ends of a broad spectrum, offering little incentive to anyone in the middle."