Animal Crossing: City Folk was a serious FAILURE

[kopstudent89]

Roar_Of_War said:

kopstudent89 said:
I'd consider Wii music the bigger failure IMO. Ok AC should have done better but it was never really that succesful to start with, so expecting it to really explode wasnt really realistic. I mean the only 2 series to really outperform their predecessor on the Wii were Mario Kart and Mario Party, and both capitalized on the Wii mote's functionality, something AC didnt.

Someone never checked the DS sales for wild world.

 

 

In my opinion, they need to expand and evolve the series in numerous ways if they wanna keep the series a hit. If they choose to not innovate/evolve it, they should never release a console Animal Crossing again. Handheld AC's will still do pretty well for the way the series is at the moment, but console titles need something huge, and less limited than City Folk was.

 

Looking at it from a completely formal view, Animal Crossing: City folk was actually a hit. It just wasn't any different from the gamecube title with online that you could find on the DS version anyway. Oh, and animal tracks ruined it for some people.

Well comapring it to the DS version is unfair. If anything it seems to be much more handheld oriented and thats why it exploded on the DS. I only compared it to the gamecube version though, and it obviously wasnt really more unique than it which is why the fanbase didnt grow substantially. As i explained previously, the Wii's success is mostly due to motion controls, and AC didnt really capitalize that compared to previous iterations.