What do you think Nintendo's 2018 killer app will be?

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Wyrdness said:

The Animal Crossing team are the same team who develop Splatoon so AC can't really be out next year if Splatoon 2 has only just come out, the closest on that list to be out is Pokemon otherwise it's Retro's project.

Actually, it can. A ton of Splatoon 2's development most likely didn't even take a year, due to the base game already being there.  A ton of assests were re-used and so on and so forth. I'm confident they have had a small team making an HD Animal Crossing for quite some time now, and now that Splatoon 2 is out and was done probably mid-June, they're most likely well underway with AC. Plus, they're already used to HD development and the Switch, so unless they're making Animal Crossing open world, it is definitely entirely possible for it to be out next year.

And New Leaf came out 6 years ago. I doubt they left AC with no dev work whatsoever since then. They already have some HD assets from Amiibo Festival, so it shouldn't take long at all to make AC Switch.