There have been rumors (if not an official confirmation) that Animal Crossing will be hitting store shelves this holiday, in Japan at least. For all we know about Nintendo's upcoming games for the year, we could be getting Kid Icarus, AC, and Disaster:DoC. But let us just focus on Animal Crossing. What could they have planned? I'm not very creative, so I'll leave you guys to discuss. But I'll just say this: the graphics had better be leaps beyond the previous games. After all the original AC had N64 graphics....Yeah, Wii should be able to show a game 3-4 times better-looking. As for game play--Well, what do you guys want/expect?

So... what is Animal Crossing?

I want a UI that doesn't suck. Inventory, mailing, and letters were all really cumbersome in the GC game. Pointer functionality and just a little effort should make things much faster and more fluid for the Wii game. Of course, they can also add keyboard support for the letter writing.

Expanding the dialogue of the townsfolk would be great, as would adding options for dialogue speed.

Motion-based microgames for some actions would be nice, I think.

If you played the DS version, I expect all of those offline features.

I expect a more MMO feel to that aspect of the game. Not that it will really matter, I am going to buy the game no matter what because I am a huge fan of the series.

Being Able to play VC demos like in brawl, and also maybe even a bigger house, and maybe I would like the real holidays back. AC had halloween and christmas etc, but ACWW had made up holidays, Maybe even more things to collect to go with the museum,
I heard from somewhere that you may be able to receive massaging from email or a cell phone text massage,wonder if its true.
Basically I want everything from AC and ACww
and more new things to go with ACwii

I think they need to push the series into something that more resembles a virtual world like "second life" than to continue down the road with only "local" animals. There were some significant improvements in the depth of gameplay from the GCN to the DS, but the leap to the Wii needs to be monumental. More towns to visit (that are online (owned by others) and offline (randomly generated at town creation) and part of the overall "local experience"

More items overall like the fish, bugs, bones, etc. for the museums need to be significantly deeper.

The "online" mode needs to have a bulletproof way to allow people to visit and not damage your town and/or mess up your local play. The DS has too many exploits to have people you don't know in your town.

Animal "Miis" need to become a part of the game and it needs to be deep in terms of customization.

Multiplayer in the same town -- i.e. multiple people living in the same house or town -- even if they are not local players -- needs to somehow be accomodated. I.e. if you and a friend or three want to share a town or large house, there needs to be a way to allow everyone to exist and use the one house and keep inventory, actions, etc. all on one machine with the ability to "transfer ownership" to another machine should one person want to opt out. If one could leave their Wii on and connected, that would be rather cool...

Just a few ideas, but the series really needs to be expanded as another game that is a limited expansion of the DS title will really disappoint....

Add rides bikes, mini karts, skateboards, scooters, ect to get around i'm tired of walking ! More stores/shops to compete with Tom Nooks .

Just make it huge. DLC would be tasty. I'm more interested to see what is done with Kid Icarus and Pikmin tho.

 Thats what crazy redd's for...except that nook is doing it legaly

and I agree on the karts etc, maybe they could increase the land area to 50 x 50 acres