In a press release right this moment, Nintendo assured present gamers they’d nonetheless be capable of absolutely benefit from the sport for 3 extra months. “We will proceed to carry occasions and add gadgets till the service-end date.”
In addition to the sport shutting down on November twenty eighth, Leaf Tickets (which may very well be used to expedite the constructing of campsite equipment) will not be obtainable for buy beginning on November twenty seventh. As of October twenty eighth, new month-to-month Pocket Camp Club subscriptions can even not be accepted, and current subscriptions to all three tiers will not robotically renew.
November gained’t be the everlasting finish of the path for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Nintendo has assured gamers that their save information might be carried over to a brand new model of the sport at the moment in growth by linking their Nintendo accounts. The firm doesn’t plan to disclose the brand new model till someday in October however shared just a few particulars right this moment. The new Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp shall be a “paid app with out in-app purchases” and won’t require a continuing web connection to be performed.
The announcement is a part of Nintendo’s sluggish shift away from cell. After the success of the Nintendo DS and the Wii, with many players migrating to smartphones, Nintendo did the identical. In 2015, it launched its first cell sport, Miitomo, which was adopted by extra bold apps like Super Mario Run in 2016, Fire Emblem: Heroes and Pocket Camp in 2017, and Mario Kart Tour in 2019.
The previous 5 years haven’t seen a lot of something from Nintendo for iOS or Android, however at the very least the corporate isn’t shutting down Pocket Camp totally and leaving paying gamers with nothing, prefer it did when it shut down its free-to-play cell sport Dragalia Lost.
