- one of the goals for Animal Crossing: City Folk was to launch in NA/EU/Japan at the same time
- Nintendo spent a great deal of time on culturalization
- Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Nintendo DS sold ten times the amount that the Gamecube Animal Crossing game had
- the team was afraid of making too many changes, since the DS version was such a hit
- the goal with Animal Crossing: New Leaf was to rethink the conventions of the series
- the dev team held turnip competitions, and the staff would leave presents for everyone that had the lowest prices
- this helped keep stress levels down during development
- Eguchi believes the franchise has the potential not just to evolve itself, but also the scope of the platform it was designed for