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Animal Crossing Plaza

A free application on Wii U that allows players to hang out in the plaza with their favorite villagers and import their photos from Animal Crossing: New Leaf save them to a gallery and share them on the Wii U…

7 August 2013

Animal Crossing Plaza is a simulator developed by Nintendo, released 7 August 2013 on Wii U.

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What Animal Crossing Plaza is

Animal Crossing Plaza is a simulator game developed by Nintendo and released in 2013. It is available on Wii U only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A free application on Wii U that allows players to hang out in the plaza with their favorite villagers and import their photos from Animal Crossing: New Leaf save them to a gallery and share them on the Wii U Miiverse. The service ended on January 1st 2015.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Animal Crossing series

Animal Crossing Plaza is the 69th of 85 entries we hold in the Animal Crossing series. It arrived 9 months after Nintendo Land. The next entry was Mario Kart 8 in 2014.

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What it launched against

Animal Crossing Plaza launched on 7 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV and Europa Universalis IV.

Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV, Europa Universalis IV.

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When did Animal Crossing Plaza come out?
Animal Crossing Plaza was released on 7 August 2013 for Wii U.

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