ONM: Did you ask for the microphone specifically for City Folk or was it being developed already?

Katsuya Eguchi: We’re always sharing information with the hardware group and all the teams within Nintendo so we can keep track of things. But in this case we were talking and they told me that they had this microphone n development and I said “Really? That would work well with Animal Crossing. Here’s what we’d like it to do…”

ONM: In the city there’s a door that’s boarded up. Can you tell us what’s behind it?

Katsuya Eguchi: Yeah, it’s near the shoe-shine guy. It’s just a boarded up door, I’m afraid – there’s actually nothing there. However, there are other areas that haven’t been revealed yet!

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