Animal Crossing Plaza Moves Into Miiverse!

At the end of this morning’s Nintendo Direct video, Satoru Iwata shared the stage with Isabelle, the incredibly stunning assistant to the mayor in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, and unveiled Animal Crossing Plaza for Wii U. When is it coming, you ask? That’s the best part, because we’ll have to wait for a grand total of… nothing! That’s right, the plaza is available now!

Acting as its own version of WaraWara Plaza, (where Mii’s you come across talk about the latest games they’re playing,) 3DS mayors will be able to use their SD cards on the Wii U to share screenshots, QR codes for those outfits you’ve spent hours making, and discuss villagers with other players. Outside of the plaza, a special Miiverse community has opened up for the series, so Wii U owners can set up all the shady trades they want directly through Nintendo now.

The bad part? The service will only be available until the end of 2014, so soak it up while you can. It has to be a first for a company to announce that they’re dropping support for a feature right after it’s announced, but maybe it’s incentive for all those New Leaf owners to buy a Wii U? Nah, didn’t think so.

Who else can’t wait to WaraWara with their villagers?