{"id":112157,"date":"2020-04-28T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/random_nintendos_european_twitter_accounts_are_having_too_much_fun_with_animal_crossing"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:30:00","slug":"random-nintendos-european-twitter-accounts-are-having-too-much-fun-with-animal-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/28\/random-nintendos-european-twitter-accounts-are-having-too-much-fun-with-animal-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Nintendo&#8217;s European Twitter Accounts Are Having Too Much Fun With Animal Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a95aab461df57\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a95aab461df57\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a95aab461df57\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a95aab461df57\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Nintendo of Europe<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After hours and hours of meticulous solo play in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\"><strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong><\/a>, it can be super exciting to finally invite a friend or two to visit your beautiful island. There are new sights to see, new fruits and items to trade and more, so it perhaps comes as no surprise that even Nintendo&#8217;s official channels are getting in on the action.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <em>fine<\/em>, the Twitter exchange below is of course a cool little marketing stunt, but just look at all those happy faces. Things kicked off this morning with a tweet from Nintendo UK, aimed at Nintendo France:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Baguette Island&#8221;&#8230; \ud83d\ude12<br \/>\u2026 We called it CROISSANT Island! \ud83d\ude0c Gotcha!<br \/>Interested by the pears. What about giving you apples in return?<\/span>\u2014 Nintendo France (@NintendoFrance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoFrance\/status\/1255049671409623043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just look at these island names, for goodness&#8217; sake. The whole chat is lame in a cool kind of way, you know? Nintendo Italia and Nintendo Nederland were next:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We need apples and pears! Can trade for oranges! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoDE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NintendoDE<\/a> has peaches on Bratwurst Island!<\/span>\u2014 Nintendo Nederland (@NintendoNL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoNL\/status\/1255056952339697669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Next up, Nintendo DE and Nintendo Espa\u00f1a:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yep, Paella Island has plenty of cherries, ripe for picking!<\/span>\u2014 Nintendo Espa\u00f1a (@NintendoES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoES\/status\/1255071358750461953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Finally, after one last message from Nintendo Portugal, all of our European chums came together on Nintendo of Europe&#8217;s island. We do love a happy ending:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ninten Island is open! Please don&#8217;t trample the flowers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eP9hwNelLg\">pic.twitter.com\/eP9hwNelLg<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoEurope\/status\/1255086142841634818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s only a bit of fun, sure, but it <em>is<\/em> nice to see all of these Nintendo accounts link up like this. The replies are overwhelmingly positive, too, with plenty praising the company for the &#8220;wholesome&#8221; content on show.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nice work, Nintendo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo of Europe After hours and hours of meticulous solo play in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it can be super exciting to finally invite a friend or two to visit your beautiful island. There are new sights to see, new fruits and items to trade and more, so it perhaps comes as no surprise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}