Nintendo: Animal Crossing delay means avoiding crunch

The delay to Animal Crossing: New Horizons is in keeping with Nintendo's stance on crunch, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser has said.
The new Animal Crossing game has been delayed until March 2020, despite the company telling investors and gamers that it would launch in 2019.
The news was announced during the company's E3 Nintendo Direct yesterday, but Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser offered some clarity on the reason why in a subsequent interview with IGN.
"For us, one of our key tenets is that we bring smiles to people's faces, and we talk about that all the time," he said. "For us, that applies to our own employees. We need to make sure that our employees have good work-life balance.

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