Sorry for the long title. Anyway, Nintendo is apparently thinking about what hardware the next Animal Crossing should be developed on, so they can innovate greatly with that hardware.
I honestly don't see any problems in deciding this. The only other an AC game could come to is Wii U...I certainly hope that they do innovate using the Wii U Gamepad though, as I wouldn't want a game too similar to New Leaf.We have already started thinking about what to do next, but there is no concrete direction yet. First, we need to decide which hardware to develop a new Animal Crossing for, and then we want to use that hardware and find out what it’s capable of and what kind of features it provides. Then we can start thinking of elements of Animal Crossing and how we can realise them using the hardware. So until we discover these new inventions, we will not decide the direction.