Animal Crossing 3DS could feature a massive single-player online experience.

Aside from Animal Crossing's multi-player online experience, Animal Crossing 3DS could also feature a massive single-player experience as well. Nintendo has recently applied for a patent for a massive single-player game. The post below sort-of describes how this hints the game as being Animal Crossing 3DS.

An example given had one player spotting a pile of building materials in a virtual world and making a house out of it. Since the world is the same, the next player to happen along finds not a heap of lumber and tools, but a finished house (with the builder nowhere to be seen). Additionally, Nintendo’s filing suggested that one player could gossip to a non-player character in the world, who would then pass it along to other players.

“Those who want to play games that are more dynamic, not-based on Al and not-pre-scripted like multiplayer games, however, don’t want to ‘deal’ with other people, appreciate the privacy it provides."

Sounds pretty neat. Hearing news regarding Animal Crossing 3DS just makes me want it sooner! Keep your eyes pealed for more information.