Don’t get your hopes up just yet for an Animal Crossing MMO from Nintendo – they say it’s just not worth their time. Don’t expect any kind of avatar-based worlds like those in PlayStation Home, either. Your Miis are staying in the Plaza.

In an interview, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata had the following to say:

“The first question I would ask is whether the service is fun if you’re 5 or 95, if you’re tech-savvy and if you’re computer illiterate. If that’s not a hurdle we can get past, it’s not something Nintendo is going to pursue.

“…In that respect, the virtual-world services out there now still aren’t at a place where we’d like to join in–and certainly not to the point that we’d want to jump into competition with everybody else. We’d rather focus on doing things that nobody else would do… even if we were to make a virtual-world-like product, we’d be sure to make it something that nobody would call it a product similar to another company’s offering.”

Guess that means no Pokemon MMO anytime soon, either. That’s OK. I’d rather have 3D projection.

Joystiq