Red Tulip Animal Crossing bug is not a hack

You probably heard last week’s reports that many Animal Crossing players who received a red tulip from Nintendo had all sorts of problems. According to Eurogamer’s post We Made Evil Flower, Nintendo has confirmed that the letter containing “Red Tulips” was indeed their fault and not the result of hackers:

“We have isolated the problem and determined that there was a temporary error with the upload tool when this letter was posted. Thankfully we have been able to limit the number of people affected by removing the related file from circulation. Players who have received the letter should delete it before placing the Red Tulip anywhere in their characters’ homes…
… Please note that tulips themselves are not the problem. Generally they are undisruptive and readily available in Animal Crossing: Wild World.”

Nice one, boys… between this and the WiFi dongle problems what’s happened to Nintendo’s quality control procedures??

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