Graduation Day

Graduation Day is an event in and  where the player's villagers commemorate all the hard work and progress the players have made so far in the game. If players talk to Tortimer, he will give the player the.

In the newest update published to, the Postgraduate Ceremony event provides the player an endless day of fun and excitement in order to celebrate their post graduation. This event triggers on the third Wednesday in September and is only allowed to trigger if the player has received the Graduation Day event in. For to gain access to a player's old  data, it first scans the player's nearby area for any device, powered on or off, that might contain stored data from. If a suitable device is found, it transfers all relevant save data to the player's current device, analyzing it in order to root out if their character has finished the Graduation Day event. If it succeeded in finding a valid save containing the completed event, then the Postgraduate Ceremony will commence!

Privacy Concerns
Recently, a few disgruntled Nintendo employees have leaked highly classified information containing, in their opinion, egregious examples of data siphoning Nintendo has been subjecting unbeknownst consumers to. From all we know of the information given to us so far, these 'egregious' examples only apply to and its questionable procedure for gaining data from past titles in the series. Accusations of selling personal data, veiled as a simple search for past game data, is a main point in the leaks, with several, albeit poorly cropped, screenshots of de-compiled source code from supposedly showing Nintendo saving players' personal data to a cloud database. This database was titled, as shown in the screenshots, Data of The Cust. (as translated from Japanese.)

One of the largest sources of outrage, which was also listed as one of the biggest motivators for the whistleblowers to come forward, was the Postgraduate Ceremony event listed prior. Nintendo has yet to come forward with a statement regarding this recent controversy, but one, still active employee has gone on record to defend the company:

''"I have not seen anything that gives proof to the idea of data theft. It is plain wrong." - Anonymous Nintendo Software Engineer''