Animal Crossing: Wil World, known in Japan as Oideyo Dōbutsu no Mori (おいでよ どうぶつの森, Animal Crossing: Wild World, known in Japan as Oideyo Dōbutsu no Mori? lit. "Come to Animal Forest"), is a life simulation video game published and developed by Nintendo exclusively for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan on November 23, 2005, and was later released in North America on December 5, 2005, in Australia on December 8, 2005, in Europe on March 31, 2006, and in South Korea on December 6, 2007.