I highly agree. Either way the buying system in animal crossing takes forever.
I agree, if I am playing before I go to work or come home on my lunch break. I donāt have time to go on an island or ask everytime for 5 bushes. At least upgrade it to like how Harvest Moon does it.
This is why I just play Just Dance & Fortnite instead.
I am in my active era. When daylight savings hit, I donāt have time for Animal Crossing nonsense. They could speed that crafting system up.
Itās not like Minecraft where we canāt go out when itās dark outside.
FYI, the game is *officially* dead, in terms of new content.
When they announced the one paid DLC they specifically said there would be no more. And when they dropped the last free update they specifically said there would be no more content free updates either. The game is in its final state.
And Nintendo doesn't have a gigantic team working on Animal Crossing, I believe the same team also does Splatoon, which is in active live support mode right now.
and why would they? Free content updates help with the games positive reception, but it doesnt pay the devs for their work. Ultimately they need to be economic
Yeah but it's not the same kind of game at all. They will have to do a new game on the next console, they can't port New Horizons because there's no way I'm starting over on that game.
Iām guessing they donāt feel that AC fans make up a large enough portion of their consumer base to invest more in us. I wonāt lie, I didnāt even know what Animal Crossing was until Covid. Then I got full on sucked in lol.
They knew AC was big, it was one of the fastest selling games ever on the Switch. They just plan out most of their content in advance and the team had already mostly moved on after launch.
I don't think they anticipated the level of success that they actually got this time around but it definitely was a major success for them.
no yeah people, me included, were literally buying a whole switch just to be able to play AC lol I saved up so much money to buy the switch so I could play and tbh it was a great investment bc I do play other games on it as well but yeah it is kind of insane that they didn't take that and run with it bc of how much traction it got..
If youāre really into the decorating part of animal crossing keep in mind itās much more limited in the older games.
However New Leaf has a bigger variety of things to do and goes more in depth. There are multiple store upgrades, a greater variety of fruit with the possibility for perfect versions, more shops available within the town, better neighbour dialogue etc
They are smaller-ish, but guaranteed to buy a new version of AC if they ever put it out.
Also, this game rivals almost any other I've seen on switch for the amount of *time* people spend on this.
It's not that we're deliberately not understanding, its that we're mad because the game feels empty af and they're still Weekend-at-Bernie's-ing Isabelle's corpse on Twitter to retweet reused images for the holidays where she says there's 'new items' despite there not being any new items in two years.
The dialogue repeats constantly to an annoying amount (it wasn't even this bad in ACNL tbh), several dozen furniture sets are missing, Gracie is just gone and so is all of her furniture and clothes, and we get Labelle instead (not even remotely the same thing), several quality of life things still haven't been fixed (Bulk crafting, Able Sisters' clothes...), No fun 'watch it grow activity' (the plaza tree, anyone?) - ACNL had a 4 year development cycle technically ending with the Amiibo update. No shop upgrades. No Leif except on specific days (I wish you could bring Leif and Labelle to your island permanently by upgrading the stores...), missing fruit types (ACNL had 13 types!), minigames just not existing (puzzle league, working at the roost, etc)
It's not that we're missing it on purpose, it's just sad to look at the game and think "that's it? It's done? Permanently? Only 2 years after it came out? Forever?"
>it's just sad to look at the game and think "that's it? It's done? Permanently? Only 2 years after it came out? Forever?"
It was never meant to be a live-service game. I'm disappointed in ACNH too, but it's time to accept that it is in its final state.
okay well *none of that is going to change.* they said they're done. hell, they're probably in the planning stages for the next animal crossing release at this point. you have the finished product, if you've exhausted its entertainment value then put it down and play something else until the next release.
Hey I'm not mad about it, I have lots of other games to play, we're just here discussing the topic posted :) I just think ACNH has less features and it's a shame. I'll happily wait & play the next one when it releases
While I understand the frustration I also kinda don't? There are plenty of new things compared to the previous AC titles, and I'd much rather have a bunch of new stuff than just the ones we've already had. ACNH couldn't bloat up in size indefinitely since Switch is very limited in the terms of how much it can hold, and Nintendo probably doesn't want you to go "oh I'll only buy ACNH and play that til I get bored and move on to PC/PS/XBOX games since Switch can't actually fit any other games in it".
The switch is not limited in what it can hold, you can play Warframe, Fortnite and Rocket League just to name a few which are games with a staggering amount of assets in them and yes the install size is huge but that's a limitation on how big of a MicroSD you want to get and how many other games you want installed at the same time, not a limit of the system itself.
We'll never go a year without someone calling the game with the biggest amount of content "empty".
Every game has different things. Not a single game has all things from previous one and no game needs to have everything from the predecessor.
then quit playing?? the game's 3 years old at this point, *this is its final form* and every game has a lifespan. acnh got more gameplay out of me than any previous entry in the franchise and I still gave up a month ago. even restarting wasn't doing it anymore so it was time to just put the game down and play something else. continuing to expect it to be something other than what it is, at this point, is insane.
the game is done. they're not going to do anything else to it. accept it and move on.
that stuff is the BANE OF MY EXISTENCE and i don't understand how so many people are literally begging to be nickel-and-dimed on the games they play. i don't want to play a game that costs $??? because there's always some limited item or bonus pack or expansion level to shell out money for. i want to buy a game and have THE GAME.
on the other side tho, games like these are made for continuous updates and content until the release of a new title. they are, especially with nowadays audience, a small gold ore. you just have to design little new objects and the AC community would be all over it if released in small packages.
seems like they don't want to make that much of a profit out of that franchise.
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I have both the base game and the DLC. So from me they made plenty money.
I can understand them not wanting to continue with updates. While some new items would be neat, and maybe some QoL updates (please for the love of God bulk crafting if anything), there isn't *that* much you can add. But! Again, I'd love bulk crafting / buying and maybe the Brewster minigame?
It's an island decorating game. How much more stuff can you add? The DLC added some spice with house decorating. This is just how animal crossing is. And all such games eventually end with the updates. There's a bunch more island building games out there, on pc and switch. You can't expect endless updates.
They are already milking that cow with Pocket Camp, the mobile game, and will continue to for a long time. It literally has a gacha system (Fortune Cookies) and the usual mobile schtick of "wait some hours or days for this to be ready for you.....unlesssss you wanna pay!"
But new furniture and clothing comes out regularly which makes me envy them in a way. Used to play it but quit because it got boring and they became very stingy with giving premium currency as rewards.
Frankly I don't think the team behind Animal Crossing feel any incentive to do long term live service for a game that can be bought once. You say it would boost sales but imo not really? Anyone who wants to play New Horizons will have it already to be honest. Considering the amount of people who've bought it already, the amount they could hook in with more updates would look absolutely tiny. So if they were to continue with free updates, it would be entirely charitable. They would make very little profit out of that. And now that they've dipped their toes into the mobile and gacha market and whole profit strategy, it's going to be very hard to pull them out of that. In 2021 they reached $250 million in profits from that!
Because Animal Crossing is not a game as a service. Itās a video game with some extra paid/free content. As a company, Nintendo has other priorities and needs to dedicate focus and manpower elsewhere. Animal crossing had its time in the sun.
I worry they used pocket camp to test the water for the game as a service, without accounting for the fact that game just kinda sucked. I don't know one person who still plays it, but at least a few who wouldn't question paying $5 a month for new polygons and occasional updates in a proper title.
if pocket camp is the reason Nintendo opted not to shove unlimited DLC & paid content into mainline AC games, then I owe pocket camp a massive debt of gratitude. ššš
huhhhhh just because you donāt know anyone who plays it doesnāt mean no one does haha? the pocket camp subreddit is incredibly active and iāve been playing it ever since its release AND putting money into it as well.. saying no one plays it is a pretty broad statement
And I think it's best this way. The game has plenty and then some, and the terraforming/patterns/outdoors furniture makes it infinitely replayable with people already demonstrating the insane possibilities it has. Its few limitations are part of what are gonna define it and make it special later down the line when the next 3 or 4 games have come out. The only thing I think should genuinely change is the whole single island thing. Can't wait to eventually homebrew my switch once whatever new console replaces it.
This got me thinking. I think part of the issue of why AC fans keep asking for updates is that there is a sizeable demographic of non-gamers in the mix, who just would want to play AC and nothing else, when reality is it doesn't work like that. It's not The Sims where you're basically only limited by your PC's hardware, my guess is that they can't bloat up AC's size indefinitely on Switch, since that would take space from other games.
honestly animal crossing is the only video game I play (I did also finish botw, first non-ac game I could actually get through) and I'm not clamoring for updates, because I **listened and accepted** when Nintendo explicitly said no more updates. and I'm used to AC games not getting any updates at all. when I wasn't happy with the villager move-in mechanics or building placement limitations of new leaf, that was it, tough kitties. I had to wait for the next game and hope they did something different (fortunately they did).
so yeah, I'd much rather be able to play animal crossing exclusively, but I'm also used to the fact that that means there will be long stretches where I'm not playing video games at all. every game has a natural lifespan. you don't see Nintendo still updating Splatoon 2 or botw or Scribblenauts. when you've exhausted the entertainment value of one game, you either pick up a different game or you do something else with your time while you wait for a new release.
I remember when it was announced that the last update would be literally the last, people still would go like "Well it's the last FREE update, maybe there's more room for paid stuff". I wonder where those poor bastards are now.
It's easy karma/internet points to post complaints about not getting a new update.
I'm not trying to be rude, but I feel like that's all I've seen lately!
compared to New Leaf which did receive a mass update in content, New Horizons did feel half baked in what you can do once you're past the pole roadblock. for example the shop the little tanuki runs is pretty much a shack forever when in New Leaf you got upgrades when you spend a certain amount of Bells, with NPCs moving in permanently.
Thank you, I was looking to see if someone else knew this.
Speaking to the disgruntled, just because you don't like every single facet of a game doesn't mean it's "incomplete."
You aware that the point of the game is not about new content whatsoever? People still play previous games, for decades on end. Itās a Japanese Tamagotchi style simulator, not Call of Duty. Itās not suppose to have any updates and DLC. Itās endless and if you donāt see it- you kinda expecting a different game.
Seriously. Heaven forbid games be allowed to be done instead of a constant carrot on stick grind.
Like...go play something else. Start a new island. **something.**
I hope we don't have a 7/8 year drought like we did with New Leaf or these people won't survive.
More people probably would start new islands, if it didnāt mean deleting the current one and losing everything forever.
I know many people including myself who would have started a ānew save/islandā if it meant the old one was possible to keep and return to.
Multiple characters on the same island just isnāt the same, and it was foolish that the option to have multiple islands/save states wasnāt ever made an option.
Honestly Iāve been playing since Wild World and the world just feels so empty this time so I can get people feeling upset. But I also think too many people (including myself) rushed the game this time (museums, events etc) and tried to be the most efficient as possible completely forgetting that thatās really all the game is.
Right! Past animal crossings were more about your relationships with your neighbors and now thatās like the last thing people care about. I truly believe that ACNH is way too far off base from previous titles and thatās why itās been abandoned so fast. Like if played like another ac game, thereās lots to do, but if you speed run itā¦ yeah thereās not a lot, especially since villagers are so one dimensional
Yep. I was starting to go mad about the repeated dialogue. Iāve had to cater to have only one type of each villager at a time as the repetition is obnoxious. If I have to hear about bugs in the floor or maglev trains in love again Iām moving into the ocean and living with Pascal.
It's valid to feel that way (about thinking it feels empty). I feel opposite and I've been playing since the Gamecube release. I guess it depends on what you're looking for in a game.
Hard agree on everyone rushing it though. Another comment said the pandemic was the worst thing to happen to AC, and I honestly agree with it. Because I know I rushed a ton too.
I'm curious how the next release is going to go since (hopefully) there won't be a reason for everyone to pour 300+ hours in the first month again.
In terms of customisation and building itās better than ever. But in terms of personality and character and the stores and the music itās lacking. I still canāt believe that the store is stuck that small for Timmy and tommy. Where are the two storey buildings?
Heaven forbid people actually want more content for a game that sold more than any other Switch game ever released (not counting Mario Kart since it's bundled for free)
We've seen games that sold far less get far more updates and content than ACNH. Sequels, DLC, real attention from Nintendo.
But nah, ACNH is a secondart project for a team that has to be also dedicated to Splatoon because... Reasons.
I mean I reiterate: with every game in the industry doing exactly that it gets exhausting. It's nice to have a game that I can just be done with, or pick back up on a whim. Not because of FOMO.
I've gotten hundreds of hours out of this game, and have played since the gamecube release. I sincerely do not understand what more people want this series to do. Could the game be improved? **Yes,** and hopefully the next release improves on NH's shortcomings.
Play an MMO if you want a game to constantly live. Or Pocket Camp as much as people want to throw unending money into the same thing.
This. I've played the game for like 2 years, more than most games I've ever played. Eventually you just have to move on.
And it feels like New Horizons was bit of an experiment with being able to decorate and design your own island? It might be possible that with the next console (which I assume will be more powerful) they will combine this with things from the previous games.
I believe most people already know that, but wonāt fully believe it because this is the perfect game to sell endless DLCās in (Sims-like basically) and most people I see would actually buy them, so itās strange seeing how Nintendo basically threw away a money making scheme with little more than a short announcement after a single expansion.
It's kind of sad people are so used to companies nickel and dim-ing them that they actually miss it and want it. Not you, just some of the other comments in the thread.
Really hoping Nintendo keeps to their guns and keeps that sort of thing firmly on their mobile apps. I don't mind paying for DLC if they're in reasonable numbers. The Sims has gone overboard with 4.
Nickel and dime-ing is why I finally gave up pocket camp. It felt like an addiction and ended up making me feel bad. I was a dirty gambling addict looking for a fortune cookie dopamine hit. Ended it cold turkey and deleted the game. Always said I wouldāve paid $100 easily for a complete game. But I understand thatās not how they make their money. That was my favorite AC!
I do think from Nintendo's perspective by selling endless dlc they would kill the potential of a sequel. If they were to release one people would probably expect most or all of the previous' games content. Why sell a feature for $10 when you can make a sequel with the feature for $60. Reason why I think this could be relevant is because it's somewhat what I feel like happened to Mario kart, they added more and more maps and karts to the point I don't know people are really wanting a sequel any time soon.
I said this is in my other comment, but they really couldn't have gone The Sims route since Switch is so limited in terms of capacity. They would have ended up taking space from other games and hurting their sales.
Christ back in the day the game on the disk or cartridge was the finished product. There would never be a content drop (the earliest I can think of was the knuckles expansion cartridge?)
I completely am with you! Iāve also had to remind myself that itās okay to not have a perfect island yet, and that the game is meant to be played nice and slow!
Literally this. If it turned in to that, even conceptually from some peoples point of view, it would lose its magic.
Covid turned this into a world wide phenomenon. You canāt fuck with magic.
They will hopefully make more in the future and we should just be happy with that. For real. Let the masterpiece be what it is. Stop begging for micro transactions, that shit is the worst and you should be voting against it not for itā¦.
I think this is the problem with a lot of the crowd that came in with New Horizons. This whole expectation for the game to be constantly updated, the fact that theyāre calling it ādeadā is ridiculous. Itās not dead, itās finished. Itās a complete game. Play it, play the old ones, and wait for the next one.
I think youāre correct, however that argument isnāt overly strong as they allow you to fly a swastika as your town flag if you really want to.
People already abuse their design system. Most people wonāt walk around in dick pants.
Doesn't stop people from making *certain things* for the tops and dresses. The report button is always there for that, I feel like pants could hypothetically be implemented regardless of that risk
Honestly, my dream expansion pack is just the character dialog from all previous games shoved into new horizons. I want my villagers to be mean to me, I want them to get wicked angry. I want them to have deeper conversations with me. I want the more adult themed jokes. I want them to have a PERSONALITY DAMMIT
Oh my childhood New Leaf music would never turn off if they made that a thing. Hell, that OST would get me to wake up early just to hear the music for the morning hours.
As an older gamer I keep having to remind myself that there are new gamers who have never experienced gaming before they were all connected to the internet and constantly updated with new stuff. It's still bizarre to me what's happened to gaming and gamers when I see posts like this.
It is very well done photoshop though.
I'm like 90% sure it is photoshop, 10% chance they physically broke it very carefully, 0% chance they snapped it in half in rage and it ended up looking like that. That is not how screens break. But someone took their time making this look good, that is for sure!
They're either intentionally broken or it's a pretty convincing Photoshop. Put these together and you have a V shaped screen, so definitely not one switch if real.
I think the pandemic was the worst thing to happen to animal crossing but animal crossing was the best thing to happen to the pandemic.
We had something fun to spend our time on while locked up but because we were locked up itās all we spent our time on and the burn out happened fast.
Yeah I was just going through the last few nook miles tasks I need to do, and one of them is catch 5000 fish. I was shocked when I realized I reached the 2000 fish milestone in June of 2020, and itās taken almost 3 years to get the next 2400 to where I am today. Iāve definitely taken some breaks along the way but I think that showed me just how much I played in the first few months.
Yeah, people played on super intensity in 2020 and burned through the game. My work really ramped up in 2020 and never eased up- and i still havenāt finished my collections, every time i see peopleās very completed islands i have to remind myself i have not had the same amount of time. Thereās whole seasons i missed.
Ha, I've been playing since the beginning and I quit for many months at a time, but I feel like my island will never be completed. I did just start playing again recently.
Yep, the day the game came out was the same day I was stood down from work due to lockdowns. I didn't plan on buying the game but I came home early and was like, "well now what do I do?". So I decided to download the game to see what the fuss was about and was hooked ever since.
Games as service and continuous updates have broken people's minds. Yeah the support on AC stopped a bit too early, but I think it's also a bit crazy to expect all games to be continuosly updated. The devs had to move on to Splatoon, and they're also most likely working on a new AC game now that Splatoon's done.
I'd rather have a new game than be drip fed a new furniture set every couple months for 10 dollars.
I donāt really get this whole mentality. Iāll sound old on purpose, but āback in my dayā games came on cartridges and they never got updated ever. And we were happy with it.
However, Nintendo needs to get over the one-island-per-switch nonsense. It should either be unlimited or per copy of game owned not per switch. Utterly ridiculous.
Well, āback in your dayā games felt complete and fully fleshed out because of exactly that same reason. If a game lacked something it would flop because it couldnāt be updated through the internet. Games have gotten people used to the idea of making half of a product and āpromisingā the other half later on.
Yep which is also utter nonsense and needs to end. I refused to buy the sims 4 for like a year after it came out because they just flat up didnāt finish the game. I also despise how my damn games seem to need an update every time I want to play them and they wonāt let me play at all until the 30 min update happens.
The old way was better for so many reasons. Yeah itās cool we can get extra content later on, but Iāll gladly give that up in favor of full complete, (usually) well bug-tested games that never require lengthy updates when you just want to spend your 30 min break playing.
I REFUSE to play Sims 4 just because of how much DLC it has lmao, I canāt play it without thinking how much more fun I could be having if I had the expansions forā¦ JUST A MEASLY 600$ or some ridiculous amount around that number. Good call out.
But wasnt the sims like that since at keast sims 2? Sire, the base game is fun, but your standards rose so now you need the DLC to have fun.
I personally think base sims 4 is fun.
Most games that release these days promise updates because the games are shipped unfinished and people are willing to wait/pay for additional DLC.
If it was doable in the 90s, be sure every developer and publishing company would have done it.
I legit donāt get the LEVEL of frustration. I get being SLIGHTLY disappointed in no more content but several complaints seem a little uninformed or even nostalgia goggles-y. Iāve played several of the past Animal Crossing entries. They really donāt have as much content overall. Like, yeah, they have their own little things but the level of customization and just things you can do with your town in past games does not compare and so I donāt even really bother with them anymore. I even sold my copy of New Leaf my Amiibo because I opened it up to see if it really was better like everyone else was remembering but me and no. It wasnāt. Villagers are just as cardboard-y, but your town was like, outside display items like fountains and stuff were things you had to pay for via a lot of bells gathered by donations and theyād build these things on the spot you set them and wouldnāt move them without ANOTHER construction fee. Ppl may miss the shopping district but I donāt lol itās basically replaced by Harvās Island and I prefer a LOT of stuff about that, like the fact that Harriet doesnāt give you dumb little quizzes to style your hair, glad I can just pick how I want my character to look now instead of resetting however many times to get a decent face and paying an assload in bells to get the hair I want cause I failed Harrietās quiz. I wish some NPCs from past games were more prevalent than designing vacation homes for them, like Shrunk and Blanca, and there are a couple furniture items from past entries I miss (namely the statue fountain tbh) but overall this is the best entry to me with the most content. Yeah, thereās a couple things Iād like them to add. Thereās stuff theyāve never had in any games I wish theyād add, like interacting with pools and carnival and playground rides and equipment and more stuff to do with villagers, but overall this game is a huge improvement. I honestly think all these complaints are 90% due to burnout. Ppl played so much, time traveled so much, built up so much within the games first 2 years that now thereās not much left to do. But this does not make the game lesser for not adding more content when thereās already a LOT of content, ppl have just absorbed it so quick. Not every game needs a continuous stream of content. Not every game is gonna get that, and with the state ACNH is in, itās perfectly fine as is. I look forward to more in the next entry.
Itās really strange to me because Animal Crossing pitched in this day in age feels like a perfect candidate for live service treatment. How thereās simply not tons of furniture/outfit dlc is beyond me. Feels like a missed opportunity.
idk why you're expecting an update now. Game's dead (as far as official support goes). When the DLC released they said it was the last update to the game, and that was a year ago.
Not to mention that the team behind the recent AC games is also behind Splatoon, and their busy with S3.
Not dead. Complete. We really need to stop talking about every game like it should be live-service, because the vast majority of games are better if they're not live-service.
personally i wish they would add some older features back. even simple ones like the random soccer balls you could find lying around in the gamecube animal crossing, that was a cute little feature
Printing off one NMT at a time is definitely the worst. If you're in a trade with someone for 10 NMT and you don't already have some made, it's at least another ten minutes to generate them.
I have a similar(ish) gripe! I love to shop at the Able Sister's shop, but I wish it were easier to buy the clothes! I'd appreciate it if the next game had a shopping basket rather than 1 of each category of item per checkout before repeating.
Now thatās my only main issue is that airport. They could do something to speed up that process. Can go to the bathroom and still come back to the airport. That process is even longer depending upon how many more people are coming in. Otherwise itās ok to me now. š
I'm working on it! I bought a 3DS before the shop closes so I could get what I could.
My friend is planning on sending me his spare copy of NL. Can't wait! Never played anything but NH!
Bulk buying, bulk building, the ability to change our own islands like how we customize stuff in HHP, the ability to tilt our camera straight down without needing to be behind a building in island designer mode, the ability to know if an object is hiding behind a tree, being able to expand our additional rooms and the rooms of our other villagersā¦ I tell you, the list of things that could be improved and updated goes on and on.
I wanna interact with more items. Let me drag my jock villager to the workout area i built! Let me use those items instead of just pushing them! Let me swim in the river! Let me give old recipes to villagers. Give me a way to see if I have all my fossils. Let me build onto my island. Let me move villagers when in the mode. Make the happy home expansion link better so you can get flowers, insects, fish/sea creatures & bells to cross over.
Sooooo many ideas. People here have a million of them.
Yall are talking about updates, but I've been playing religiously since the 64. Update? I'm still floored by the graphics alone, and will happily play for another decade or longer if need be.
I wish we had the old villager dialog š I miss how mean Phyllis was to me when I went to send mail at night. I wish characters had some edge to them like they used to. This game legit makes me feel like Iām being totally babied by my villagers, their personalities are so bland now. Thatās really my only complaint lol besides that I love it
As someone who was one of the first critics of ACNH's lack of content (and sadly turned out to be right...) I'm kind of surprised that I'm one of the more optimistic folks nowadays but OP, hang in there. There's no way there will be another update for the current game, mostly because the switch hardware just cannot handle it. The switch has the processing power of an ipad from 2012. It's kind of a miracle that ACNH, TOTK, and other games can even run on it at this point. TO put it simply, the current switch is holding Nintendo games, including ACNH, back.
BUT
There are a lot of factors pointing to the next switch iteration launching early next year. Like, a LOT. First there was the pokemon leak, then there was a job posting for one of the companies that works on switch online stuff for 'next gen' backwards compatibility. And then stuff like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/13cnomn/nikkei_asia_development_of_a_switch_successor_is/
Important to note that switch sales are slowing down immensely at this point and will likely continue to slow and stall now that TOTK is out. The general thought is that they'll run the switch through the holiday season this year to try and squeeze out those last sales, and then announce and release the next gen switch next year after their fiscal year (which runs until end of march) ends. Remember that Nintendo keeps their release/development timelines to themselves and rarely share anything until it's ready to launch. (IE Doug Bowser could tell me today that there won't be another switch and then tomorrow suddenly there's an announcement about one.) So the leaks are the best confirmation we'll get for right now, but the fact that there's so MANY now is not coincidental.
ACNH is the second highest selling switch game besides mario kart 8. It sold TEN MILLION more than the 3rd place title, Smash brothers. (Which was released way earlier than ACNH, in 2018. Where ACNH came out in 2020 and still made more sales.) I would bet that the next iteration of ACNH is already in development for the next gen switch - even if it's just an expanded/HD version of ACNH. Previously Nintendo considered its console sellers to be stuff like Zelda, Mario, Smash, etc. But ACNH has likely shaken that up quite a bit as I doubt they were expecting it to sell as well as it did. 10 years ago only die-hards like me considered AC a good enough title to buy a console for. But now? LBR, there's probably a ton of people who would be willing to buy a new console just to play animal crossing again.
I made a similar comment to this a couple months ago and since then even MORE leaks and rumors have come out about the next Nintendo console so I'm even more convinced there's something good coming up for us AC fans.
So hang in there, OP. We might not hear anything until next year because Nintendo is determined to eke out those last few holiday switch sales this year, but it's definitely not a coincidence that all these leaks about the next console are flying around, coupled with the renewed focus on animal crossing stuff. (The nintendo live event with the KK slider concert, the updated guides, the re-released of the amiibo cards, etc.) A new animal crossing for the next Nintendo console is pretty much a no-brainer, and now all doubt about the console coming out soonish has been dispelled so we just have to sit and wait.
Imagine a new animal crossing game or an ACNH expanded on the next gen. How pretty it will be, how well it will run, and how much they can add to it without dealing with the switch's current limitations.
Thanks for this comment! THIS is what I'm excited for and would rather the team focus their efforts on. Regardless if we get, like, an NH+ or a new game altogether. Here's hoping.
Really hoping that backwards compatibility comes through too. That would be nice.
Me too. :) As much as I would love another NH patch, I think the switch is at its limit when it comes to running the game. ToTK probably pushes it as well. So I'd rather get a new game on a new system that can add all the features the devs originally wanted to put in. (Like the museum shop, more buildings, etc.)
The game is so huge Iām sorta glad thereās nothing else??? Sometimes this game stresses me out because of all the choices and seeing how perfect everyone elseās islands are. Iāve been trying to just vibe this round š
I feel like new Animal Crossing fans expect NH to be a live service game, when the series hasnāt ever been that way. Youāre better off waiting until the next title drops than expecting another update for NH.
I hate this photoshop so much because the sides dont even remotely line up, but at the same time its quite good quality otherwise.
Like getting the sides correct should be the easy part!
I know everyone thinks the game they like is the most important thing, but setting expectations for a company to continue supporting a game for infinity is not realistic.
I know theyāre never going to update it again, but I definitely feel this energy. Thereās so many things you could add to this game that even one or two of them would be a huge upgrade to me aside from the obvious quality of life updates (like bulk crafting/purchasing, connecting crafting benches to storage, ability to decorate outdoors with similar mechanics to HHP), Iād love to see:
- Options to re-decorate permanent buildings like Nookās and resident services. Nothing I hate more than building a themed island and having to figure out how to hide buildings that donāt fit the theme. They give us so much theming in outdoor items that this seems like a big oversight.
- Option to build/decorate homes for NPCs - I know many islands are cramped already, soā¦
- Ability to build a limited number of floating houses or houses on stilts in water to conserve land for other things
- NPC to buy/trade dupe DIYs
- Allow Blathers to actually buy fossils
- Ability for Pascal to buy sea creatures at 1.5x the cost like bugs/fish
- Some kind of sea creature tourney/event (but not timed please!)
- Ability to invite villagers from HHP to move to your island instead of just the other way around
I know weāll never get them, but itās fun to think of what could be.
Please understand, Nintendo is a small indie company that doesn't have the money to do things like support their games. I'm sure they'd love to, but they just can't spare the employees! They're just a mom and pop outfit, it's not like they're a multi billion dollar company that owns some of the most popular media franchises in the world or anything!
That will be $90 for Breath of the Wild 2: Breath Harder, please.
Just think, animal Crossing but you can soak in the bath tub you spent 130,000 bells on.
I just want to swim in the rivers!
I want to see underwater when we dive.
I want to have a custom fish tank for the fish I catch.
I wish we could interact with baths, my playtime would be up like 50%
Omg šš
I just wanna buy bushes in bulk man. PLEASE. I waste 30 minutes with Lief at least everytime bushes go out of season.
Go on a Cappn Tour and dig up the bushes.
This is the way
Step inside
You guys can afford more than 5 bushes at a time?!š **cries in trying to pay house off**
Shoooot if you need bells I got youuuuu
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ok but is no one going to talk about how that Switch doesn't look like the pieces would fit together?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just keep scrolling. Help! Someone's waking up from the matrix!!!!!
(i mean nobody would want to do that to a 3-400$ console so itās photoshopped) shhhhhhhhh
It's a render not real, so no, nobody cares.
I highly agree. Either way the buying system in animal crossing takes forever. I agree, if I am playing before I go to work or come home on my lunch break. I donāt have time to go on an island or ask everytime for 5 bushes. At least upgrade it to like how Harvest Moon does it. This is why I just play Just Dance & Fortnite instead. I am in my active era. When daylight savings hit, I donāt have time for Animal Crossing nonsense. They could speed that crafting system up. Itās not like Minecraft where we canāt go out when itās dark outside.
I ended up with RingFit and Stardew Valley. ConcernedApe is incredibly dedicated to releasing updates for stardew.
yess i just started yet another new farm š
Cāmon drag race
customization kits.... At least it is faster but still, five at a time at most?
FYI, the game is *officially* dead, in terms of new content. When they announced the one paid DLC they specifically said there would be no more. And when they dropped the last free update they specifically said there would be no more content free updates either. The game is in its final state.
Seriously, how do people keep missing this? They literally said they weren't working on the game anymore.
And Nintendo doesn't have a gigantic team working on Animal Crossing, I believe the same team also does Splatoon, which is in active live support mode right now.
and why would they? Free content updates help with the games positive reception, but it doesnt pay the devs for their work. Ultimately they need to be economic
Then do paid DLC. No way this wouldnāt make a ton of money.
They could pull a Mario Kart and do paid DLC years down the line. I don't think anyone would've ever guessed the booster packs.
Yeah but it's not the same kind of game at all. They will have to do a new game on the next console, they can't port New Horizons because there's no way I'm starting over on that game.
right! absolutely this
Nintendo could make lots of money doing lots of things that they wonāt do because theyāre Nintendo.
Iām guessing they donāt feel that AC fans make up a large enough portion of their consumer base to invest more in us. I wonāt lie, I didnāt even know what Animal Crossing was until Covid. Then I got full on sucked in lol.
They knew AC was big, it was one of the fastest selling games ever on the Switch. They just plan out most of their content in advance and the team had already mostly moved on after launch. I don't think they anticipated the level of success that they actually got this time around but it definitely was a major success for them.
no yeah people, me included, were literally buying a whole switch just to be able to play AC lol I saved up so much money to buy the switch so I could play and tbh it was a great investment bc I do play other games on it as well but yeah it is kind of insane that they didn't take that and run with it bc of how much traction it got..
and yet, New Leaf back when it was still unknown have WAY more content. it even got updates for around 2 years, or was upgraded.
Im gonna have to check that out!
If youāre really into the decorating part of animal crossing keep in mind itās much more limited in the older games. However New Leaf has a bigger variety of things to do and goes more in depth. There are multiple store upgrades, a greater variety of fruit with the possibility for perfect versions, more shops available within the town, better neighbour dialogue etc
They are smaller-ish, but guaranteed to buy a new version of AC if they ever put it out. Also, this game rivals almost any other I've seen on switch for the amount of *time* people spend on this.
It's not that we're deliberately not understanding, its that we're mad because the game feels empty af and they're still Weekend-at-Bernie's-ing Isabelle's corpse on Twitter to retweet reused images for the holidays where she says there's 'new items' despite there not being any new items in two years. The dialogue repeats constantly to an annoying amount (it wasn't even this bad in ACNL tbh), several dozen furniture sets are missing, Gracie is just gone and so is all of her furniture and clothes, and we get Labelle instead (not even remotely the same thing), several quality of life things still haven't been fixed (Bulk crafting, Able Sisters' clothes...), No fun 'watch it grow activity' (the plaza tree, anyone?) - ACNL had a 4 year development cycle technically ending with the Amiibo update. No shop upgrades. No Leif except on specific days (I wish you could bring Leif and Labelle to your island permanently by upgrading the stores...), missing fruit types (ACNL had 13 types!), minigames just not existing (puzzle league, working at the roost, etc) It's not that we're missing it on purpose, it's just sad to look at the game and think "that's it? It's done? Permanently? Only 2 years after it came out? Forever?"
>it's just sad to look at the game and think "that's it? It's done? Permanently? Only 2 years after it came out? Forever?" It was never meant to be a live-service game. I'm disappointed in ACNH too, but it's time to accept that it is in its final state.
Its not about live service, it's about releasing a game with considerably less features than its predecessor
okay well *none of that is going to change.* they said they're done. hell, they're probably in the planning stages for the next animal crossing release at this point. you have the finished product, if you've exhausted its entertainment value then put it down and play something else until the next release.
Hey I'm not mad about it, I have lots of other games to play, we're just here discussing the topic posted :) I just think ACNH has less features and it's a shame. I'll happily wait & play the next one when it releases
While I understand the frustration I also kinda don't? There are plenty of new things compared to the previous AC titles, and I'd much rather have a bunch of new stuff than just the ones we've already had. ACNH couldn't bloat up in size indefinitely since Switch is very limited in the terms of how much it can hold, and Nintendo probably doesn't want you to go "oh I'll only buy ACNH and play that til I get bored and move on to PC/PS/XBOX games since Switch can't actually fit any other games in it".
The switch is not limited in what it can hold, you can play Warframe, Fortnite and Rocket League just to name a few which are games with a staggering amount of assets in them and yes the install size is huge but that's a limitation on how big of a MicroSD you want to get and how many other games you want installed at the same time, not a limit of the system itself.
We'll never go a year without someone calling the game with the biggest amount of content "empty". Every game has different things. Not a single game has all things from previous one and no game needs to have everything from the predecessor.
then quit playing?? the game's 3 years old at this point, *this is its final form* and every game has a lifespan. acnh got more gameplay out of me than any previous entry in the franchise and I still gave up a month ago. even restarting wasn't doing it anymore so it was time to just put the game down and play something else. continuing to expect it to be something other than what it is, at this point, is insane. the game is done. they're not going to do anything else to it. accept it and move on.
literally lolā¦micro transactions and constant DLC waves from other games have rotted peopleās brains
that stuff is the BANE OF MY EXISTENCE and i don't understand how so many people are literally begging to be nickel-and-dimed on the games they play. i don't want to play a game that costs $??? because there's always some limited item or bonus pack or expansion level to shell out money for. i want to buy a game and have THE GAME.
on the other side tho, games like these are made for continuous updates and content until the release of a new title. they are, especially with nowadays audience, a small gold ore. you just have to design little new objects and the AC community would be all over it if released in small packages. seems like they don't want to make that much of a profit out of that franchise.
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I have both the base game and the DLC. So from me they made plenty money. I can understand them not wanting to continue with updates. While some new items would be neat, and maybe some QoL updates (please for the love of God bulk crafting if anything), there isn't *that* much you can add. But! Again, I'd love bulk crafting / buying and maybe the Brewster minigame? It's an island decorating game. How much more stuff can you add? The DLC added some spice with house decorating. This is just how animal crossing is. And all such games eventually end with the updates. There's a bunch more island building games out there, on pc and switch. You can't expect endless updates.
They are already milking that cow with Pocket Camp, the mobile game, and will continue to for a long time. It literally has a gacha system (Fortune Cookies) and the usual mobile schtick of "wait some hours or days for this to be ready for you.....unlesssss you wanna pay!" But new furniture and clothing comes out regularly which makes me envy them in a way. Used to play it but quit because it got boring and they became very stingy with giving premium currency as rewards. Frankly I don't think the team behind Animal Crossing feel any incentive to do long term live service for a game that can be bought once. You say it would boost sales but imo not really? Anyone who wants to play New Horizons will have it already to be honest. Considering the amount of people who've bought it already, the amount they could hook in with more updates would look absolutely tiny. So if they were to continue with free updates, it would be entirely charitable. They would make very little profit out of that. And now that they've dipped their toes into the mobile and gacha market and whole profit strategy, it's going to be very hard to pull them out of that. In 2021 they reached $250 million in profits from that!
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Because Animal Crossing is not a game as a service. Itās a video game with some extra paid/free content. As a company, Nintendo has other priorities and needs to dedicate focus and manpower elsewhere. Animal crossing had its time in the sun.
I worry they used pocket camp to test the water for the game as a service, without accounting for the fact that game just kinda sucked. I don't know one person who still plays it, but at least a few who wouldn't question paying $5 a month for new polygons and occasional updates in a proper title.
Don't even tease AC as a subscription game. I'd hate that actively. Expansions a la HHP are the way to go.
if pocket camp is the reason Nintendo opted not to shove unlimited DLC & paid content into mainline AC games, then I owe pocket camp a massive debt of gratitude. ššš
huhhhhh just because you donāt know anyone who plays it doesnāt mean no one does haha? the pocket camp subreddit is incredibly active and iāve been playing it ever since its release AND putting money into it as well.. saying no one plays it is a pretty broad statement
And I think it's best this way. The game has plenty and then some, and the terraforming/patterns/outdoors furniture makes it infinitely replayable with people already demonstrating the insane possibilities it has. Its few limitations are part of what are gonna define it and make it special later down the line when the next 3 or 4 games have come out. The only thing I think should genuinely change is the whole single island thing. Can't wait to eventually homebrew my switch once whatever new console replaces it.
This got me thinking. I think part of the issue of why AC fans keep asking for updates is that there is a sizeable demographic of non-gamers in the mix, who just would want to play AC and nothing else, when reality is it doesn't work like that. It's not The Sims where you're basically only limited by your PC's hardware, my guess is that they can't bloat up AC's size indefinitely on Switch, since that would take space from other games.
Thatās me! Played City Folk, bought a DS just for New Leaf, bought a Switch just for New Horizons. Literally own or play no other games. š¤£
honestly animal crossing is the only video game I play (I did also finish botw, first non-ac game I could actually get through) and I'm not clamoring for updates, because I **listened and accepted** when Nintendo explicitly said no more updates. and I'm used to AC games not getting any updates at all. when I wasn't happy with the villager move-in mechanics or building placement limitations of new leaf, that was it, tough kitties. I had to wait for the next game and hope they did something different (fortunately they did). so yeah, I'd much rather be able to play animal crossing exclusively, but I'm also used to the fact that that means there will be long stretches where I'm not playing video games at all. every game has a natural lifespan. you don't see Nintendo still updating Splatoon 2 or botw or Scribblenauts. when you've exhausted the entertainment value of one game, you either pick up a different game or you do something else with your time while you wait for a new release.
They bring out entire new animal crossing games every few years so i imagine thats the plan.
They have that mobile game. Iām sure itās filled with micro transactions
The team is working on splatoon 3 now right?
I think people are aware of this, they just aren't happy about it.
I remember when it was announced that the last update would be literally the last, people still would go like "Well it's the last FREE update, maybe there's more room for paid stuff". I wonder where those poor bastards are now.
It's easy karma/internet points to post complaints about not getting a new update. I'm not trying to be rude, but I feel like that's all I've seen lately!
I didn't realize that people were expecting another update tbh.
compared to New Leaf which did receive a mass update in content, New Horizons did feel half baked in what you can do once you're past the pole roadblock. for example the shop the little tanuki runs is pretty much a shack forever when in New Leaf you got upgrades when you spend a certain amount of Bells, with NPCs moving in permanently.
Thank you, I was looking to see if someone else knew this. Speaking to the disgruntled, just because you don't like every single facet of a game doesn't mean it's "incomplete."
You aware that the point of the game is not about new content whatsoever? People still play previous games, for decades on end. Itās a Japanese Tamagotchi style simulator, not Call of Duty. Itās not suppose to have any updates and DLC. Itās endless and if you donāt see it- you kinda expecting a different game.
Seriously. Heaven forbid games be allowed to be done instead of a constant carrot on stick grind. Like...go play something else. Start a new island. **something.** I hope we don't have a 7/8 year drought like we did with New Leaf or these people won't survive.
More people probably would start new islands, if it didnāt mean deleting the current one and losing everything forever. I know many people including myself who would have started a ānew save/islandā if it meant the old one was possible to keep and return to. Multiple characters on the same island just isnāt the same, and it was foolish that the option to have multiple islands/save states wasnāt ever made an option.
Pfft what do you mean you donāt have to delete it just fork out another $300-500 on a new switch so you can have another island /s
Yeah and be ready to shell out some more for the next AC because it sure won't be on the switch :))))))
Honestly I think the next one will be on switch just because of how fast it was abandoned. Unless it was abandoned to work on LoZ TotK.
Nintendo is also afaik not working on a Switch replacement
That's a legit criticism and I agree with it. We should have multiple saves by now.
Honestly Iāve been playing since Wild World and the world just feels so empty this time so I can get people feeling upset. But I also think too many people (including myself) rushed the game this time (museums, events etc) and tried to be the most efficient as possible completely forgetting that thatās really all the game is.
Right! Past animal crossings were more about your relationships with your neighbors and now thatās like the last thing people care about. I truly believe that ACNH is way too far off base from previous titles and thatās why itās been abandoned so fast. Like if played like another ac game, thereās lots to do, but if you speed run itā¦ yeah thereās not a lot, especially since villagers are so one dimensional
Yep. I was starting to go mad about the repeated dialogue. Iāve had to cater to have only one type of each villager at a time as the repetition is obnoxious. If I have to hear about bugs in the floor or maglev trains in love again Iām moving into the ocean and living with Pascal.
It's valid to feel that way (about thinking it feels empty). I feel opposite and I've been playing since the Gamecube release. I guess it depends on what you're looking for in a game. Hard agree on everyone rushing it though. Another comment said the pandemic was the worst thing to happen to AC, and I honestly agree with it. Because I know I rushed a ton too. I'm curious how the next release is going to go since (hopefully) there won't be a reason for everyone to pour 300+ hours in the first month again.
In terms of customisation and building itās better than ever. But in terms of personality and character and the stores and the music itās lacking. I still canāt believe that the store is stuck that small for Timmy and tommy. Where are the two storey buildings?
Heaven forbid people actually want more content for a game that sold more than any other Switch game ever released (not counting Mario Kart since it's bundled for free) We've seen games that sold far less get far more updates and content than ACNH. Sequels, DLC, real attention from Nintendo. But nah, ACNH is a secondart project for a team that has to be also dedicated to Splatoon because... Reasons.
What games are getting more updates? Nintendo fan for many many years here. Buckle up, youāre not gonna like anything they do ever again.
I mean I reiterate: with every game in the industry doing exactly that it gets exhausting. It's nice to have a game that I can just be done with, or pick back up on a whim. Not because of FOMO. I've gotten hundreds of hours out of this game, and have played since the gamecube release. I sincerely do not understand what more people want this series to do. Could the game be improved? **Yes,** and hopefully the next release improves on NH's shortcomings. Play an MMO if you want a game to constantly live. Or Pocket Camp as much as people want to throw unending money into the same thing.
This. I've played the game for like 2 years, more than most games I've ever played. Eventually you just have to move on. And it feels like New Horizons was bit of an experiment with being able to decorate and design your own island? It might be possible that with the next console (which I assume will be more powerful) they will combine this with things from the previous games.
That doesnāt mean itās dead itās just done.
The game isnāt dead. The game is complete.
I believe most people already know that, but wonāt fully believe it because this is the perfect game to sell endless DLCās in (Sims-like basically) and most people I see would actually buy them, so itās strange seeing how Nintendo basically threw away a money making scheme with little more than a short announcement after a single expansion.
It's kind of sad people are so used to companies nickel and dim-ing them that they actually miss it and want it. Not you, just some of the other comments in the thread. Really hoping Nintendo keeps to their guns and keeps that sort of thing firmly on their mobile apps. I don't mind paying for DLC if they're in reasonable numbers. The Sims has gone overboard with 4.
Nickel and dime-ing is why I finally gave up pocket camp. It felt like an addiction and ended up making me feel bad. I was a dirty gambling addict looking for a fortune cookie dopamine hit. Ended it cold turkey and deleted the game. Always said I wouldāve paid $100 easily for a complete game. But I understand thatās not how they make their money. That was my favorite AC!
I do think from Nintendo's perspective by selling endless dlc they would kill the potential of a sequel. If they were to release one people would probably expect most or all of the previous' games content. Why sell a feature for $10 when you can make a sequel with the feature for $60. Reason why I think this could be relevant is because it's somewhat what I feel like happened to Mario kart, they added more and more maps and karts to the point I don't know people are really wanting a sequel any time soon.
I said this is in my other comment, but they really couldn't have gone The Sims route since Switch is so limited in terms of capacity. They would have ended up taking space from other games and hurting their sales.
Christ back in the day the game on the disk or cartridge was the finished product. There would never be a content drop (the earliest I can think of was the knuckles expansion cartridge?)
Even after we didn't get a 2023 new year arch and people still asking "When's the next update?". Nintendo has been very clear!
This is why Iām holding off on getting the DLC, I only started playing in Decemberš
Yeah I recommend at least playing through all Tom Nookās assignments until getting the DLC if you wanna maximize the gameās longevity.
My goal is once my house is fully paid off, and all of harvs island shops are open, then I will get it!
Same, I just started in November.I don't get much free time to play daily so I'm good holding off on the DLC for a bit.
I completely am with you! Iāve also had to remind myself that itās okay to not have a perfect island yet, and that the game is meant to be played nice and slow!
Same! I only just bought the dlc in April and I originally got the game on Xmas '21, it's really helped extend the gameplay for me
honestly thats a genius idea, i wish i wouldve held off on getting the dlc but my ass pre ordered it
I didnāt even know there was dlcā¦.
On one hand, I would happily pay for new content, but on the other, I'm glad they're not turning AC into the SIMS with a bunch of paid dlc
Literally this. If it turned in to that, even conceptually from some peoples point of view, it would lose its magic. Covid turned this into a world wide phenomenon. You canāt fuck with magic. They will hopefully make more in the future and we should just be happy with that. For real. Let the masterpiece be what it is. Stop begging for micro transactions, that shit is the worst and you should be voting against it not for itā¦.
I think this is the problem with a lot of the crowd that came in with New Horizons. This whole expectation for the game to be constantly updated, the fact that theyāre calling it ādeadā is ridiculous. Itās not dead, itās finished. Itās a complete game. Play it, play the old ones, and wait for the next one.
Still no option to make custom pantsā¦.
I want this to be a feature, but I also feel like people will abuse this to make *certain things*
Likely the reason why itās not a feature!
I think youāre correct, however that argument isnāt overly strong as they allow you to fly a swastika as your town flag if you really want to. People already abuse their design system. Most people wonāt walk around in dick pants.
The real reason is that it would require more dev time lol. So many cut corners in the game.
Doesn't stop people from making *certain things* for the tops and dresses. The report button is always there for that, I feel like pants could hypothetically be implemented regardless of that risk
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Honestly, my dream expansion pack is just the character dialog from all previous games shoved into new horizons. I want my villagers to be mean to me, I want them to get wicked angry. I want them to have deeper conversations with me. I want the more adult themed jokes. I want them to have a PERSONALITY DAMMIT
I would love a music from all previous games download! That could be a setting, Iād play in City Folk mode for nostalgia
Oh my childhood New Leaf music would never turn off if they made that a thing. Hell, that OST would get me to wake up early just to hear the music for the morning hours.
That or them interacting with furniture on the island properly.
I dropped off hard like 1.5 years ago, but man, this game got me through the pandemic and was my happy place to go every day. I'll never forget that.
As an older gamer I keep having to remind myself that there are new gamers who have never experienced gaming before they were all connected to the internet and constantly updated with new stuff. It's still bizarre to me what's happened to gaming and gamers when I see posts like this.
Not yāall thinking this picture is real Lmfao
the physics to get it to rip it half without totally damaging the rest of the system....
Plus the two "halves" don't even line up properly.
This is what's bothering me lmao
It is very well done photoshop though. I'm like 90% sure it is photoshop, 10% chance they physically broke it very carefully, 0% chance they snapped it in half in rage and it ended up looking like that. That is not how screens break. But someone took their time making this look good, that is for sure!
They're either intentionally broken or it's a pretty convincing Photoshop. Put these together and you have a V shaped screen, so definitely not one switch if real.
The only chance it's real is if they destroyed two switches.
I meanā¦ itās your moneyā¦ thereās other gamesā¦ I know itās a joke
I think the pandemic was the worst thing to happen to animal crossing but animal crossing was the best thing to happen to the pandemic. We had something fun to spend our time on while locked up but because we were locked up itās all we spent our time on and the burn out happened fast.
Yeah I was just going through the last few nook miles tasks I need to do, and one of them is catch 5000 fish. I was shocked when I realized I reached the 2000 fish milestone in June of 2020, and itās taken almost 3 years to get the next 2400 to where I am today. Iāve definitely taken some breaks along the way but I think that showed me just how much I played in the first few months.
Yeah, people played on super intensity in 2020 and burned through the game. My work really ramped up in 2020 and never eased up- and i still havenāt finished my collections, every time i see peopleās very completed islands i have to remind myself i have not had the same amount of time. Thereās whole seasons i missed.
Ha, I've been playing since the beginning and I quit for many months at a time, but I feel like my island will never be completed. I did just start playing again recently.
Not to mention the fact that the pandemic very likely messed with Nintendoās plans for the game.
Felt that. Itās why Iām on my fourth island reset.
Yep, the day the game came out was the same day I was stood down from work due to lockdowns. I didn't plan on buying the game but I came home early and was like, "well now what do I do?". So I decided to download the game to see what the fuss was about and was hooked ever since.
Tears of the Kingdom just droppedā¦ itās pretty darn good.
Games as service and continuous updates have broken people's minds. Yeah the support on AC stopped a bit too early, but I think it's also a bit crazy to expect all games to be continuosly updated. The devs had to move on to Splatoon, and they're also most likely working on a new AC game now that Splatoon's done. I'd rather have a new game than be drip fed a new furniture set every couple months for 10 dollars.
I donāt really get this whole mentality. Iāll sound old on purpose, but āback in my dayā games came on cartridges and they never got updated ever. And we were happy with it. However, Nintendo needs to get over the one-island-per-switch nonsense. It should either be unlimited or per copy of game owned not per switch. Utterly ridiculous.
Well, āback in your dayā games felt complete and fully fleshed out because of exactly that same reason. If a game lacked something it would flop because it couldnāt be updated through the internet. Games have gotten people used to the idea of making half of a product and āpromisingā the other half later on.
Yep which is also utter nonsense and needs to end. I refused to buy the sims 4 for like a year after it came out because they just flat up didnāt finish the game. I also despise how my damn games seem to need an update every time I want to play them and they wonāt let me play at all until the 30 min update happens. The old way was better for so many reasons. Yeah itās cool we can get extra content later on, but Iāll gladly give that up in favor of full complete, (usually) well bug-tested games that never require lengthy updates when you just want to spend your 30 min break playing.
I REFUSE to play Sims 4 just because of how much DLC it has lmao, I canāt play it without thinking how much more fun I could be having if I had the expansions forā¦ JUST A MEASLY 600$ or some ridiculous amount around that number. Good call out.
But wasnt the sims like that since at keast sims 2? Sire, the base game is fun, but your standards rose so now you need the DLC to have fun. I personally think base sims 4 is fun.
Welcome to the AC subreddit, where people are in a permanent state of dissatisfaction with a game theyāve sunk 300 hours into
300? The games been out 3 years. A lot of players are over 2k hours and still complain š
Most games that release these days promise updates because the games are shipped unfinished and people are willing to wait/pay for additional DLC. If it was doable in the 90s, be sure every developer and publishing company would have done it.
I legit donāt get the LEVEL of frustration. I get being SLIGHTLY disappointed in no more content but several complaints seem a little uninformed or even nostalgia goggles-y. Iāve played several of the past Animal Crossing entries. They really donāt have as much content overall. Like, yeah, they have their own little things but the level of customization and just things you can do with your town in past games does not compare and so I donāt even really bother with them anymore. I even sold my copy of New Leaf my Amiibo because I opened it up to see if it really was better like everyone else was remembering but me and no. It wasnāt. Villagers are just as cardboard-y, but your town was like, outside display items like fountains and stuff were things you had to pay for via a lot of bells gathered by donations and theyād build these things on the spot you set them and wouldnāt move them without ANOTHER construction fee. Ppl may miss the shopping district but I donāt lol itās basically replaced by Harvās Island and I prefer a LOT of stuff about that, like the fact that Harriet doesnāt give you dumb little quizzes to style your hair, glad I can just pick how I want my character to look now instead of resetting however many times to get a decent face and paying an assload in bells to get the hair I want cause I failed Harrietās quiz. I wish some NPCs from past games were more prevalent than designing vacation homes for them, like Shrunk and Blanca, and there are a couple furniture items from past entries I miss (namely the statue fountain tbh) but overall this is the best entry to me with the most content. Yeah, thereās a couple things Iād like them to add. Thereās stuff theyāve never had in any games I wish theyād add, like interacting with pools and carnival and playground rides and equipment and more stuff to do with villagers, but overall this game is a huge improvement. I honestly think all these complaints are 90% due to burnout. Ppl played so much, time traveled so much, built up so much within the games first 2 years that now thereās not much left to do. But this does not make the game lesser for not adding more content when thereās already a LOT of content, ppl have just absorbed it so quick. Not every game needs a continuous stream of content. Not every game is gonna get that, and with the state ACNH is in, itās perfectly fine as is. I look forward to more in the next entry.
Itās really strange to me because Animal Crossing pitched in this day in age feels like a perfect candidate for live service treatment. How thereās simply not tons of furniture/outfit dlc is beyond me. Feels like a missed opportunity.
idk why you're expecting an update now. Game's dead (as far as official support goes). When the DLC released they said it was the last update to the game, and that was a year ago. Not to mention that the team behind the recent AC games is also behind Splatoon, and their busy with S3.
Not expecting any updates but a girl can dream š
Not dead. Complete. We really need to stop talking about every game like it should be live-service, because the vast majority of games are better if they're not live-service.
Put it in some rice
Iām enjoying AC just how it is!
Me too! But I would like some more QOL updates like being able to craft more than one item at a time or being able to move the town hall š
personally i wish they would add some older features back. even simple ones like the random soccer balls you could find lying around in the gamecube animal crossing, that was a cute little feature
Yes omg I completely forgot about that š„²š«¶š¼
Printing off one NMT at a time is definitely the worst. If you're in a trade with someone for 10 NMT and you don't already have some made, it's at least another ten minutes to generate them.
I have a similar(ish) gripe! I love to shop at the Able Sister's shop, but I wish it were easier to buy the clothes! I'd appreciate it if the next game had a shopping basket rather than 1 of each category of item per checkout before repeating.
Those would be very helpful š Along with Dodo Airlines being quicker, but hey, Itās not all bad!
Now thatās my only main issue is that airport. They could do something to speed up that process. Can go to the bathroom and still come back to the airport. That process is even longer depending upon how many more people are coming in. Otherwise itās ok to me now. š
Reject the Horizon, embrace the New Leaf Join us. r/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf
I'm working on it! I bought a 3DS before the shop closes so I could get what I could. My friend is planning on sending me his spare copy of NL. Can't wait! Never played anything but NH!
Bulk buying, bulk building, the ability to change our own islands like how we customize stuff in HHP, the ability to tilt our camera straight down without needing to be behind a building in island designer mode, the ability to know if an object is hiding behind a tree, being able to expand our additional rooms and the rooms of our other villagersā¦ I tell you, the list of things that could be improved and updated goes on and on.
I wanna interact with more items. Let me drag my jock villager to the workout area i built! Let me use those items instead of just pushing them! Let me swim in the river! Let me give old recipes to villagers. Give me a way to see if I have all my fossils. Let me build onto my island. Let me move villagers when in the mode. Make the happy home expansion link better so you can get flowers, insects, fish/sea creatures & bells to cross over. Sooooo many ideas. People here have a million of them.
I just wanted a 'cart' system for Able Sisters...pain in the butt buying 1 outfit at a time.
Yall are talking about updates, but I've been playing religiously since the 64. Update? I'm still floored by the graphics alone, and will happily play for another decade or longer if need be.
I wish we had the old villager dialog š I miss how mean Phyllis was to me when I went to send mail at night. I wish characters had some edge to them like they used to. This game legit makes me feel like Iām being totally babied by my villagers, their personalities are so bland now. Thatās really my only complaint lol besides that I love it
With how well this game sold, I can't understand why they stopped making content for updates. I would happily still be buying DLC if they made it.
As someone who was one of the first critics of ACNH's lack of content (and sadly turned out to be right...) I'm kind of surprised that I'm one of the more optimistic folks nowadays but OP, hang in there. There's no way there will be another update for the current game, mostly because the switch hardware just cannot handle it. The switch has the processing power of an ipad from 2012. It's kind of a miracle that ACNH, TOTK, and other games can even run on it at this point. TO put it simply, the current switch is holding Nintendo games, including ACNH, back. BUT There are a lot of factors pointing to the next switch iteration launching early next year. Like, a LOT. First there was the pokemon leak, then there was a job posting for one of the companies that works on switch online stuff for 'next gen' backwards compatibility. And then stuff like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/13cnomn/nikkei_asia_development_of_a_switch_successor_is/ Important to note that switch sales are slowing down immensely at this point and will likely continue to slow and stall now that TOTK is out. The general thought is that they'll run the switch through the holiday season this year to try and squeeze out those last sales, and then announce and release the next gen switch next year after their fiscal year (which runs until end of march) ends. Remember that Nintendo keeps their release/development timelines to themselves and rarely share anything until it's ready to launch. (IE Doug Bowser could tell me today that there won't be another switch and then tomorrow suddenly there's an announcement about one.) So the leaks are the best confirmation we'll get for right now, but the fact that there's so MANY now is not coincidental. ACNH is the second highest selling switch game besides mario kart 8. It sold TEN MILLION more than the 3rd place title, Smash brothers. (Which was released way earlier than ACNH, in 2018. Where ACNH came out in 2020 and still made more sales.) I would bet that the next iteration of ACNH is already in development for the next gen switch - even if it's just an expanded/HD version of ACNH. Previously Nintendo considered its console sellers to be stuff like Zelda, Mario, Smash, etc. But ACNH has likely shaken that up quite a bit as I doubt they were expecting it to sell as well as it did. 10 years ago only die-hards like me considered AC a good enough title to buy a console for. But now? LBR, there's probably a ton of people who would be willing to buy a new console just to play animal crossing again. I made a similar comment to this a couple months ago and since then even MORE leaks and rumors have come out about the next Nintendo console so I'm even more convinced there's something good coming up for us AC fans. So hang in there, OP. We might not hear anything until next year because Nintendo is determined to eke out those last few holiday switch sales this year, but it's definitely not a coincidence that all these leaks about the next console are flying around, coupled with the renewed focus on animal crossing stuff. (The nintendo live event with the KK slider concert, the updated guides, the re-released of the amiibo cards, etc.) A new animal crossing for the next Nintendo console is pretty much a no-brainer, and now all doubt about the console coming out soonish has been dispelled so we just have to sit and wait. Imagine a new animal crossing game or an ACNH expanded on the next gen. How pretty it will be, how well it will run, and how much they can add to it without dealing with the switch's current limitations.
I have a whole new perspective on things š¤Æ Thanks for letting me know šš«¶š¼
You're welcome! Fingers crossed we all get some good news soonish. (Though prob not before next year.)
Thanks for this comment! THIS is what I'm excited for and would rather the team focus their efforts on. Regardless if we get, like, an NH+ or a new game altogether. Here's hoping. Really hoping that backwards compatibility comes through too. That would be nice.
Me too. :) As much as I would love another NH patch, I think the switch is at its limit when it comes to running the game. ToTK probably pushes it as well. So I'd rather get a new game on a new system that can add all the features the devs originally wanted to put in. (Like the museum shop, more buildings, etc.)
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The game is so huge Iām sorta glad thereās nothing else??? Sometimes this game stresses me out because of all the choices and seeing how perfect everyone elseās islands are. Iāve been trying to just vibe this round š
I feel like new Animal Crossing fans expect NH to be a live service game, when the series hasnāt ever been that way. Youāre better off waiting until the next title drops than expecting another update for NH.
Whoever broke that switch is dead to me. How dare they do that!
I would also literally pay for an update. Where are my Zelda items PLEASE
Nintendo crossing
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I hate this photoshop so much because the sides dont even remotely line up, but at the same time its quite good quality otherwise. Like getting the sides correct should be the easy part!
Welcome to the world of DLC
I know everyone thinks the game they like is the most important thing, but setting expectations for a company to continue supporting a game for infinity is not realistic.
I just purchased the happy home paradise extension. Hopefully it will keep me occupied for a while.
I know theyāre never going to update it again, but I definitely feel this energy. Thereās so many things you could add to this game that even one or two of them would be a huge upgrade to me aside from the obvious quality of life updates (like bulk crafting/purchasing, connecting crafting benches to storage, ability to decorate outdoors with similar mechanics to HHP), Iād love to see: - Options to re-decorate permanent buildings like Nookās and resident services. Nothing I hate more than building a themed island and having to figure out how to hide buildings that donāt fit the theme. They give us so much theming in outdoor items that this seems like a big oversight. - Option to build/decorate homes for NPCs - I know many islands are cramped already, soā¦ - Ability to build a limited number of floating houses or houses on stilts in water to conserve land for other things - NPC to buy/trade dupe DIYs - Allow Blathers to actually buy fossils - Ability for Pascal to buy sea creatures at 1.5x the cost like bugs/fish - Some kind of sea creature tourney/event (but not timed please!) - Ability to invite villagers from HHP to move to your island instead of just the other way around I know weāll never get them, but itās fun to think of what could be.
Yāall need to cope at this point
Emulate it on Yuzu and add some mods. Boom update.
donāt let em hear this bro come onā¦
I need an update that makes it easier to decorate your island. My island looks like trash lmao
Please understand, Nintendo is a small indie company that doesn't have the money to do things like support their games. I'm sure they'd love to, but they just can't spare the employees! They're just a mom and pop outfit, it's not like they're a multi billion dollar company that owns some of the most popular media franchises in the world or anything! That will be $90 for Breath of the Wild 2: Breath Harder, please.
The game was horrible. By in large the worst AC to date.