But now you can also collect crafting resources and DIY recipes, decorate outdoors, and complete achievement-style quests. You can still fish, catch bugs, travel to an island for resources, and decorate your home. In my review, I noted that New Horizons supports longer play sessions than the early game in New Leaf. But I’ll add that Nintendo has made some subtle additions and tweaks to Animal Crossing’s formula that make New Horizons feel fundamentally different. I’m not going to restate her, so go read that as well. Vice Gaming’s Gita Jackson does a great job of explaining that here. The FOMO is not completely external to New Horizons. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is different Social media has metastasized into more parts of our lives than ever.Īnd that makes it easier than ever to get the fear of missing out even in Animal Crossing.

#ACNL /scDHingFElĮven as the Switch makes it easier to post screenshots and clips, social media has also … I don’t want to say “hit its stride.” That implies it’s taking a jaunty stroll into the future. The sales during this launch period are better than all of the other Animal Crossing titles combined, which doesn't even factor the digital sales of the game.Learn in your house! Must've E3 streetpassed. According to Christopher Dring from , the sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons were 3.5 bigger than those of New Leaf during the same time period in the UK. It seems that the love for Animal Crossing is as strong as ever, as the game has seen phenomenal success in the UK during its launch week. Related: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players Discover The Game Isn't As Wholesome As We Thought The last console Animal Crossing (if you discount the awful Amiibo Festival spin-off) was City Folk on the Wii. Much like the release of Pokémon Sword & Shield as the first Pokémon games on a home console, there was a lot of anticipation for the first mainline Animal Crossing game on a home console in over a decade, in the form of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. The Animal Crossing series has been one of Nintendo's most popular franchises, but it has been stuck on handheld systems for a while now.

The Nintendo Switch's 2020 schedule is currently extremely bare, but Tom Nook and his friends might be holding up the entire year in terms of sales, as the UK launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is over three times more successful than that of Animal Crossing: New Leaf during the same timeframe.

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