you each have your own character though. and your own house.
it's a little different than pokemon.
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[Confirmed] Animal Crossing: New Horizons will force every individual Switch user account to share the same island
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you each have your own character though. and your own house.
it's a little different than pokemon.
I didn't say exactly. Its always been a cool part of the game anyway. It does suck for those who didn't want to share.
It's always been a pointless limitation. But I didn't know that game series should never change.
If you want to have everyone on one town, cool. You can do that, no one is stopping you. Having the option for people to have their own space does nothing to take away from your experience.
Worse, they're capitalists. They've got units to moves.
This is entrapment.
I am imagine there was uncertainty since the Switch will be the first Nintendo platform with a mainline Animal Crossing game to feature system-level user profiles. The GameCube, DS, Wii, and 3DS all used different save data based upon which memory card or cartridge was inserted.
Listen, I get it, its dumb to restrict the game to 1 town per console. On the other hand, just share an island with the people you share a Switch with and enjoy it you dorks. Who is using your Switch that you don't want fuckin up your town experience?
Nintendo could do better.
Nintendo could do better.
Fuck me. I live in a house with three other people. One person doesn't work (stay at home husband that maintains the house) so he has at least 8 hours more per day and loves to build (500+ hours in Switch Minecraft). He's going to dominate my save file. :(
I'm bummed as hell about this.
it was a little annoying in New Leaf just because only one person got to be the mayor
my girlfriend never got to do any Isabelle stuff and it bummed her out
But good news, now you have an excuse to buy yourself that amazing AC switch.
Yeah that was super dumb on their part. At least this game seems to have dropped the Mayor aspect for the crafting.
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Yeah. It really is ridiculous. I know community is a huge part of Animal Crossing, but the parts I appreciate more by far are the self-expression and building-an-empire-from-scratch aspects.
This doesn't impact me specifically, as I live alone, but my three sisters:
- All share a Switch
- All adore Animal Crossing
- All have completely different personality types, aesthetic sensibilities, and creativity styles
Since the main hook in this game is literally designing almost every aspect of your island precisely how you want it, this forced limitation seems completely antithetical to the game's core philosophy.
I was going to say this as well. It's certainly not the greatest "feature", but it has always been this way.
I understand why people might take issue with a design decision like this, but I also understand why it's like this, and it doesn't bother me much.
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I reported this thread about 40 minutes ago asking for the title to be changed to "[Confirmed]". Is that not the proper way to request a thread title change, or are the mods just busy?
Ya'll worried about having to share your island meanwhile I'm over here wishing I had someone to share my Switch/Island with 😭
I loved seeing my brother, sister and mother's houses across mine on the GameCube game. I guess having the option of separate islands would be a good thing, but this is absolutely the way to go for me.
That is the proper way - thanks for doing so -, and yes.
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Woo, the system works!
FYI for any mods reading this—I wasn't trying to be impatient. I've just never requested a thread title change before so I wasn't sure If I had done it correctly!
Honestly man I'm bout to adopt that mentality too lol. Just accept it what else can we even do at this point. Game gonna break the last animal crossing record sales wise. You just come to accept this stuff from Nintendo titles and they'll never be enough noise to affect them in anyway
I'm personally fine with it, but they should give you a choice. I feel for everyone who wants their own little island ever since my sister deleted my 4+ year old OG Animal Crossing save file ages ago after I specifically told my mom not to let her touch it while I was out lmao.
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I was about to ask this. I don't have much interest in this game, but I was going to buy it solely to play with a friend.
Wait you can't have another island even if you have two copies? That's a rather intense and poor decision as far as I'm concerned :/..
Aww I can relate. We should visit each other's islands 😌
Saves are kept on the system itself, not the carts, so using a different cart would have no effect on the saves.
Yeah, that's not an Animal Crossing team decision, that's how the Switch architecture was designed. If you put in my Mario Kart cartridge into your Switch, if you already had a copy of MK, it'd just load your save anyway.
sooooo
I have a regular and lite switch, both have my eshop account.
can she have her own world on her switch and mine on the other?
Really confused by the reactions here.
This is exactly what we all expected. This is exactly what precious AC games did. I also don't see what the necro bump added other than re-confirming what we knew.
I loved sharing an island with my girlfriend or roommates. That was a huge benefit in previous games.
Old thread title had me worried for a minute and thought they had created a weird gated system for online AC interactions.
This is exactly what we all expected. This is exactly what precious AC games did. I also don't see what the necro bump added other than re-confirming what we knew.
I loved sharing an island with my girlfriend or roommates. That was a huge benefit in previous games.
Old thread title had me worried for a minute and thought they had created a weird gated system for online AC interactions.
Yes. There are no cloud saves so both Switches will have different towns regardless of what Nintendo account is used.
Nope. The reason for that is the saves are tied to the system level for switch rather than on the cartridge or on a separate memory card. So having multiple copies does nothing for the save file. Why each user can't have one on the switch is beyond me though.