Do you think its worth it?

[jefflomacy]

I tend to think of video games and consoles as forms of entertainment, and the only real metric I can judge that by quantitatively is dollar per hour. If you just bought Animal Crossing a Switch, let's say your expenditure was $450 with taxes included on everything. By the end of the game's life span, you will almost certainly spend more than 500 hours on it, meaning you were entertained for under a dollar an hour. Aside from music streaming services and Netflix, I don't think you will find entertainment any cheaper anywhere than that. Unless you find activities like arranging peanuts entertaining... you can do those for free.

 

[Brookie]

I tend to think of video games and consoles as forms of entertainment, and the only real metric I can judge that by quantitatively is dollar per hour. If you just bought Animal Crossing a Switch, let's say your expenditure was $450 with taxes included on everything. By the end of the game's life span, you will almost certainly spend more than 500 hours on it, meaning you were entertained for under a dollar an hour. Aside from music streaming services and Netflix, I don't think you will find entertainment any cheaper anywhere than that. Unless you find activities like arranging peanuts entertaining... you can do those for free.

LOL for some reason the arranging peanuts made me lol

 

[Hsn97]

Yes and no. I always said that I?d be interested in getting a switch, but not until an AC game was released for it. Because although there are other switch games that I?d be interested in playing - Breath of the Wild, Pokemon Sword & Shield, Witcher 3, Spyro - AC was the game I would probably spend most time playing. So for me, I probably wouldn?t bother buying a switch if it didn?t have AC. But I probably also wouldn?t bother buying it if it didn?t have anything other than AC that I was interested in playing.

 

[Yuni]

I am probably going to say no; try before you buy, maybe read reviews/watch lets plays because of the new mechanics to see if it is a game worth it for you. Honestly why I still haven't bought a ps4 because I'll only play kh3 but i'd only play through it maybe once...

 

[lars708]

If you want a genuine answer to the question you are probably asking in the wrong place. Cause y'know a lot of the users here are Animal Crossing fans.

But yes there are many other great games on the Switch. It's hard to say for sure if it's worth it for you specifically though because you haven't really provided much background information. Such as if you even have interest in other games or only want to get the system exclusively for Animal Crossing.

 

[RETSAMDET]

I think it's worth the investment if you're a big Animal Crossing fan, and know that you'll enjoy the new game. Obviously, this assumes that buying a Switch isn't a huge strain on your budget/won't prevent you from paying necessary expenses.

For me, one game that I'm really excited about is generally enough to make me buy the system, with the expectation that once I have the system, I'll find other titles I'm interested in. For the Switch, the announcement that made me move from "I'll probably get this at some point" to "I need to find a Switch ASAP" was the reveal of Super Mario Odyssey. I knew that down the road, I'd definitely want a Switch for Pokemon and Animal Crossing, and I also liked other series like Zelda (I had a Wii U, so BOTW wasn't a system seller for me, though I did end up double-dipping), but if Odyssey was the only Switch game I had known about, I still would have gone out and bought a console to play it. Had Animal Crossing been the first of those major Nintendo franchises announced, I probably would have bought a Switch just so I could play it.

AC also has a great deal of longevity, which makes it a fairly safe choice to jump into. And realistically, if you know you like Animal Crossing gameplay, you can be fairly sure you'll enjoy the game, even with limited information available. So I would grab a Switch, but also start keeping your eyes open for other titles that might be appealing. After all, other games seem much less daunting to try out when they represent a $60 investment rather than a $360 (game + console) investment.

 

[jcmbangor]

For me...worth it. I bought a gamecube and a Gameboy Advance when Animal Crossing came out back in the day just for the game. Except for Wild World and the original ds, I have bought every version and console since. AC is the only game I play and like many here...I can grind it into the ground! So, I have my pre-orders in for the AC Switch and game and am looking forward to it just for this game.

 

[ForbiddenSecrets]

I tend to get every console I've ever bought 'for' one game. The one game that convinces me to pull the trigger. That said I've never stopped with just the one after I actually have the console. There are a lot of switch games out there and I'm sure at least several will appeal to you beyond just AC.