Do you think there's ANY hope at all....

[thoughtfulgrapes]

I doubt it, but I wish they would. Because it was never like this in past games. It’s a really stupid setup they’ve got that’s clearly just to force people to buy multiple switches for one household. Think about it: in acnl, one game card could only have one town on it, right? So if you wanted another one, what could you do? Did you have to buy another console? No, of course not, that’d be ridiculous. You could just buy another separate game, so you’d have two islands, one on each cartridge (In fact, I literally did this; I’ve got two acnl cartridges). But if you buy another acnh cartridge on the switch, it doesn’t give you another island. Because game save data isn’t stored on cartridges anymore, it’s saved on the actual console. But that’s why they gave us profiles for different family members, right? But not for acnh apparently? It’s not like this for any other switch games; take Zelda Breath of the Wild or Pokémon SwSh for instance. You can have multiple saves in those games as long as it’s on a different account profile, right? So... why not ACNH? It’s actually so dumb, it infuriates me.

edit: in terms of how much memory it’d take, that’d just cause people to buy more memory cards from them. but nope, they’d rather force people to buy a whole other switch I guess.

 

[Bilaz]

I don't think it's an economic decision really? Look at the how many islands do you have thread, it's mostly 1 or 2 if people just happened to have another switch. It's just a part of the game's design? Animal Crossing has always been meant to be played with multiple people in one town. It isn't meant as a personal island designer really? City Folk only had one town per wii, it's just a fun side effect of how cartridges work for the portable devices and how the gamecube game needed a memory card that you could have multiple towns. It's meant to be multiplayer in the same place? I'd love to have someone to share my game with :/ always did

 

[daffodilcrossing]

i just wish they will let us exchange un-use player house slots to villager slots Cause not like every ACNH player will play with another 7 people on same switch lol

That’s actually a really good idea I didn’t even think of that. And it would be a fair trade off too because like Nintendo is already saying that there’s enough space on your island for 7 other people, but not 7 other villagers? They should definitely make that a feature because I feel like it’s very rare that people will have 7 others sharing the same switch so everyone should get at least one extra villager slot. I just want more villagers lol!

 

[JKDOS]

im glad this thread was made because ive never considered the size issues of having two islands on one switch. mine lags whenever i get up high with minimal stuff in the background, i dont even want to know how two islands would fare

Considering both islands won't be loaded into memory and hitting the CPU at the same time, it would make no difference whether there be 1 island or 100 islands.

 

[TheSillyPuppy]

I would highly doubt it. I would guess that it would be a fairly sizable, if not huge, development effort to change how the island to cloud save mechanism works.

Also personally, I see this would only benefit players who want multiple islands to themselves. Folks who share a console and have an island each to themselves on said console would run into similar issues as folks who currently each have an island representative on a single shared island with respect to who gets to play at what time.

 

[Rajescrossing]

I don’t think so they will do but I really wish for , it’s expensive to buy second switch just for second island.
For me, right now I’m interested to doing cottage-core theme island, after sometime when I get bored will start over again and choose different theme again , I know it’s too much work and effort again but only that way you can at least enjoy playing it

 

[Mezzanine]

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