New Trailer from Nintendo of Japan!

[Sweetley]

They're still placed on the second 'cliff' in this artwork though so I'm guessing that's probably meant to signify they're still north trees even if they're placed near the beach in this because of the art's perspective. Unless you mean on Harvey's little island? Those are kinda suspicious but that could just be his campground theme.

Oh, I didn't even saw the cedars at Harvey's house at first, as I just paid attention to him but not the things around him. But yeah, I actually meant those on the cliff. Dang, got excited for a moment because they are near the beach, guess it's really just for this picture. Well, time to fill up the whole north side again with cedars till I reach the limit to the south as in the previous games, haha.

 

[wrenbow]

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[Snowesque]

Ahhh, I got the pigtail hair I wanted. Stitches is there, too!!
It is so cool seeing Harvey return and the two new NPCs!

 

[Stephanie92]

I don't recall having birds fly around town like that one at 19 seconds. Pretty nice. I only remember the little yellow birds and the owls.

 

[Blue Cup]

I think that this trailer (and some of the screenshots released before) pretty much confirms a fully rotatable camera

Nah, it's just the devs using their available tools to give us different looks at the game. If it had full camera control, it would have been prominently featured in the reveal last year.

But honestly who knows? Nintendo is notorious for keeping the most basic of features hidden until the very end of development. I'm sure they spent their extended development time implementing something big though.

 

[Mokuren]

I love how we can all be so excited about a few little informations! But oh my gosh I see bunny my favorit villager ;o; everything looks so beautiful! Nintendo give us moooore.

 

[cornimer]

Woo this was exciting to wake up to on the first day of 2020! I really love the music that plays while Tom Nook shows the villagers his ad, I hope it's in the game. The box art is beautiful I'm getting so excited!

 

[SheepMareep]

I'm just really worried they haven't put as much into it as they have with PC, since that's the real cash cow.

I'm worried we won't get the decent PC items, because they want you to keep playing PC and buying those particular items via the cookies with leaf tickets.

I've been thinking about it for days, and I'm just concerned.

No company would ever put more effort or money into a mobile app game that you could play for free than a main line game worth ~$60 that is played on an expensive console. The pocket camp game has added a ton of new furniture sets and options that I doubt they would leave out just to keep people in PC. It would be like excluding the items in hhd.

If anything PC has been a test run and budget increaser for new horizons regarding different features such as villager interaction with items, monthly event updates, etc. There are now a ton of outdoor items that can be used in the new outdoor furniture feature in NH thanks to PC as well as multiple animations/interactions between characters and these items.

pc introduced the idea of traveling to specific islands, mixed in the hhd request goals, added new fruits, a ridiculous amount of furniture specifically for outdoors, and introduced the concept of crafting.

It may be a cash grab but it is more or less a testing of new features imo.

People play pc to get a taste of the actual AC experience. If they screw up a main line game PC will suffer. And they clearly have put a ton of effort and time into this game.

 

[Amilee]

No company would ever put more effort or money into a mobile app game that you could play for free than a main line game worth ~$60 that is played on an expensive console. The pocket camp game has added a ton of new furniture sets and options that I doubt they would leave out just to keep people in PC. It would be like excluding the items in hhd.

If anything PC has been a test run and budget increaser for new horizons regarding different features such as villager interaction with items, monthly event updates, etc. There are now a ton of outdoor items that can be used in the new outdoor furniture feature in NH thanks to PC as well as multiple animations/interactions between characters and these items.

pc introduced the idea of traveling to specific islands, mixed in the hhd request goals, added new fruits, a ridiculous amount of furniture specifically for outdoors, and introduced the concept of crafting.

It may be a cash grab but it is more or less a testing of new features imo.

People play pc to get a taste of the actual AC experience. If they screw up a main line game PC will suffer. And they clearly have put a ton of effort and time into this game.

It's not the same development team either.
Also I'm pretty sure they said they won't include all items from PC (probably the ones you need Leaf tickets for) but just a few

 

[Aubrey895]

No company would ever put more effort or money into a mobile app game that you could play for free than a main line game worth ~$60 that is played on an expensive console. The pocket camp game has added a ton of new furniture sets and options that I doubt they would leave out just to keep people in PC. It would be like excluding the items in hhd.

If anything PC has been a test run and budget increaser for new horizons regarding different features such as villager interaction with items, monthly event updates, etc. There are now a ton of outdoor items that can be used in the new outdoor furniture feature in NH thanks to PC as well as multiple animations/interactions between characters and these items.

pc introduced the idea of traveling to specific islands, mixed in the hhd request goals, added new fruits, a ridiculous amount of furniture specifically for outdoors, and introduced the concept of crafting.

It may be a cash grab but it is more or less a testing of new features imo.

People play pc to get a taste of the actual AC experience. If they screw up a main line game PC will suffer. And they clearly have put a ton of effort and time into this game.

I agree. They are putting more effort into the main game. I can’t stand pocket camp and I’m not at all worried about new horizons feeling anything even close to pocket camp.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I?m starting to wonder if there may not be any new villagers added in New Horizons. With New Leaf, a few of the new villagers had a prominent presence in the artwork and boxart, and there aren?t any here. Not to mention nothing in any of new screenshots or trailers still.

New Leaf's box art for comparison featuring the brand new Hamlet and Fauna as the most prominent non-special villagers:

Well yes, and no.

Sure Wild World's box art had Stitches in the box art, a new villager introduced to the series. But looking at City Folk's box art, it had no new villagers apart from Axel returning in it. Yet in that game, there were 18 new villagers.

So yes, new villagers can be in the game, despite being in the box art or not.

 

[Neechan]

It's not the same development team either.
Also I'm pretty sure they said they won't include all items from PC (probably the ones you need Leaf tickets for) but just a few

Regardless, that’s a bad business practice then, because then you have all these nice ‘premium’ objects that will be left behind in a mobile game that probably won’t be functioning in a few years, it’s the equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket, you'll lose everything this way.

Other then that, the pupils are growing on me, and am complaining less of the lack of a water reflection (only a little), and I’m really hoping that we have ceiling objects and carpets that are separate like HHD, we know curtains and half increments are in, who’s to say we won’t get these as well?

 

[Boccages]

I'm just really worried they haven't put as much into it as they have with PC, since that's the real cash cow.

I'm worried we won't get the decent PC items, because they want you to keep playing PC and buying those particular items via the cookies with leaf tickets.

I've been thinking about it for days, and I'm just concerned.

I'm not worried about that. Not one bit. And I'll tell you why. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp was a financial disappointment for Nintendo. Consider this. Nintendo might well sell over 12 million copies of New Horizons. Once you take the cartridge, and marketing costs, the portion that's taken by the video game shop, Nintendo is making around 40 $ on each copy sold, maybe even more. That's just south of half a billion dollars in profit for New Horizons. If you compare that to Pocket Camp where all the estimates are pointing to less than 60-70 million dollars in profit... We are not in the same leagues here.

 

[Ably.Saucey]

No company would ever put more effort or money into a mobile app game that you could play for free than a main line game worth ~$60 that is played on an expensive console. The pocket camp game has added a ton of new furniture sets and options that I doubt they would leave out just to keep people in PC. It would be like excluding the items in hhd.

If anything PC has been a test run and budget increaser for new horizons regarding different features such as villager interaction with items, monthly event updates, etc. There are now a ton of outdoor items that can be used in the new outdoor furniture feature in NH thanks to PC as well as multiple animations/interactions between characters and these items.

pc introduced the idea of traveling to specific islands, mixed in the hhd request goals, added new fruits, a ridiculous amount of furniture specifically for outdoors, and introduced the concept of crafting.

It may be a cash grab but it is more or less a testing of new features imo.

People play pc to get a taste of the actual AC experience. If they screw up a main line game PC will suffer. And they clearly have put a ton of effort and time into this game.

Pocket Camp is what those in the media business call a Backdoor Pilot, it's gets new people's interest and revives the interest of those who are aware of it, they used it to do dry runs for different aspects of the game, testing new clothing, new fish etc. They've put so much work into the app, it's without doubt that the mainline will be fantastic!
I'm so glad Harvey's still there, he's my favorite npc, it also hints at amiibo being used in the game. I knew that amiibo would somehow be used in the new game, they were wildly successful and many, many people spent oodles for them; but I wasn't sure how, maybe they get scanned into harvey's island?
I think my chicken money might get turned into switch money....

 

[nintendofan85]

I thought this was a commercial?

 

[John Wick]

I was saying to someone else, they've kept quiet about Amiibo because I think they'll welcome characters back but you can only get with Amiibo like how they did for NL... I'm hoping this is nothing like PC because I just see that as a means to fund this game - which is fine because all apps are like that but since this is a console game, I'm expecting some amazing base material (please don't go down The Sims route)... I would like to see loads of rare items that you can obtain via hard work and some through money but not so much that I end up broke ༼இɷஇ༽
We just need some more info!!! But yes, I've also been worrying about this... (◞︎．‸．◟︎)

Agreed.

I'm also not too thrilled with the brightness of the graphics. Almost no definition or contrast. Very plastic with no depth. Honestly, I hate saying this, but PC looks like they've really made an effort with colors and contrast.

The NH pics look like the brightness is up, and the contrast wasn't turned up. It's dull, almost pastel.

I truly hope this isn't the finished product, with the untidy flowers that look like weeds after you pick them.

Don't jump on me for this, I'm just voicing my concerns. In it's current state, it doesn't look enticing enough for me to buy a switch and play it.

I'm not saying it doesn't have potential, but after almost nine months delay, they don't seem to have done much at all.

Just put the effort into it that you have with PC.
I have seen no improvement on the brightness and plastic graphics since the initial direct.

 

[Aubrey895]

Agreed.

I'm also not too thrilled with the brightness of the graphics. Almost no definition or contrast. Very plastic with no depth. Honestly, I hate saying this, but PC looks like they've really made an effort with colors and contrast.

The NH pics look like the brightness is up, and the contrast wasn't turned up. It's dull, almost pastel.

I truly hope this isn't the finished product, with the untidy flowers that look like weeds after you pick them.

Don't jump on me for this, I'm just voicing my concerns. In it's current state, it doesn't look enticing enough for me to buy a switch and play it.

I'm not saying it doesn't have potential, but after almost nine months delay, they don't seem to have done much at all.

Just put the effort into it that you have with PC.
I have seen no improvement on the brightness and plastic graphics since the initial direct.

I was disappointed at first with how bright the game was and how plastic the palm trees looked. But it really has started to grow on me.

 

[John Wick]

I'm not worried about that. Not one bit. And I'll tell you why. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp was a financial disappointment for Nintendo. Consider this. Nintendo might well sell over 12 million copies of New Horizons. Once you take the cartridge, and marketing costs, the portion that's taken by the video game shop, Nintendo is making around 40 $ on each copy sold, maybe even more. That's just south of half a billion dollars in profit for New Horizons. If you compare that to Pocket Camp where all the estimates are pointing to less than 60-70 million dollars in profit... We are not in the same leagues here.

Yeah, but PC is an ongoing cash cow for nintendo. People will always be buying leaf tickets.

I have feeling in the pit of my stomach that NH isn't going to be all we'd hoped.

The more I see the worse the feeling gets.

- - - Post Merge - - -

I was disappointed at first with how bright the game was and how plastic the palm trees looked. But it really has started to grow on me.

It doesn't wow me.
I installed PC to complete an event on the forum, and although I dislike the leaf ticket and internet side of it, I am still playing it.

The worst part is, I like it better than the what I've seen of NH. That makes me sick, because I didn't intend on keeping PC installed, but I now have something to compare NH to, since I deleted my NL town.

Once more, I'm not seeing anything that has WOW'd me.

One final note. I really hope it isn't all for chicks, as PC has a crapload of chick fashion, and nothing but the boring, generic crap for us guys.

It kinda sucks, as it's NOT a chicks game, but PC is most definately geared more toward the female player.

From what I've seen of NH, the chicks have the fashion advantage like PC, and the guys are still in generic crap.

I hope someone understands what I mean.

 

[isabll]

Late to the party because I haven't been online much these past few days, but damn! I'm so happy they gave us this. Really excited for the new NPCs (pretty sure the new otter-like character isn't Chip, they look way too different) and I really want to find out Harvey's role in NH: why does he live in a cabin on another island? Is it like a resort for tourists? I'm pumped!

 

[jcmbangor]

Thanks for the cover art images folks. Nice to have a new wallpaper on my tablet to start the new year.