Release Date / Game Reveal Timing Speculation and Discussion

[gobby]

Hard to say! It'd be awesome if it came out around at least q3 but realistically it may more like q4 to early 2020, but I'll be happy whenever it does release

 

[Yuki Nagato]

I'm starting to think it's going to be delayed until 2020. A 2019 release would be too good to be true.

 

[kappnfangirl]

Expecting a direct next week, I wonder if we'll hear any news on AC, I'll remain optimistic.

 

[Sweetley]

Expecting a direct next week, I wonder if we'll hear any news on AC, I'll remain optimistic.

Would be nice to finally get some news. At least a title and some gameplay would be great.

 

[ztc0611]

I think Q3 and Q4 are going to be way too packed. I doubt Q1 because it's so soon, though.

 

[lars708]

Would be nice to finally get some news. At least a title and some gameplay would be great.

Yeah we've been waiting for so long now

Nice avatar btw

 

[Sweetley]

Yeah we've been waiting for so long now

Nice avatar btw

Interesting enough, Nintendo just dropped the release dates of Yoshis Crafted World (March 29th)
as well as of Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn (March 8th) out of nowhere on Twitter. People are confused
since normally, they would show something like these in a Direct. Now they speculate if it either
means that there will be (still) a (Mini) Direct this week or sometime this month or no Direct at
all and Nintendo just gonna drop more dates like this. I mean, I don't care if they show any
informations via a Direct or by just dropping a post on Twitter, as long as they would just say
something about Animal Crossing at all, that would be nice...

Thanks! Like your avatar too! ^^

 

[Soot Sprite]

I'm hoping for an actual direct sometime soon with at least some information on it. Realistically I feel like because we've seen so little about it Q3 is the earliest it'll come out, but I can still hope for something sooner. If Yoshis crafted world and Kirbys extra epic yarn already has release dates if a direct did come out maybe they could focus a little more on Animal crossing.

 

[pawpatrolbab]

I say Q2

 

[MapleSilver]

Since we have no way of knowing for certain yet, I'm going to expect Q4. That way I will either have my expectations met, or be pleasantly surprised. That is if they don't delay it unexpectedly...

 

[EpicGamer12]

I think June is the absolute earliest I can see this game releasing, but I'm still expecting Q4. I am hoping for some news. With a game coming out in 2019, I think March would be the absolute latest date they would release more info about it.

 

[Soot Sprite]

I would love a summer release, but the lack of AC Nintendo direct (or any) is a little concerning. I know there will be one for indie games tomorrow and I guess there's a possibility they could slide in a little animal crossing information at the end again, but I won't get my hopes up. I think it's pretty safe to assume that the new AC game has been worked on for a while, so I feel like we should at least be seeing something. Spring and summer make the most sense, I really doubt it's going to be release in November because of Pokemon. They're both too big to be released any time near each other. But the longer we go without new information or a direct the more I think it's going to be pushed farther into 2019 or even early 2020.

 

[sickbullet]

Spring or Summer I'd say, Winter is not a good time because playing the game leading up to Winter is always exciting.

 

[Croconaw]

I chose Q3. I can?t see there being a holiday release. Maybe it will releases a bit before that.

 

[PerfectPeaches:3]

I'm so excited!

I can not wait for the new animal crossing game and to see what they bring to the switch! I wonder if they will do any online play as well as the first one you cant do as much stuff online together as I would like. Maybe they will even bring a online mode where you can run a town together with your friends! That would be great, all I know is I will be keeping my eye on this thread to see any updates about future release dates for the new animal crossing!

 

[emmasaurus]

I think that AC Switch is going to get a Q2 release. Here's why I think so:

1. Nintendo likes to release games close to announcing them.
Switch announced in Jan, released in March
ACNL announced in October, released in November
SSBU announced in June, released in December
Let's Go announced in May, released in November

so if Nintendo followed a timeline similar to SSBU, then we could see an April-May launch of AC Switch. Putting it in a Q2 release.

2. Nintendo has already said that they are aiming to sell another 20 mil switches in 2019. They have also said that they aren't going to release an upgraded switch to do it as well. I think this means that nintendo needs to be putting out more big games throughout the year to entice the people who haven't bought one yet.
From what I have seen on the internet, it seems like some hardcore AC fans are holding out for an AC Switch System (I have a switch but I'm fully plan on buying it) and starting the year strong with AC Switch sounds like a good move.

3. Let's not forget about what will certainly be releasing in November: A Gen 8 Pokemon game. The first addition to the pokemon timeline since Sun and Moon. I just can't see Nintendo releasing AC Switch in the same month because I'm thinking Nintendo might do an AC Switch system and a Gen 8 Pokemon Switch system and it would be silly for them to release both in the same month.

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The SSBU direct was barely a month before the game released so I think we should start to worry if we don't see a AC direct by March/April.

 

[Blue Cup]

I think you are confusing "reveal" for announcements", but I get what you are trying to say and for the most part, you are correct. That has very much been Nintendo's philosophy the last several years.

But for clarities sake, the Switch was revealed in October 2016, then received the big info dump three months later in early January. Same for Smash when it was revealed in March last year, but didn't get it's full info dump until E3, which was three months later.

So what do both of these have in common? The three month period between announcement and reveal. We're at five months, going in six, since the September Direct. We're long overdue.

 

[Neechan]

I read that the reason there was no direct at all this month was due to Metroid Prime 4 being moved around to work with Retrogames, hence why a few games were announced via twitter

 

[ilpo]

3. Let's not forget about what will certainly be releasing in November: A Gen 8 Pokemon game. The first addition to the pokemon timeline since Sun and Moon. I just can't see Nintendo releasing AC Switch in the same month because I'm thinking Nintendo might do an AC Switch system and a Gen 8 Pokemon Switch system and it would be silly for them to release both in the same month.

This is fair point.

 

[Soot Sprite]

I totally intend to buy an animal crossing switch when/if one comes out. That's the main reason I didn't get the pokemon bundle. Right now I have one I share with my boyfriend, and I can justify treating myself to a super cute themed one, but I can't really justify buying three switches. I would rather hold out for an animal crossing one and if that doesn't happen either get a different bundle or get a regular one and mod it with a skin or a shell.