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When will Animal Crossing for Switch release? (new poll as of May 26th)

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since the September announcement, we're now in Feb and we still know absolutely nothing about AC:Switch -_-
hopefully there will be more news on the horizon.
 
This is gonna get long, but hear me out.
I think Animal Crossing Switch is going to released sometime between the summer and early fall season, but after E3 (late Q2/early Q3 it's called, I think?). Why? Well for starters...take a look at this article.

Don't worry, these guys are pretty reputable, and typically report on things after they've happened. Anyways, tldr: the article talks about Nintendo's financial business, and reconfirmation on upcoming 2019 games. Scroll down and see the games list for 2019 release. Notice the first three have specific dates/release periods, but everything else just says 2019. Notice also that the 1st party big release games are scheduled for 2019 spring, and late fall/winter 2019/early 2020, kind of like what happened late last year/early this year with SSBU. Bayonetta 3 and MP4 are both TBA, so we can assume those are still in very early development, and we probably won't see them this until much later this year, if we see them at all. But everything else, says 2019. We already got SSBU for winter of 2018/2019, so that's done. And clearly Yoshi and FE got Spring covered. Mainline Pokemon, enough said, that's gonna be THE IT game of late fall/winter 2019. Everybody wants that. I want that.

So Nintendo already has all their first party bases covered for the rest of the year. That just leaves summer. Luigi's Mansion and AC are both hotly anticipated first party games. Knowing Nintendo, they're not just gonna release two hotly anticipated first party games without showing them off, and the biggest event to show off your stuff when you know everyone wants them and you know they're that good? E3, of course. Also knowing Nintendo, they're not gonna release two first party games at the same time, especially when those games appeal to a very similar audience, because Nintendo doesn't want to compete against itself. They're made of money after all, so rather than having you choose between one or the other, they want to you buy BOTH. E3 2019 is from June 11th-13th. I don't know which one is gonna drop first, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's Luigi's Mansion 3. I mean...Luigi is a Mario Brother, after all. Everyone knows him, loves him, and wants to play his game. I know I do. Then, maybe a month or few after that, AC will drop. I don't think AC will come in the late fall, because it'll be too close to Pokemon. And like I said, Nintendo wants you to buy all their games, not pick and choose.

So that just leaves late summer or early fall...personally, with the way they're doing things, I think it'll be early fall. Assuming that LM3 drops first in early-to-mid summer, a lot the target audience is going to snap up the game immediately like they always do so the initial hype will have worn off by then, and people will be looking forward to something new. And since Pokemon will have late-fall/winter covered into the holiday season, I doubt it'll come in that late in the year.

Anyways, that's just my opinion, based on the info that's available. Outside from Nintendo saying so, there's no real way to tell, so I'll just be waiting for them to release whatever info they have, just like everyone else.
 
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With all the talk of a March release (which let's face it, will NOT be happening), I'm personally guessing that we'll be seeing a Direct or something similar with lots of Animal Crossing news around that time. And they'll probably be planning for a release at least three months later, so...my personal prediction will be late June at the earliest. July or August seems more feasible, though.
 
LilD said:
September 13, 2019

Check out @Nintendeal’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Nintendeal/status/1093310660346286087?s=09
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Yeah, don't ever go by retailer listings. Not saying that they didn't get lucky and correctly guess a date, as any one of us in here could do, but they likely don't know it either. Plus the fact that they looked at the logo and applied the "Welcome to" bit to the title is pretty telling that they have no idea.
 
LilD said:
September 13, 2019

Check out @Nintendeal’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Nintendeal/status/1093310660346286087?s=09
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Nothing is better then getting a new Animal Crossing game on Friday the 13th. I hope Bell
Tree Forums gonna open The Woods and make a release party there.

Jokes beside, if this is true, then it's kinda funny how Luigi's Mansion gets a summer release,
meanwhile, Animal Crossing getting such a release date that would fit more to Luigi (especially
because of Friday the 13th). It sounds like possible release dates, but yeah, gonna take it with
lots of salt for now.

I really hope we're getting a Direct soon. We need informations so badly...
 
I think it'd be a good time to bring up now that we are expecting a Direct this week. on Wednesday the 13th to be exact. From the mouth of King Zell himself (the same insider that told us that AC would be in the last Direct) and backed by other credible insiders.

If it's real, then Nintendo seems to be going back to their 2017 day for Directs and holding them on Wednesdays. Guess we'll see for sure come Tuesday morning if/when the announcement is made.
 
Blue Cup said:
I think it'd be a good time to bring up now that we are expecting a Direct this week. on Wednesday the 13th to be exact. From the mouth of King Zell himself (the same insider that told us that AC would be in the last Direct) and backed by other credible insiders.

If it's real, then Nintendo seems to be going back to their 2017 day for Directs and holding them on Wednesdays. Guess we'll see for sure come Tuesday morning if/when the announcement is made.
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Oh, so finally a leak from someone who is kinda trustful? Well, that's interesting, especially
that Nintendo is maybe going to show Directs on Wednesdays again. Hope that King Zell is
right with this, people start to go crazy on the internet without a Direct and I get tired from
all these rumors of a possible Direct coming soon and all those "leaks"... Getting some real facts
from Nintendo now would be really nice.
 
Just wait until it actually comes out and they don’t get what they wanted to see and say “This is the worst Direct ever”

Humph, impatient freaks. *Shakes head left and right*
 
Paperboy012305 said:
Just wait until it actually comes out and they don’t get what they wanted to see and say “This is the worst Direct ever”

Humph, impatient freaks. *Shakes head left and right*
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Well, at this point and how the current situation is, we can guarantee here and now that a big
part of the Animal Crossing fandom will in fact freak out if Nintendo doesn't say anything about
Animal Crossing Switch at all in a possible upcoming Direct. And I'm gonna be honest here, I
would be disappointed too if there are no informations at all but more wondering afterwards
when they will say something about it.

I for myself would be already happy if they just drop the title and say in which season it
comes out, like, a more specific release date would be nice, but a approximate release date
would be already helpful enough.
 
I wouldn’t care if there’s no ac Switch related thing in the direct. I can always wait, which gives me time to work on getting all gold badges in New Leaf (Without hacking, except for the streetpass and Mail. I had to hack to get those because getting street passes are seldom possible and I never mail my villagers)
 
Personally, I feel that they will open the Direct with Animal Crossing and top off the reveal with an autumn release window.

But if there is no mention of Animal Crossing period, then yeah there will be quite a bit of noise because our next sure thing would be their E3 Direct.

And as I said, Zell and a few other noteworthy insiders have backed the claim, including Liam Robertson and NateDrake. What no one has said with certainty however is whether it is a full Direct or a mini one.
 
Well, let's see if King Zell was right and if we will get the announcement for the Direct today...
 
Perrycifer said:
Well, let's see if King Zell was right and if we will get the announcement for the Direct today...
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Yeah, within the next 20 minutes the announcement should drop. Though he didn't specifically say if the Direct was happening on the 13th or if the announcement would come on that day, just that "Number 13 was our lucky number". He nor did any of the other insiders really step in to clarify it exactly, which I guess one could assume meant everyone was right in guessing the Direct is happening tomorrow.

The witch hunts that are going to start if this ends up coming up false are going to be ridiculous. There is a lot of toxicity within the Nintendo fanbase, and they'll be going after the insiders with pitchforks and death threats, which is absolutely ridiculous.

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https://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/02-13-2019/

It's real!
 
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What's so funny about that? Fire Emblem has had a Spring 2019 release window since E3, of course they are going to headline with that with it coming out in the next three months.
 
I knew there wasn’t going to be a Nintendo Direct in January, it just didn’t seem like the month to show it.

Also, Inb4 no AC Switch news in the direct. But would we see any AC related stuff in the direct?
 
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