Two towns per switch...?

[meo]

Personally I think multiple save files would mean more family interaction because, ultimately, it doesn't affect the multiplayer aspect of it.
Lets say we have two kids: Jake and Kate

Jake makes his town. Kate makes a villager in his town. Save file 1.
Kate makes her town. Jake makes a villager in her town. Save file 2.

Jake and Kate play on Jake's save file for a hour helping to build his town ideas. Kate and Jake then play in Kate's save file for a hour to build her town idea. Tons of family cooperation there.

Whereas, you already have that occurring but at a financially difficult cost for some families. Families buying multiple systems so they can build multiple towns and still using online multiplayer to go assist one another with the towns.

To be honest even with multiple systems they get multiple copies of the game sold. So I guess I'm leaning more towards numbers. While I can see them not really pursuing it in the sense of more sales money wise, I could see them doing it for number margins.
The wii was the top selling console which the switch isn't even close to passing. Even 3ds was ahead of switch sales for quite some time which it's just now passing.

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

yup, I see your point. I still feel like they are missing out on a bunch of sales though!

Oh most definitely. Reputation or not, the decision was very idiotic from a business standpoint!

 

[sunnibunniva]

This might be a bit of a stretch but maybe Nintendo sacrificed sales for upholding a reputation? They have been known for "family" consoles so maybe they wanted Animal Crossing to be marketed as a game you can play with the whole family, hence sharing one town and one town only?

they really do seem to be pushing the whole "family game" thing on nh. Kinda annoying considering the majority of players are lonely teens and young adults

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

Personally I think multiple save files would mean more family interaction because, ultimately, it doesn't affect the multiplayer aspect of it.
Lets say we have two kids: Jake and Kate

Jake makes his town. Kate makes a villager in his town. Save file 1.
Kate makes her town. Jake makes a villager in her town. Save file 2.

Jake and Kate play on Jake's save file for a hour helping to build his town ideas. Kate and Jake then play in Kate's save file for a hour to build her town idea. Tons of family cooperation there.

Whereas, you already have that occurring but at a financially difficult cost for some families. Families buying multiple systems so they can build multiple towns and still using online multiplayer to go assist one another with the towns.

To be honest even with multiple systems they get multiple copies of the game sold. So I guess I'm leaning more towards numbers. While I can see them not really pursuing it in the sense of more sales money wise, I could see them doing it for number margins.
The wii was the top selling console which the switch isn't even close to passing. Even 3ds was ahead of switch sales for quite some time which it's just now passing.

Totally. Let's be honest, we all would prefer to have multiple towns and multiple villagers per each town, but Nintendo seems to always be 3 steps forward in one aspect and 2 steps back in the next. We probably won't get that feature.

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they really do seem to be pushing the whole "family game" thing on nh. Kinda annoying considering the majority of players are lonely teens and young adults

I did not expect to be attacked like this. xD

 

[sunnibunniva]

I did not expect to be attacked like this. xD

it's true though loneliness was the whole inspiration for the original game

 

[cheezu]

How does it work if you have two Switches but one Nintendo account? Should we make a separate account just for the second game or would they still work?

 

[shendere]

i was so disappointed finding this out myself. i genuinely cannot find their logic behind it, someone tried saying it was because of something about the switch and how it saves or something but another pointed out that other games like even Pokémon, etc new game = new files, so it's not like every switch game means only one. Hopefully they have a good reason and maybe can announce why they chose to do it this way, someday. I do agree if they would've done it new file per game, a lot of copies would have sold. I literally had about 3 copies of New Leaf. The game is 60, imagine the large fan base buying several copies of it, I think it would've easily outnumbered a silly switch design lol, anyone could've just done a much better skin for their switch, even with animal crossing designs in colors of their choice too.

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

How does it work if you have two Switches but one Nintendo account? Should we make a separate account just for the second game or would they still work?

I believe you would need a second account.

 

[meo]

How does it work if you have two Switches but one Nintendo account? Should we make a separate account just for the second game or would they still work?

You would link your same nintendo account. It will ask if you want to make it your primary console or not. You can redownload the digital copy or use your physical copy between the two.
The only thing that gets affected by primary/nonprimary is the one you set to primary, other user profiles on the switch can play it too. The one you set to not primary only your profile can use and other profiles on it can not for digitally bought games.