Blue Cup
Walking the Four Seasons
Correct. Each will need their own My Nintendo account assigned to it AND a paid subscription for each account.
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[Update: One Island per Switch] Your Nintendo Switch, Profiles & Save Data
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Correct. Each will need their own My Nintendo account assigned to it AND a paid subscription for each account.
Blue Cup
Walking the Four Seasons
Bumping this up for further exposure.
Good to know. I'll be buying the digital copy. I'm somewhat glad that the save files will be stored on my Switch instead of on the cartridge. (That's if I bought physically. The carts could break so easily.)
I'm also hoping for cloud saves...but who knows. If I'm not mistaken, only being able to create one town per account may be a big setback. But, I can imagine having multiple towns on the one console being way too much data at the same time.
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Yikes. I have a digital copy of ACNL also & will be buying digital for the Switch but the data corruption has never happened to me. Do you know what the cause of it was? System updates?
I'm also hoping for cloud saves...but who knows. If I'm not mistaken, only being able to create one town per account may be a big setback. But, I can imagine having multiple towns on the one console being way too much data at the same time.
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Yikes. I have a digital copy of ACNL also & will be buying digital for the Switch but the data corruption has never happened to me. Do you know what the cause of it was? System updates?
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I feel like its really unlikely to happen but I get paranoid about buying digitally for this reason.
AnimalCrossingPerson
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3DS digital game save data getting corrupted suggests something is wrong with the SD card. In the Switch's case, this isn't really relevant, as regardless of physical or digital the save data gets stored on internal storage.
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Oh. I thought I was in the "Will you be buying the physical or digital release?" thread.
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Oh. I thought I was in the "Will you be buying the physical or digital release?" thread.
Blue Cup
Walking the Four Seasons
If you wind up with a corrupt save file, chances are the user is at fault; prematurely closing your 3DS or anything they slightly alters the power of the console on the user's end will damage a save file.
Maiana
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Per IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/0...layer-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons-e3-2019
"...you can make up to eight playable accounts on one Nintendo Switch and they will be able to live on the same island. You cannot have multiple islands, however."
So unfortunately, we cannot have multiple towns, which kind of sucks.
"...you can make up to eight playable accounts on one Nintendo Switch and they will be able to live on the same island. You cannot have multiple islands, however."
So unfortunately, we cannot have multiple towns, which kind of sucks.
Ouch. The cost of a second town just went up from the cost of a New Leaf cart (~$20) to the cost of a Switch system ($300). That's a hefty increase.
It really makes you miss GameCube, when you could have a second town for the cost of a memory card ($15 or so).
Blue Cup
Walking the Four Seasons
What a revelation. I'll update the thread with the new information as soon as I get back to my pc... And out of this bout of sudden depression.
Unless a mod wants to take care of it before then.
Unless a mod wants to take care of it before then.
Paperboy012305
Maining Male Villager since 2015
This marks up two questions:
1: Can you still create new players the old fashioned way.
2: Can you create another town if you have another physical copy of the game, or you need a new Switch system.
Wow... that is extremely disappointing. I updated the title for you for now.
As Jeff points out, it's pretty brutal when an entire new system is required. Although City Folk on the Wii was the same right?
Regardless, this is sure to upset a lot of people who started with New Leaf where side towns on another cart were standard affair.
As Jeff points out, it's pretty brutal when an entire new system is required. Although City Folk on the Wii was the same right?
Regardless, this is sure to upset a lot of people who started with New Leaf where side towns on another cart were standard affair.
1. What's the old fashioned way mean?
2. No, you need a new Switch system. This is addressed by the OP -- saves are stored on the internal storage, not the physical copy.
Paperboy012305
Maining Male Villager since 2015
As in, you create a new character by scratch. You talk to Rover on the train, go to Town Hall, get your house placed and become a new resident of that town.
That's the old fashioned way.
Let me rephrase the question:
Is the new way to create new players only by creating new Switch accounts?
I think it's implied that eight players living on an island means each account is its own player, having that character sequence of course.
Yes, City Folk was that way too, unfortunately. I suppose some people will buy another Switch system anyway, especially if there's an Animal Crossing themed model. But this method is far from ideal. I'm hoping Nintendo changes course and comes up with an alternate solution--paid DLC perhaps? I think it would be a top-seller.
There's 9 months to go, so I do think it's possible they could switch the game to unique save files on each profile, like how Blue Cup originally predicted in this thread. You could still have multiple players on an island, just have to select the 'owner' profile.
We just gotta make enough of a ruckus about it that we get their attention... which I can see happening given how much this fan base treasures multiple towns.
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