[Update: One Island per Switch] Your Nintendo Switch, Profiles & Save Data

[Pellie]

Well, that sucks. But maybe they gonna change it in the time before the release. Would be nice,
as I kinda planned to make at least a second town (or more like island now).

If it stays the same (like only one island per Switch), I do wonder how big the island actually will
be if all 8 human characters which you can make in total are supposed to live all together at one
island. Especially since we also don't know yet how many animal villagers you can have this time.

 

[ali.di.magix]

I'm kinda disappointed at this, but not necessarily surprised. This was one of the things that was on my mind, and I was sincerely hoping that each Switch profile would generate a new island.

Oh well, this gives me an incentive to buy my own (AC special edition) Switch for myself

 

[DJStarstryker]

Huh. I figured that what the original post said, about having 1 save per Switch user account, would probably be true. But I figured you'd be able to make more towns with another Switch account.

My house will most likely end up with 2 Switches at some point for playing Pokemon reasons, so I could get 2 towns that way. But yeah, most people could definitely not afford that. It's going to cause problems for a lot of big AC fans. There's so many people with secondary towns so they can do villager cycling or just have a different town theme or whatever the case may be.

It appears that New Horizons will be way more customizable than New Leaf. In New Leaf for example, you can have the problem of creating a mayor, and then getting annoyed about the mayor's house placement, but not being able to do anything about it without deleting the whole town. It seems like you can move your house at will. That's great! Since you can move trees, maybe you can move rocks! But of course, you presumably can't do anything about your map still. If you decide you hate how your river is, I imagine you'd have to reset your town. If you can't have a secondary town to save some of your stuff on, it could make it harder to let go and just be stuck with a town you hate for a long time.

 

[Seastar]

Aw no, I was thinking my brother and I could have our own towns (islands now). Also very disappointed this means the other characters living on the island must have a Nintendo Network account and a paid subscription in order to go online. Imagine wanting to have 8 characters and use them all online but you need 8 emails??? Also, could this mean we can't name our player character and it just uses our Switch account's name? I actually wasn't wanting my character's name to match that.
I hope something changes about this before the game comes out, but I kinda doubt it right now.

 

[Chouchou]

I don't really care if you can have a second town or not. I mean, for me it's better because it makes me rethink it I want to start over or not. I'm really going to try to keep 1 town from the start this time.

 

[Lucas4080]

Hmm, how would transferring accounts from one switch to another work?
Say for example, User A has a island but wants to transfer their data to User B's switch. User B also has an island. When User A transfers their data and user to User B's switch, would User A's town be wiped in favor of living in User B's town?

 

[Speeny]

Disappointed but I can accept it.

 

[EpicGamer12]

Before Blu made this thread I am pretty sure I wrote in an older that it’s possible it could be one save per Switch. It will be funny to see how many people buy multiple Switches just to have an extra town. I’m also curious if Nintendo will offer multiple saves for an added fee.

 

[Justin]

Locking this thread as the info is out of date now and has essentially been replaced by this topic highlighting the news: https://www.belltreeforums.com/show...ther-Switch-to-have-a-second-island-confirmed