You'll have to buy another Switch to have a second island - confirmed

[Jesusrey91]

So, I just read this in IGN:

"...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."

I haven't even bought my first Switch lol

Link to IGN article

 

[Aubrey895]

That’s disappointing. But I feel like I overdid it with new leaf. I had five towns at once. So idk. I’m okay with this.

 

[visibleghost]

that's stupid ):<

 

[HopeForHyrule]

Well...that kinda sucks. But I guess this just gives me a reason to keep my NL towns active.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I see, so my question has been answered, even though it already had before.

 

[Jesusrey91]

I see, so my question has been answered, even though it already had before.

Before it was hinted at but never spoken. Now it is really really confirmed

 

[Ashariel]

Could u just not buy a physical copy and buy an online copy or 2 physical copies of the game?

 

[ztc0611]

There seems to be some vague hintings of island hopping. I hope that's the case because it would fix all the problems pretty easily.

 

[Jesusrey91]

Could u just not buy a physical copy and buy an online copy or 2 physical copies of the game?

Nope, because the saves aren't in the cartridge, they're in the Switch

 

[Ossiran]

Could u just not buy a physical copy and buy an online copy or 2 physical copies of the game?

This isn't like the 3DS where game saves were stored on the cartridges for the many of the games. The Switch saves everything on the system, so switching between a cartridge and digital version does nothing but change where the system reads the game from.

 

[Dacroze]

Could u just not buy a physical copy and buy an online copy or 2 physical copies of the game?

The Switch's save system does not work like this. You might want to read this post (beware that the post was made before anything about ACNH was known, but everything regarding the Switch's save system is still correct): https://www.belltreeforums.com/show...h-Your-Nintendo-Switch-Profiles-amp-Save-Data

Edit: Seems like Ossiran was faster

 

[Bcat]

bit of a bummer honestly

 

[Paperboy012305]

The big question here is. Will this have a major impact on sales?

 

[Neechan]

We all knew it was coming, it was a matter of when it would be confirmed

 

[will.]

the only way it seems to have multiple islands is to have a softhacked switch and use a save manager to backup and restore saves from new horizons.... interesting that we can't just buy two versions of the game, and this also makes it weird that i can't bring just my game to another persons console because their save will be loaded onto my game.

 

[Akira-chan]

While this does suck i can understand it a little. it takes a lot of memory to store a town and have all the needed stuff in it. kinda seems impossible for me now at least.

 

[Amilee]

ok that totally ruins my hype for this game... i was so excited to have more towns.. i have a lot of new leaf towns already and i love making new towns with new themes.. now i cant even buy a new game to have a new town???
this... this is really really bad for me...

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the only way it seems to have multiple islands is to have a softhacked switch and use a save manager to backup and restore saves from new horizons.... interesting that we can't just buy two versions of the game, and this also makes it weird that i can't bring just my game to another persons console because their save will be loaded onto my game.

can you even do this tho?? i know this works with 3ds but im not sure if thats how it works with the switch too

 

[will.]

ok that totally ruins my hype for this game... i was so excited to have more towns.. i have a lot of new leaf towns already and i love making new towns with new themes.. now i cant even buy a new game to have a new town???
this... this is really really bad for me...

we still don't know all the details! maybe our nook milage could unlock more area for us to decorate or maybe it unlocks a whole new island for us to do? maybe tom nook will judge our town to his satisfaction and if it's good enough, he'll let us unlock another town? there's so much that we don't know yet and i think nintendo realizes that we want multiple towns for themes, etc.

 

[smonikkims]

I didn't even know that other Switch profiles could interact with each other on the same system, but to be fair I haven't played my Switch that much so I don't know if there are already other games that do this. I imagine this was sort of an attempt to include that cross-profile play but at the inadvertent expense of multiple saves. It doesn't seem like a deliberate attempt to stop people having multiple islands, but unfortunately is just the way it ended up working.

 

[KeatAlex]

The big question here is. Will this have a major impact on sales?

I suppose it might, NL sold so much because everyone was buying multiples. Not that it was a HUGE chunk of people but it might be a dent.

Who knows this might drive up switch sales. If they release and exclusive ACNH switch I will pick that up and still keep my current switch.