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

[Stella-Io]

I heard someone mention swapping SD cards on twitter. Maybe a work around? I kinda doubt it thou, I feel like it has more storage elsewhere.

And about having multiple save files, I've heard the Switch is now much harder to hack, so having stuff like homebrew and powersaves seem more difficult now.

 

[dizzy bone]

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.

Ohh this sounds like a great idea! I think the Nook Mileage thing has a lot of potential... and unlockable areas for rewards sound super appealing.

Anyways, it is a bummer knowing that we won?t be able to have multiple towns and multiple physical cartridges, but I was kinda prepared for something like this to happen. I?m already preparing to open another account to have a secondary splatoon 2 character... I?m guessing towns would work the same way? If they are gonna release an ACNH edition switch, I may even consider getting that ;-;

 

[Liability]

I heard someone mention swapping SD cards on twitter. Maybe a work around? I kinda doubt it thou, I feel like it has more storage elsewhere.

the SD card swap sounds like it could work. however, unless i'm mistaken, game data doesn't get saved on SD cards. only pictures/videos are able to be saved

i heard talk on another thread about cloud save data. maybe the cloud with a Nintendo online membership could allow for multiple saves?

 

[Amilee]

the SD card swap sounds like it could work. however, unless i'm mistaken, game data doesn't get saved on SD cards. only pictures/videos are able to be saved

i heard talk on another thread about cloud save data. maybe the cloud with a Nintendo online membership could allow for multiple saves?

i dont have a sd card in my switch right now but i still have my saves so no it doesnt work like that sadly :/ not sure about the cloud save thing but im sure it would overwrite the old one
the only thing that could maybe work would be to save the saves yourself like you can do on 3ds with homebrew.. but not sure how and if that even works

its also really not a good idea for people who live in the same household and only have one switch. like i wouldnt want to share my island with my sister lol

 

[Pellie]

Watch how there will be die-hard AC fans buying in fact another Switch just to have a second town.

Kinda sucks but who knows how big the world of New Horizons actually is, maybe you will get so much
space that you can create something like a second town.

 

[Soot Sprite]

I don't mind this too much. I would rather invest more time into a main town, and at that point I?ll probably have two switches anyway. My boyfriend and I share one, and I want a special AC themed console if they decide to make one.

 

[Boccages]

If I understand how it works (regarding saving directly on the Switch), could we assume if the game is saved on an SD card that switching the SD card might do the trick ?

I currently have an SD card in my Switch - and I've had one inserted ever since I bought it on March 3rd 2017. The system prioritizes installing games on the SD card although I cannot say if it's storing saves on the system itself or on the SD card.

 

[pocky]

I was planning on buying a second switch* if they came out with an Animal Crossing Limited Edition Switch

 

[Pellie]

Can't you decide if you want to save your game files on a SD card or in the Switch itself?

Also, how will that online cloud backup thing work? Can you use it then for AC or not? Games
like Splatoon 2 as far as I know aren't able to use it.

 

[Amilee]

"On Nintendo Switch, game save data is stored on the console's System Memory. This will not change whether downloadable software or software from a game card is being played. Game save data cannot be saved or copied to a microSD card." https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22289/~/data-management-faq

there goes that idea

 

[oath2order]

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

Honestly, not likely.

 

[Aubrey895]

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.

I was thinking that. There?s little island seen in the distance. Yes that could just be to fill in the space. But there?s an airplane so come on let us go to another island lol. It makes sense with the nook mileage.

 

[will.]

Honestly, not likely.

maybe..? many, many people bought second and third copies just to make new towns and i know a BUNCH of people on these forums have, me included. i think the fact that it's a switch game will improve sales a bunch, but not being able to buy other copies is a negative.

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Ohh this sounds like a great idea! I think the Nook Mileage thing has a lot of potential... and unlockable areas for rewards sound super appealing.

Anyways, it is a bummer knowing that we won?t be able to have multiple towns and multiple physical cartridges, but I was kinda prepared for something like this to happen. I?m already preparing to open another account to have a secondary splatoon 2 character... I?m guessing towns would work the same way? If they are gonna release an ACNH edition switch, I may even consider getting that ;-;

if you're talking about a second account on the switch, unfortunately it won't work that way. when you open a new account as a second profile, the new character will still live in the same town as the first save file, kind of like a new mayor in acnl

 

[Amilee]

I was thinking that. There’s little island seen in the distance. Yes that could just be to fill in the space. But there’s an airplane so come on let us go to another island lol. It makes sense with the nook mileage.

i think the islands in the distance are just the islands of the other people who came to visit you and thats the airplane for too. but who knows. i just dont see us having more than one island

 

[Burumun]

maybe..? many, many people bought second and third copies just to make new towns and i know a BUNCH of people on these forums have, me included. i think the fact that it's a switch game will improve sales a bunch, but not being able to buy other copies is a negative.

There are lots of casual AC fans, not just the people you see on the forums. It's one of those games where you'll talk to people who you didn't even know play video games, and they'll say they have it. I assume most people belong to that group, so the bulk of purchases is by people who barely even play the game, and not the people buying multiple copies to have multiple towns. Plus, out of the people who have multiple towns, not all of them are people who actually bought multiple copies of the game - I'm pretty sure you can use hacking to have multiple towns.

 

[will.]

i think the islands in the distance are just the islands of the other people who came to visit you and thats the airplane for too. but who knows. i just dont see us having more than one island

true... with how animal crossing has been in the past, they probably want us to focus on having just one island and making it the best it can be, without rushing off to a new island. despite not having multiple themed islands, i think having one island is more relaxing. multiple themes in one island is definitely possible in this large of an island too.

 

[Scrafty]

If it really is true then it's a shame for people who have to share a Switch. Sharing one island won't be the same.

I'm concerned too that they won't allow cloud saves like with Splatoon 2, if they're concerned with people duping. But since it isn't a competitive game, I hope they won't do that. I don't want to lose my town if my Switch breaks.

 

[G0DFlesh_88]

well that sucks. I mean they are charging for online now so why not have this included on the cloud servers?

 

[Amilee]

i just hope we can just save and reload save files with homebrew. i did a quick google search about it and it seems to work for other games so yea. its really bad i have to hack my switch, i never did it on my 3ds but i guess i dont have a choice :/

 

[Pudge]

This news is quite a disappointment. I hate the idea of erasing the first town I'll ever play with so it's a bummer knowing that I'll always be limited to this one and only town that I begin with unless I erase it one day or get another switch...