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

[AccfSally]

Wow....that's really disappointing....like really.

 

[minimoon]

I don't know if anyone will agree with me, but I think it would be great if they were releasing two versions of the game, like the Pok?mon games.

People could buy both if they wanted two Islands, and they could have little differences (like some of the new animals only appear in each one, or unique items) but you could still get everything by trading or visiting a town where that animal lives and inviting them.

There could even be two themes, e.g tropical paradise/wilderness camp, with unique sets of furniture, clothes etc.

 

[mayorapple]

Last I checked, tampering with your switch at all resulted in not being able to use online at all. That's a really big trade off and not worth having multiple islands...

 

[mimituesday]

this doesn't make any sense. that's not how switch saves work

 

[Amilee]

this doesn't make any sense. that's not how switch saves work

for literally all other games yea, but they changed it just for animal crossing...

Last I checked, tampering with your switch at all resulted in not being able to use online at all. That's a really big trade off and not worth having multiple islands...

well its still 9months to go maybe there will be a saver way by then

 

[LambdaDelta]

disappointed, but not surprised

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

if anything, it will increase switch sales

 

[kayleee]

Honestly this doesn?t bother me at all because I only had one new leaf town anyway

 

[dizzy bone]

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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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

Oh jeez, that sucks. =_=

 

[OhDeerieMe]

That stinks, with the ability to place furniture outside I was already planning my second island (spooky themed), and thinking what I would do for a third. Ah well, if they ever do a console revision maybe I'll just hang onto my old switch instead of trading it in and make a new town on it. I've never had multiple towns before, and my husband has his own Switch and will be playing, so I'm not absolutely crushed.

 

[Nougat]

We have one Switch but it is my boyfriend's.. I think i will be saving up to get the ACNH Switch bundle, I hope they do one in a nice design. That way I'll get to take my own Switch with me on my train commute as well, and we'll both have our own island. Looks like I have plenty of time to save up now!

 

[Laula]

But how does this work tho? Like if I Play Mario with account 1 and I stop at world 2 for example it normally does not effect my 2nd account. So when I start playing Mario on account 2 I won't start with world 2 but I start from the beginning. Why can't this be the case for AC? I mean I only need 1 Island but it sucks for other Players...

 

[pinkbunny]

Omg that sucks so much! ;__;

 

[Laula]

Oh and also: when they showed the game in the Treehouse section Aya played with the other developer dude (forgot his name). Anyway, when they played together, you could only see 3 tents: those of 2 animals and your own tent So if we play on the same Island - where was his home?

 

[Rymi1]

Oh and also: when they showed the game in the Treehouse section Aya played with the other developer dude (forgot his name). Anyway, when they played together, you could only see 3 tents: those of 2 animals and your own tent So if we play on the same Island - where was his home?

Good point, hmm...idk

 

[visibleghost]

after thinking about this a bit more i still feel disappointed, lol. i have a ton of new leaf towns, i have three cartridges and use homebrew to get several more towns so for me it will be difficult to just have one new horizons town. i guess you can always change the theme of your town or have several themes but i would really like to be able to have more towns. having to buy a new switch to have another town comes with having to buy another online pass if you want to trade items between towns as well, so it gets expensive.

hopefully the island is large so you have a lot of room in your one town. it has to be since you're supposed to fit eight players in it...

 

[lars708]

Yeah this was actually posted in another thread as well. I don't have the desire of having multiple towns as I spent over 3000 hours on my one town in New Leaf without getting bored. However I will buy a new Switch should they release a special Animal Crossing edition.

 

[SnakeEater]

wait, you could just make another account on your switch.

 

[2kimi2furious]

Honestly, this won't be a big deal for me, as my husband and I share our switch, but we both play vastly different games. He uses it for Diablo 3 and I use it for Katamari and Yomawari. I'll also be using this for Animal Crossing and I doubt he'll even be tempted to open that. But it does suck for people with kids or siblings who share an account. I'm just thinking back to when my brother and I tried to share a town on the GC and how we used to fight about it all the time because we both wanted to do our own thing. That's going to suck on the switch. Definitely a ploy to get people to buy multiple ones, for sure.

 

[KeatAlex]

wait, you could just make another account on your switch.

No it was confirmed that making another account would allow you to make a new character but on the same island

 

[AlyssaAC]

I don't mind this. I just wanted one town or island as it's called now. I tried having multiple towns in New Leaf and it burned me out quick, so one island is enough for me. ^.^