Animal Crossing: New Horizons is back from the dead with a Switch 2 Edition and Free Content Update

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SAguy said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

This is simultaneously great and terrible news — great because the free expansion adds a lot of content and quality-of-life fixes but terrible because I was secretly hoping for a new Animal Crossing in spring of 2026.

Now, I think spring 2028 is more likely. I truly hope Nintendo doesn’t use New Horizons as the mainline AC for Switch 2. I need a new game in my life, preferably one that leans more toward life simulation and away from designing/decorating.

Sadly I think the designing/decorating is what the market seems to want out of AC. My wife loves to just randomly redecorate lots of houses and scenes in the game. I thi k she has like 2000 hours in the game just from that.

I think you're right. My wife loves the decorating/design piece of the game. I think she spent as much time on Happy Home Paradise as the base game.