Have You Seen The Size Of This Animal Crossing: New Horizons Strategy Guide?

That is bigger than my toefl ibt test guide book

And it'll be obsolete after a few updates

The new testament of the bible is here

Fairly usual in Japan.

Maaan...
It looks like Yellow pages book. 😅

Looks like the DOS 6.2.2 manual.

@ballistic90 My thoughts exactly. There’s something still kind of charming about a physical strategy guide, and I bought the last one Prima made for Smash Ultimate as a collector’s item, but it’s already obsolete. It fascinates me that anybody can still sell these things anymore, given free access to information on the Internet and constant updates rendering them out of date almost immediately.

If it's localised I might think about it

I'm just hoping the English guide from Amazon ships tomorrow.

Seems impractical. I could see people just buying it as a collector's item. And besides, isn't the fun of it discovering these things yourself?

When I seen the side view I instantly thought about the old Argos catalogs here in the UK. Unsure if they make them anymore but they were big meaty books

Wow, and i thought the English-language guide was a hefty piece of work with its 432 pages! O_O

I am still a fan of physical strategy guides, even though a few updates will make the guide behind the times... it's great to have as a fan of the game. I still have mine from the original game, and looking through it is like looking through a yearbook of memories.

It looks good, and the new leaf one was excellent. BUT as others have said, unless it risks spoiling future surprises and updates...it is not much use.
There will be many new characters and events not yet released that the book surely won't cover

I bought the futurepress one... 400 pagies and bigger pages i think (a4 ish) so i think the same information. Feels nice just to browse stuff... but i got it at the same day as the recd update... which felt a bit painful

@HarryHyruleHero I'd have it as the ultimate coffee table book.

Learning Japanese, I can also inform you Japanese text takes less space than English or any other languages written with a latin alphabet, so there is even more to it...

I noticed they basically stopped publishing guide books in America but still publish them in Japan. I guess Japanese gamers still prefer physical guide books over online guide.

What worries me is that it will be out of date as soon as you get your hands on it, assuming Ninty keeps updating with new features. What I really want to see is the furniture sets coming back - part of the collection grind was half the fun!

Japanese guides go hard af. Pretty sure the New Leaf one was around 700 pages.

The last guide I bought was the legend of Zelda collector's chest one which had 6 games in it.

It was badly damaged in the post but the place I bought it from gave me a full refund and let me keep it.

cool but the internet!? ahaha

Absolute unit 0_0

will be outdated fast though ._.

Strategy guides are useless in this day and age of dedicated game wikis and guided walkthrough videos.

Really a strategy guide for a game like this?

I have the English version by Future Press pre-ordered through Amazon, but as others have already mentioned, it'll be missing lots of information the day it ships due to the first update, let alone when more updates and their content arrive down the road. It will certainly be a great reference to have nonetheless, but due to the VAST amount of stuff to collect/make in the game, having those gaping holes (examples: shrubs, holiday activities, the Museum's Art section, Leif, Redd, etc.) right out of the gate is a real shame.

Geeez...just use the internet. lol

@k8sMum I just checked amazon animal crossing guide by future press delayed again until May 8. Ughhhhhh

I had a similar guide for New Leaf. It was useful simply because it essentially had a giant checklist for all the items which really helped with filling the catalog. I never worried about buying duplicate items.

@RupeeClock I have had absolutely zero issues sourcing reliable information about the games I play on the internet. Besides, the information in that Animal Crossing guide became obsolete as soon as Nintendo released the Bunny Day update. That sounds far more unreliable to me.

My 12 year old son and 9 year old daughter have a couple of pokemon startegy guides plus a fee minecraft and terraria books and they love poring over them, learning about the games, planning what they'll do next etc. It's just a different experience to googling something when you're stuck in a game.

Just imagine if that came in english the rush to buy them would stripped the online order site clean.