Did You Know You Can Customise Your Joy-Con's Colours In Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

This is a great little feature.At least there is no problem with joy con drift either

And as a nice touch, you can have the light on with the fish tanks you might have inside your houses

I want the real-life AC joycons, is there any way to import these yet, as far as you all know?

Just got this yesterday, I like the gray more, and hopefully (though doubtfully) they'll add more later

@Friendly There will be I believe, they haven't shipped out yet in Japan I'm pretty sure, but once they do, they'll be easier to get

Mine is White Joy Cons. 😜
Well... Too bad the white color option is unavailable in the game except the dock. 😅

I want my 2 green joycons in my game!

Requires more kits than any other item I've customized so far, and the only other option is gray. As someone whose joycons are non-neon blue and neon yellow, I'm disappointed.

I have the splatoon 2 switch, I’d like to make my in game colors match that. Hopefully in an update later.

And now I'm sad that my gray joycons are busted and I have no money to send them to repair... And even if I had I couldn't ship them now anyway.

Be nice if they added the Lite models to at some point. Nice touches going into the game though.

Other games (well, only Ring Fit Adventure as far as I know) recognize the color of joy-cons you're using so this should become a feature in an upcoming patch. Want me my splatoon colors, despite one of the cons not working properly anymore

Nintendo always thinking about the little things we love.

@Joriss Animal Crossing already recognizes the Joy-con colours; it uses this to recognize if you have the limited AC Joy-cons and awards you the AC Nintendo Switch as shown in the article. I was able to unlock the AC Switch on my original Switch by pairing the AC Joy-con and starting the game.

Obviously they may add the different colours later, but I’d much rather they added some playable games to the Switch, same as in the original Animal Crossing for Gamecube.

@Falien It’s also the case in Pokemon Sword and Shield. The game recognized my custom purple joycons and matched them to my character’s pretend switch in the game. I was hoping that would happen with AC. But not so far, I guess.

Speaking of Joy-con and options -

Are motion controls supported in this game, b/c I can't find a way to get motion to work?

Considering I spend almost all of my time swinging an axe and fishing I don't see why a flick of the wrist wouldn't swing an axe or pull a fish out of the water.

I'm not saying it should be mandatory like Pokémon Let's Go, but surely it should be an option. Flicking down for the net as well. I know motion should work with the Joycon, besides Pokémon I also have Labo.

Also -

Has anybody used amiibo yet? I haven't thought to just try one, I've been waiting for the game to tell me it's OK to use them.

@rjejr
I'm not sure you use amiibo before the game tells you, either on the photo island or wherever you invite animals to the campsite after you built it. I've only unlocked Photopia where you can put them in photo shoots, and scanning an amiibo also adds a poster of the character to your catalog.

@MasterJay

I imported some and they were sent out on Monday. Not supposed to be here until mid April.

@Manah Thanks. That's what I thought but since I was here decided I might as well ask. I set up the 3 houses last night, today is going to be all about building furniture. After those 3 get moved in maybe I'll Google AC amiibo.

Rude. Why don't they have my Neon Orange and Neon Purple Joy-Con Switch?

I hope they add more colours, I have a lot of Switch's in storage waiting to customise 😂

I hope they do the same with people who have the Switch Lite.

I tried this as soon as I got customization yesterday, because those different-colored Joycon bug me. Now it looks like my real Switch, huzzah!

@rjejr : That really sucks if motion controls aren't supported. It's bad enough that the touch screen is barely supported in the game (and even on the rare occasion that it is supported, you often STILL need to press A as the on-screen button is untappable).

It may seem inconsequential to most, but motion controls for catching bugs/fish, watering plants, shaking trees, and using the axe/shovel would go a long way in making the experience more immersive for those playing in docked/tabletop modes while making it especially more fun for kids. These kinds of oversights reinforce my opinion that the game was rushed, delay or no delay. I'm loving the game so far, but it can certainly benefit from further refinement. It's just a pity that expected features weren't included in the base build of the game (and sadly, there's no guarantee that it will be added in later).

In terms of amiibo support, the only thing I have experienced so far is the photo island that allows you to tap amiibo in order to spawn certain characters. I have only tried the figurines (none of the cards) and only about half of them are supported. Resetti, Cyrus, Reece, Rover, Kapp'n, Lottie, and Digby were not supported. I've just realised that I haven't tried the Villager amiibo either, but I imagine that it won't do anything. You can also purchase posters of any of these characters from Nook's tent (including the characters that won't spawn on the photo island). I assume that most of the cards will also spawn their respective characters as most previous islanders have returned. I'll try a few when I get home tonight (and see whether posters of them can be purchased as well).

I've read that the campsite may also allow for characters to be spawned via amiibo, but I haven't unlocked/tested/witnessed this myself yet.

I did know and I was very disappointed that there were only two options, neon red and blue and grey.

:/

@WesEds Sadly they don't, I got a yellow Switch Lite that I am primarily playing this on and I only got the default launch Switch with the red and blue joycons.

@JayJ ah that sucks. I have the grey one so I guess I could just change it to the grey joy cons and pretend

@Manah "to the campsite after you built it"

Thanks. I just got the campsite put down today, built over night, and I made it to Photopia a few days ago. Of my 9 amiibo scanned 4 came into the game and all 3 of my AC cards that came w/ AC:aF. Here are some photos.

Mr. Rosetti - not in the game but on the wall.

Snack time brownies on Harvey's island.

@rjejr
Nice
Btw, after your first camper moves in, talking to Tom Nook unlocks the amiibo invite function for the campsite.

@Manah Tom Nook better be charging 10,000 bells per night for that campsite if those campers ever expect to see the other side of the rivers or the top of those hills b/c I'm never spending money on bridges or stairs otherwise. Maybe I'll hermit out and move my house up there.

Here's today's best photo - caught a football fish, sturgeon on an island and an oarfish a few minutes after getting back. So all 3 in about 30 minutes.