Fully upgrading your home in Animal Crossing: New Horizons costs a lot of Bells, with that pesky Tom Nook draining your resources left, right and centre, but have you ever wondered how much your island getaway might cost in real life?
Strangely enough, online comparison service Money has been calculating exactly that, analysing a number of properties from games, films and TV shows to see how they'd fit alongside real-life houses.
Its report says, "The value of each fictional property was calculated individually based on canon information from the game, television show or film using location data and bedroom count and collated with real-life comparisons of average property prices in a corresponding area or a conversion from fictional to real currency."
So, on to the data. Apparently, a fully-upgraded Animal Crossing home is likely to cost around £359,339 (or around $470,172 in the US), and if you were to take out a 25-year mortgage with a 10% deposit, you'd be paying £1,533.63 a month.
Money even went to the trouble of creating this listing for the property, as if it were being put on the market.
The nearby amenities do sound pretty sweet, though.
The New Horizons home isn't the most expensive on the market, either. According to the same report, Bowser's Castle is estimated to cost around £4.39 million while Tomb Raider's Croft Manor was valued at a whopping £31.36 million. Your player character's house in Pokémon Sword and Shield would be around £343,914.
We wouldn't take these figures too seriously, of course, but it's nice to know how well off we all are in the video game world. If only we could afford these houses in real life, eh?
[source money.co.uk]
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This is pretty interesting, actually! Especially as even a fully upgraded house in Animal Crossing doesn't have much space... scatter a few turnips around and you're done!
I paid off All house upgrades by selling tons of Non native fruits. 😉
And with a lot of Time Travel too. 😅
Btw, All mortgage cost on ACNH = 5,746,000 Bells
From article it was around £360,000 / $470,000
So 1 Bell on ACNH = £ 0.06 / $ 0.08
So.. Tom Nook is actually cheap.
Gotta factor in location. On a quaint little island with its own airport and museum? 1+ million.
Also every house would be bought up as investment properties and used as air bnbs.
Multiply that by about 3 and you would get the price it costs over here in Guernsey.
I live in South East London I would bite your hand off for that sort of price.
So the only chance young people have of buying their own home is in Animal Crossing. Got it.
Bowsers castle sounds like a bargain
Until the dlc where we get another increase, then we're looking at more quid than that!
Don't tell that dirty raccoon.
So about 90 thousand apples.
$2k a month rent for a one bedroom in NYC isn't unheard-of. Just sayin'
And all you need to do to pay that off is to go fishing and resell turnips.
@MrGawain i live in switzerland and thats a steal lol
I love the Marketing Speil. Shame they don't provide the Dream Code for us to view the property...
So.... is the house located in rural Wisconsin or in the East Hamptons? That kind of matters.
Two bed, 1 bath, kitchen, living room, dining room on nearly an acre.
$43,900.oo
I'll take my real life house over the AC:NH house any day!
Try buying a home in the San Francisco Bay Area. lol
Welcome to Capitalism
my ACNH fully upgraded house would cost $633,874 Australian, the Croft manor would cost $55,304,151.84 Australian, and Bowser's Castle $7,743,103.95 Australian. The interest rate would be through the roof as of today's standards
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