Nintendo's official Animal Crossing Twitter account recently sent out a tweet about the next in-game event for New Horizons.
While the majority of responses were about Shamrock Day, a number of followers have noticed the screenshot attached to this tweet is a much higher resolution than the other ones posted by the same account.
According to a post over on Reddit, the screenshots on this social account are normally 1080p and this particular one was a "ridiculously" high resolution. Many users on Twitter are asking why the image is in "4K", but as noted by one individual in the same thread, the "real" image is actually 5760x3240:
"That's not even a direct link. Here is the real direct image link. 5760x3240"
Software developer and gaming enthusiast LuigiBlood further notes how the image is "bigger than 4K" and is "probably" just an "internal version of the game" running on PC or something...
Many followers of Isabelle's account have also been looking at older Nintendo screenshots and yeah, it seems this isn't the first time the company has released a higher-resolution image (as you can see above). It did the same thing for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild a number of years ago, as well as previous Zelda titles.
Of course, all this speculation has been driven by rumours of a new Nintendo Switch over the past week featuring 4K support. So, what do you make of this higher res Animal Crossing photo? Leave your thoughts down below.
[source twitter.com, via reddit.com]
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4k What? I read it and totally confused here...
@SwitchForce Just more hopeful rumors.
Can’t wait for ‘Shamrock Day’ this year. I’ll get the Rebel songs blaring as revenge for the boy who ran down my street waving a massive Rangers flag.
This has nothing to do with it It just higher rez screenshots.
But I need my 4k ACNH in HDR. Where's the HDR?!?!? /s
SIGNS ARE EVERYWHERE!
Can you limit pro-begging articles to no more than one every two weeks or something? Surely there has to be some level of editorial standards.
And I suppose the footage of Monster Hunter Stories 2 is switch pro gameplay right? And not just PC gameplay that was used to better market the game itself? Same with Monster Hunter Rise and it's trailers?
Seriously.. I highly doubt we're getting a switch pro, and yet so many people are already acting like it's confirmed to happen. I'm not holding my breath at all, and if it happens then it happens. I guess that people are at least bound to get it right eventually after guessing year after year though.
do people want a pro so much that this is what qualifies as proof
I still find it strange that they show screenshots that are higher fidelity than what consumer hardware can produce.
But it's nice to see a 4K+ rendition of ACNH.
Like, sometimes I have to wonder if they do small innocuous gestures like this to fuel the rumour mill.
@RupeeClock I mean, that's how things work in the games industry. They show screenshots that aren't fully representative of the actual game itself.
Switch Pro "hints" are starting to look a lot like Half Life 3 "hints".
I can't blame Nintendo for upping the res, who really wants to look at a 720p screenshot in 2021 anyways?
The prophecy is true...
@DAHstroy In JPEG format too no less.
@RupeeClock
i can not tell the difference between the screenshot and what ac looks like
@RupeeClock
kinda like how in advertisements a mcdonald s burger looks way different than in real life. not a perfect analogy but you get what i am saying
It's not 1920x1080*3, it's 1920x1080*9! 3 times each direction
I don't need 4K.
I only need playable games.
If it’s not 8k/120fps, I won’t play. I need perfection when I see that C+ Bass joke.
Um... hello? Nobody is talking about Animal Crossing confirmed for PC? Hew, hew, hew. 🤓
This is like a rumor of a rumor. rumorlife at it again.
O yes, we almost didn't have a Switch Pro rumor this week...
4k is of no interest to me, as I can barely tell the difference between 720p and 1080. I don't have a 4k tv. I would like Games to run at a minimum of 30fps, if not 60. I can see the difference between 30fps and some of the games on switch that run at 7fps.
Honestly I have no issues with the picture quality of the Switch. I want more storage(or a second SD card slot!), better battery(at least 5 hours, even for demanding games), and a better screen. I don't mean higher res, just brighter and bigger, ditch the wasted space.
That and native, built in support for standard Bluetooth headphones. Let me just straight up sync any standard pair of headphones to the system and have them work as well as they would for a phone or tablet. I know some audiophiles and hardcore gamers would point out those few milliseconds of latency for the audio, but for those people I say you can use a cable just fine. I just want to be able to easily switch the same headphones between my phone and Switch without having to deal with dongles or cables.
I haven't seen the low FPS issues some people talk about on Switch, I don't know which games those are. But it would be nice if they buffed it enough that all games could run, reliably, at no less than 30FPS.
@Moistnado It'd be cool if a Switch Pro would have a "resolution" foucs (DLSS 4K with fps around 30) and a "speed" focus (1080p with a solid 30/60fps) like you see on the XBOX Series X, ONE X, PS4 Pro and PS5.
And it'd be even better if it had a native 1440p option.
@sanderev options are good. I don't see the point in a crispy 4k image chugging along at less than a "targeted" 30fps though.
Publishers using high res bullshots from dev consoles goes back decades.
Can't wait for the 39 minute YouTube video from various people discussing this today.
It would be really funny if that was how it leaked though.
Well, since the whole premise of this buzz is that the official screenshots can only originate from the console itself... Switch Pro with 5760x3240 confirmed.😎 And I bet that's just handheld!🙀
@nessisonett 🤣🤣
this is one of the worst articles this site has ever made lmao
I’d just like more reviews instead of these time wasting articles
When people say a switch+ will be 4k ready they don't SERIOUSLY think it will play games at 4K right?
At best you'll be able to stream YouTube/Netflix/Hulu etc 4K video. That's it.
PC port of Animal Crossing confirmed.
@nessisonett Brilliant 😁
@pepepopo the rumours are that a near future revision of the switch will run a form of DLSS that will support upscaling to 4K TVs. So yeah, the games will still run at 1080p (or less), but Nvidia's funky AI will help them look half way decent on a giant screen.
I haven't heard any rumours yet about the Switch becoming a media streaming box tho'?
@Trajan Amazon France did reveal Days Gone for PC before Sony did and that batch of listings for games coming to PC did include games like BotW and Mario Odyssey.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/04/sony_confirms_days_gone_the_last_of_us_2_gran_turismo_sport_pc_listings_are_fake
@Grumblevolcano I think we're 10 years out at least from Nintendo releasing games on PC.
Still would be awesome. Haven't heard that rumor.
Am I the only one not giving an absolute $#17 about 4K resolution here? I thought HD was already enough. Maybe it's just me though, me and most likely the fact a 4K TV would require a second mortgage or something.
@AlexSora89 you have been able to get a 55" 4k tv for $300 for a few years now.
8k sets are expensive currently.
@nessisonett Yeah you should have seen it in Glasgow at the weekend there; so many knuckles getting dragged...
Two things I never understand:
1) People saying they don't have a 4K tv yet. They're quite cheap these days.
2) People saying they can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p and between 1080p and 4K. If you look at a good PS4 Pro game like Horizon Dawn it's impossible not to see how much better it looks than a 1080p game.
3) Turns out there are threee things I don't understand! When people say the Switch games look rubbish on their 4K tv. Mine look great! I don't know if my tv is already doing some kind of upscaling but usually the graphics are crisp and detailed. When they are not it's down to the game itself, i.e. AC has parts that look great and parts that look more jaggedy/blurry. But that's because they were lazy in the programming.
I really don't give a monkey's uncle about 4K or a Switch Pro.
If I want to see "higher resolution", I just look out the window. ^_^
We got a name brand 4K tv for about £250. So that’s not too bad. Can I tell the difference between 1080p and 4K? No.
Good Grief, people really are desperate and clutching aren't they? Can we not just wait and see what happens ... if we get something more powerful & shiny then brilliant, but honestly, I have loved my Switch since that midnight launch and I will continue to do so regardless of what Nintendo decides to do.
So glad I don’t have a tv.
Also half life 3 confirmed. I wanna share in the tin foil too!
My eyes have got so bad over the years that this means nothing to me. Just like to switch pro stories they must be getting old!!
@Rika_Yoshitake Switch Pro is QAnon for people that can’t wait to tell you rhat ACTUALLY in Japan SMB2 was called Doki Doki Panic and what we know as “Lost Levels” yadda yadda
I'm more annoyed that we had nothing for St David's day, yet the paddy's get a full f*****g event!!!!
Where is the love for us Taff's? Surely Muffy could have at least put on a suspender suit for us
The "gameplay" footage portion of the Splatoon 3 video was also showing higher quality shadows than what the Switch hardware can provide.
@pepepopo It won't be 4K, it will be DLSS 4K, meaning 1080p or 1440p upscaled to 4K. (with nvidia's clever AI upscaling)
4K is not happening on the Switch, it would require 4K assets (textures, video's) as well and the game wouldn't fit on the Switch game cards.
@RupeeClock "I still find it strange that they show screenshots that are higher fidelity than what consumer hardware can produce."
Who do you mean with "they"?
Reminder: https://youtu.be/sX4HTUuCy3k?t=32
Everyone(TM) is doing that. Just go to youtube and lookup "e3 vs retail".
Tbh I'd be most hyped for a switch pro if only because it could probably run AC with less dips and pop in. Some islands you visit, where there a lot of items really suffer from this.
Not sure if it’s my broken eyes or the device I’m using to view the article/screen shot, but I literally don’t see any difference in quality
@TSR3 doesn't DLSS requires games to literally have their assets uploaded to a super computer?
You have to make your game work with DLSS not every game supports it automatically.
@pepepopo Yes, that was true for DLSS 1.0. With DLSS 2.0 Nvidia provides driver updates, but doesn’t need supercomputers to be trained for each game
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