Nintendo's New Animal Crossing: New Horizons-Themed Switch Lites Are Out Now

I could have sworn they existed already, but they don’t……what is this? Have I been living a lie!?

Is that pink for girls, blue for boys..?

Just create updates instead, reinvigorate the game that way! Surely half of the fanbase and players have moved on now. They need to give us a reason to start again

Just in time for the release of...uhm...well not Animal Crossing, that's for sure. A little strange 😅

Oh! A special edition that actually includes the game?

Can someone go check up on Nintendo? Between this and giving us the option of turning the Flower’s voice off in Mario Wonder, I’m worried for them.

The timing of the MK8 Deluxe bundle makes me wonder if we're actually getting wave 6 in October (earlier than expected). There was a similar situation with the bundle back in March and wave 4's release.

I made my very own Switch Lite TOTK version by adding stickers
I will say the 2 versions from animal crossing are cute tho.

Dang $200 for a Switch and ACNH? Not a bad deal.

Damn, if these had OLED displays I’d actually consider picking one up. Really don’t like the idea of them going back to LCD, or at least basic LCD panels after having my Neo QLED TV and using my brother’s OLED Switch.

Just to give that dead horse another beating: I find it kind of sad that Nintendo knows "Animal crossing" sells, not just copies of the game and DLC, but also in related items like amiibo cards and these Switch models, yet there's nothing new in the series coming (That we know of, anyway.)

@Altaria_97

Same! I will never go back to the old screens! OLED rules, and has improved my gaming this generation and I was reluctant to upgrade but so glad I did.

@antisumo
Yeah I agree. It sold so many copies it's crazy that they are not going to add anything new to it. Mario Kart 8 continues to get new updates. I know they don't want to go the route of charging microtransactions, etc for items, but they could add in a new bug or fish or furniture every so often to keep people playing it. Oh well.

@MysticX
And it’s the easiest series they have for simple seasonal updates yet they just dropped it. All those Mario items they added and they never did it for anything else.

I haven't touched ACNH for about 6 months now. It's been dead since Nintendo chose not to add the 2023 Archway.

@MysticX are we supposed to know of anything knew? I don't think I recall any console having more than one AC flagship before, so the next Crossing will likely be a Gen 10 game.

@msvt OLED is nice for the eyes, but Lite is good for my hands and is my portable system of choice!

looks nice. with the ac photoshoot at nintendo live, new commercials, rumored lego set, and now switch lite editions, i wonder why the sudden resurgence.

it could easily mean nothing, but i can still dream of a welcome amiibo size update like new leaf got. id be more than happy with a deluxe style rerelease, NH does a lot of things right but can still do more

@flojomojo

I love the way the Lite feels too. Near perfect D-pad!

It prints money!

A year and half after they stopped supporting the game... Nintendo gonna Nintendo

@Grumblevolcano “MK8 Deluxe bundle”

I read your comment as a game bundle and actually considered buying MK8 for the holiday. Guess we’ll just have to wait a few more years for MK8D Complete on Super Switch.

Nintendo celebrating month 36 of the year 2020, living that AC:NH Covid life.🤷🏻‍♂️

@Rambler Technically that’s “teal” or “turquoise”. It isn’t a “boy’s” color as much as a “girl’s” color. It is what Tiffany, a jewelry store uses for all their boxes….so tell me if that is a girl or boy thing then 😉. And that color has been rather popular amongst “comfy” home decor for the past decade.

As for the “pink”, it’s more salmon or peachy. Not your traditional Barbie pink. 😅

Why are we getting bundles now? There have been a lot of odd Nintendo promotions, general news and tips for ACNH lately. From show booths to news channel updates, is this a precursor to a new DLC pack like Mario Kart?

Why? Because...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW0IR3q0EvE

That's...nice...I guess...???

Clearing stock 101

The b@st@rds. They really know how to twist my nipples and get me buying more Switches, don't they.

Shooting for that sales record

I wish they made a bunch of different special edition Switch Lite systems. I love that little handheld as it feels a lot better in handheld mode than the regular Switch with joy-cons.

A Metroid theme one would especially be nice. Maybe for Prime 4?

@gcunit It has a custom design. How is this clearing stock?

@nhSnork I wouldn't say we're "Supposed to know" about the next one, and that by now it will be for [whatever comes after the Switch] is a shoo-in. (Fingers crossed they'll have it as an early console-shifting game)

But it's still a shame they dropped support for ACNH, especially since it's a relatively easy game to update, add some furniture, update a holiday event or two, repeat every now and again, and it will keep going...

@graviton that particular shade of pink is also a rather popular color for men’s shirts too

I welcome the endless release of themed Switch consoles and joy cons, give us more!

@BTB20 The colors of the console already exist, so all they would have to do is take their existing stock and add graphics.

Pretty late to the game lol 😂

@Rambler historically it was the other way round circa 150 years ago, blue for girls, pink for boys.

random but ok, digging the leaf patterns

So if I decide to get a Lite, can I have save data from the same game downloaded on both a Kite and my original?

@HenryKibble depends on the game, for most games yes. For games like Pokemon and (ironically) Animal Crossing, no.

You can manually transfer save data between consoles, or use the switch online subscription to get automatic online backups that can be quickly downloaded to your consoles.

@Eel Ya, definitely. Neither pink or teal are more one gender or another. 😂

@Duncanballs Yes, exactly. Pink was for boys and blue was for girls.

It wasn’t until 1953 (in the US at least) when President Eisenhower’s wife Mamie wore a pink dress to the inaugural ball that ushered in pink as a color choice for women. 🧐

So technically, we have had only 70 years of pink as a color for women. 😱

@Rambler I think it’s Coral Pink for the Isabelle, as that’s the colour of her outfit in this game, and turquoise for Timmy and Tommy as they wear turquoise-y blue/green outfits

@VancouverVelocityFan
Ah, so the colour dichotomy is built into the game, cheers

@TheMegaMarshtomp When they decided not to have a second year anniversary cake I thought it was a little lazy. When they didn't include a new year's arch I stopped playing.

Ah so they put decals on their existing stock to move it before the next switch

@Rambler Yes.

Maybe this is a lead-in to the release of DLC, or a switch remake of new leaf or something.

Selling unsold stock 101: remove the back of your console, stick on one with a basic pattern, print a box and sell it as a special edition.

Am I hallucinating, or did Switch Lites already come in those colours? I'm glad that it comes with a game though.

@Snatcher they did! but they weren't lite they were the normal version

There is an Animal Crossing emblem on the front bottom right that makes it a little more unique.

@SykoMuffin yes, they already came in colors that complimented New Horizons (turquoise and yellow), because the Lite released during the pre-release hype for the game, and the Pink one came out alongside the game itself.

So you could say these colors were already kind of Animal Crossing-adjacent, this just solidifies it further.

@Arykthan Your right! That must be what I was getting it mixed up with, then there’s also that case that has the same exact shapes lmao.

@graviton my date range was out. I take great delight in sharing this fact when I hear males saying they won't touch pink because it is a girl's colour.

I remember being in a queue at a shop once and a man was returning an aerobee for his 5 year old son. Nothing wrong with it. He just didn't want his son to have a pink frisbee!

I'm male and a colour is a colour. My son likes pink and that's totally fine by me.

Lazy releases by Nintendo.

@Rambler what’s your issue here?

With all these Switch bundles coming out, I guess we're farther off for official news for a Nintendo Switch successor than we thought.

@Snatcher I think something was with this colour, maybe case and pink one could be also but witthout ac logo etc. There's something to it

@Duncanballs Actually, I think your date range was right. Pink was the boy’s color around 1800. I was just pointing out it wasn’t till 1950’s pink became a girl’s color in the States…and soon took it over from boys.

I share you sentiments well. It amuses me when men and women insists women are the ones to dress “pretty” only and men did not care about appearances or less of it. Or that women are the only one who can wear bolder colors. If this was Elizabethan England, men would have been expected to and would be better and more colorfully dressed than women and no one would bat an eye or care about it.

And for those who says it’s not “natural” for men to dress pretty or in bold colors, just look at the animal kingdom. Male peacocks are the best example. They are the one with the stunning tail feathers. Female peacocks pale in comparison, all various shades of neutral tones. And this list of animals go on and on. I don’t see anything more natural than that. 😂

I know I'm I'm the minority, but I love the Switch Lite. While the Switch is my favourite game library and favourite system for playing indies on, I'm really not that fond of the look or feel of playing the "real" Switch handheld. It's so obviously just a basic tablet with the joycons unconvincingly attached, and I don't find them comfortable to play with.

On the other hand, the Switch Lite is the nicest handheld I've ever owned... and I think I've owned almost all of them (yes including whatever obscure 90s import or budget system just popped into your head! 😉 ). My "real" Switch is permanently docked and I use the Pro Controller exclusively. If the Lite had a TV out, it would be the best system evarrr but it's still the best handheld imo, so that's more than good enough for me to give a hearty recommendation.

That said, it's very common to find a mint Aqua or Coral Switch Lite for £100, so that leaf pattern and ACNH are doing some heavy lifting here.

@Snatcher In addition to your other replies, these two exact color Switch Lites already existed, and these are clearly just unsold stock of those, but with the leaf print screenprinted on the back. Those Switch lites were often bundled with an official case with the leaf print, and a copy of ACNH. So, that might be what you were remembering.

Cute! If I was looking to buy a Switch Lite I'd probably go for one of those.

@graviton @Duncanballs Love reading this conversation. Just to add, for reference, I'm a cis-het male, usually framed by others as traditionally masculine looking, (currently in training to star in a superhero movie, for example. Have also previously often played gangster, football hooligan, etc).

My favourite colour is pink. Always has been, but I was embarrassed or frightened to admit it as a kid. Took me until I was in my mid 30s to feel OK with wearing a pink t-shirt or sweatshirt, or taking my pink Switch / PSP etc outside. Nowadays I don't care what people think and just buy what i like, but for years those semi sexist or even homophobic public sentiments were deeply ingrained in my psyche.

Similarly, I love cute things like cartoons, videogames and toys, including sometimes what would be considered feminine or girlish properties. Again, I was always drawn to them as a kid, they just looked really fun, cool, colourful and creative to me.

As a young boy I absolutely loved Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, Transformers and HeMan... but I also secretly thought My Little Pony, Barbie and Carebears were cool, but understood that it was for some reason taboo so I should suppress that. I once sneakily bought a my little pony at a yard sale but then made her armour from cardboard and tinfoil and put He-Man riding on her into battle to make it "ok" in my head. I still hid her if friends came over though, for fear of being bullied. Again, it annoys me that it took until I was in my 30s to realise just how ridiculous the notion of a gendered toy or tv show is.

Anyway, tldr. My coral pink Switch Lite is freakin awesome. The beautiful colour makes me happy every time I play it. I also unapologetically love Animal Crossing. My favourite videogame character ever is Amy from Sonic. I am no longer ashamed or conflicted about any of this! 😂 People should just live their lives and let other do the same. Like what you like. Assigning preference in art or style to gender makes as much sense to me as doing it with your taste in food or music.

@BTB20 These exact colours already existed, these look like old stock being cleared by screenprinting the leaves onto them and calling it a new product. And it will work, there are plenty of collectors who buy every variant, even the easy/lazy ones.

@Snatcher I thought so, too. Turns out there was a bundle with the coral and Animal Crossing in the past, but no special design.

I feel like this should have came out years ago.

Why are these AGES better than the Mario OLED?

I got both! So cute!

@samuelvictor you’re my hero 🤩 I wish everyone was as bold as you to be true to themselves and be unapologetically happy with it! Love that!

@Kiyata Oh, what a lovely kind message. Thank you! 🥰

As I said, I'm somewhat ashamed or annoyed that my internalised feeling of societal pressure took me til I was so old before I realised how silly it all was to waste your life worrying about what other people think, or pretending to be something you're not.

And I'm an actor. Pretending to be something I'm not is part of my job... the public may like "me", but they dont know me. They know the media's portrayal of me, or the characters I play. I used to feel a pressure to look and act in ways that would make my fanbase think I was cool. The older I've gotten I look back at myself in my teens and 20s acting like I'm the coolest guy in the room and all I can think is how that's not even remotely me on screen, just a mask that I made to hide the real me that I thought people wouldnt accept. I'm sure many people do the same in their every day lives, and that makes me sad for them. Life is short and precious and you should live it to the fullest in the exact way that you would want to.

Typing stuff like that feels silly. It shouldn't be that controversial for a cis-het man to wear a pink sweatshirt or have a pink Switch. When you step back and think about it, its ridiculous and makes no sense to be upset about that, or even find it unusual. I have friends and relatives from all over the gender and sexuality spectrum, not to mention racial minorities, immigrants, differently abled people, and society is much rougher on all of them for their percieved differences. In truth, I've never understood why any of that is anyone else's business, or why it would be a way to pre-judge their character.

But even more so, the idea of something as benign as a colour or tv show or toy being only for a specific, rigid gender is litwrally nonsensical. And as the other guys pointed out, these standards change throughout history as fashions change anyway. Pink used to be a man's colour. Make up and wigs were a status symbol for men. None of it needs to be taken seriously, just have fun and do what makes you happy, and leave others alone to do the same 😀

@Snatcher
I think they are the same Turquoise and Coral colours used on the Nintendo Switch Lite, but with Animal Crossing leaves added on the back.

@samuelvictor so very well said! Yes! I agree with all of that! And it took me until I was well into my 40s to feel that way myself, of course as a woman, defying what society finds as acceptable for conduct or interests for someone my age or gender. I feel very much at peace, finally, just being who I am, and not feeling like I have to hide what I love most. Oh how I wish we’d found this wisdom decades ago! 😀

@Kiyata Thank you again! I'm really happy that you are now happy and comfortable with who you are. I'm sorry it took so long for you, as with me, but better late than never, and to be fair to us both, these things were not really talked about, and gender roles were far more rigid and societally enforced when we were of impressionable age.

I have kids that are now adults, and also many friends and colleagues who are Gen Z and young millenials, and while life is of course still hard at that age, and things like social media add all linds of pressures and stresses that we didnt have, they are so much better informed and equipt to deal with this stuff and feel more comfortable being themselves than we were encouraged to. I learn SO much from the younger generations and unlike.many my age I'm very admiring of them and feel positive that the future is secure in their hands once they are the ones steering the ship.

I don't know if you know the Star Wars film, Rogue One? I actually have a small role in that movie, where my character shouts "Just Let the Girl Speak!". In fact, not only do I say it, it's a line I wrote myself! If you know the events of Episodes 1-9, it's a pretty darn important line because if they didn't listen to the "girl", then everyone and everything in Ep.4-9 wouldn't even exist as they'd have been wiped out! Therefore, accidentally, I saved the galaxy, by giving a young woman a voice. Or, she saved the galaxy... i just ensured people gave her the chance to! 😅

Coincidentalky, the film came out during the start of the MeToo era, and to my infinite surprise my line became a viral trending hashtag, tshirt, placards at womens rights protests... to this day I regularly attend official Star Wars events around the world simply because it meant so much to people, and I always donate all money from anything Star Wars related to giving women and other underrepresented groups a voice in film, by helping them get into writing, producing and directing to try and make the movie business a safer and more equal and representative place for all.

I recently did an AMA on the official Star Wars Reddit and it went crazy viral getting 3.2 million views in 2 days. This lead to me being asked to write a book, which is called "Just Let the Girl Speak" - an enormous part of that book explores exactly what you are describing as to gender roles and societal expectations and pressures for women, and the media's role and responsibilities in this. Of course, being a man, I needed to speak to as many of my female colleagues both infront and behind the camera as possible in order to get them to be a part of it and guide everything in a true and representative direction. Naturally we also cover the same issues as they affect men, all colours of the LGBTQTI+ rainbow, people from different racial and social backgrounds, neurodiversities, its basically about helping people find their voice and ways to allow them to express themselves and be seen.

It's been delayed because of the writers strike and ongoing SAG AFTRA strike, but it should be out soon. You may find it interesting... and of course, all money goes to the good causes, not to me 😀

@samuelvictor I am SO glad you saved the Galaxy! 😀 actually I am not familiar with much of the Star Wars stuff despite my husband being a huge fan of all of that! I did enjoy watching the mandalorian with him though. And the Princess Leia show they had on Disney recently. It’s so awesome you’re working on meaningful projects to help encourage others. I love that! I truly admire you and all you stand for!

@samuelvictor I go on a simple principle of that no one is better at being you, than you are and who you are is unique and you.

@Kiyata Thanks so much! 😀 I'm far from perfect and wasn't saying it for praise, just to demonstrate how important it is for me to help other people navigate this stuff and try to use what little power/influence I have to bring about positive changes. I'm not really comfortable being a role model as pedestals are very easy to fall off from and I actually get very anxious being centre of attention (perhaps I'm in the wrong job! 😅) I'm just a creative person and like feeling part of a group, so big projects like films with hundreds of people working towards a goal appeal to me... but I hate the hierarchys and abuses of power and bullying that can come with them, so I naturally have gravitated to trying to help people into the industry and making it a welcoming, safe and equal environment 😊 But its also very important that the media we put out into the world sets a good example and has a good message - of course whilst also being entertaining and not just preachy / fake "corporate woke" for ESG points.

@Duncanballs That's a perfect way to put it, thank you! 😀

@Snatcher

No that’s just the case 🤣, they have been that lazy with these that they just thought “let’s just copy the case”

Joking aside It’s a shame really because the switch Lite is great, just wish they did a Zelda one. The best one is the all black Pokémon one which I had and sold, no regret! Just bought the Zelda OLED to replace my V1.

That $0.99 discount is wild though

Honestly the full game download of new horizons makes me consider it. It would be cool to go back and start a new island.

I refuse to delete my pandemic island though. I deleted my 3ds one because I didn’t think I would care, and I regret it a lot!