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My 35-year old body is ready. I haven't been this giddy about a game in years. Animal Crossing just has such strong happy memories for me.

@Razer @Rpg-lover Animal Crossing is to Sims as Pilot Wings is to Flight Simulator.

Comparing the two experiences is unfair and not the least bit accurate, as their experiences are entirely different. In fact, the comparison doesn't hold up at all.

The latter is arguably more fun and, in the case of Animal Crossing, more relaxing. You don't have the annoying "real-life" physical mechanics that boggle down the Sims games. More zen, I suppose, is the best way to describe it. More fun things to do. More customization on your town (let's not mention the terrible Sims Free-Play game here).

If you experience it for yourself, you'll discover quickly that it's nothing like the Sims and just how far off the comparison is.

Case in point, I personally hate the Sims games but I absolutely love Animal Crossing.

Being able to customize the landscape? Take my money now.

Already paying for a yearly family subscription. Besides, if I went digital and only had a copy for myself that my wife couldn't play on her Switch, she'd kill me. No choice but to get the physical version this time.

Besides, buying Animal Crossing just to get a 7-day free trial of NSO? That's like buying a hamburger and getting a free pickle to put on it. Inevitably, you're left wanting more pickles, but having to pay extra.

@Manah If you read between the lines, this is exactly what it sounds like. Not once does Nintendo say "Nintendo Switch Online members can only have save data recovered one time period."

They are very SPECIFIC:
"Nintendo Switch Online members can only have save data recovered one time due to the loss or damage of system."

That means you should be able to transfer files just fine with the purchase of a new system.

People are getting up in arms over nothing as usual.

EDIT: LOL I just now saw this article after I posted this: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/02/animal_crossing_new_horizons_will_support_save_file_transfers_later_this_year

The grave is my life beyond work and Animal Crossing post March 20th.

I'm suffering from a case of NDDS (Nintendo Direct Deprivation Syndrome).

Actually, I'm really interested in additional information about Animal Crossing so I wouldn't mind an AC-specific Direct in all honesty.

Seems strange that they wouldn't want to announce their strategy for the first half of the year though, especially with PS5 and Xbox Series X on the horizon.

That red background. Every time I see it, it makes me scream internally, "NINTENDO DIRECT?! YES!"

Inevitably I am left disappointed, crying inside, and hugging my knees while rocking back and forth, wishing the dry spell was nothing but a bad dream.

@Tyranexx Mine do, mostly because I'm one of those people that gets his kicks from people going "WTF?? Is this a glitch??"

@BrintaPap Though I agree with your comment, and I hate to be THAT guy, but the extreme pain is just too unbearable for my little mind to take.

Our*

...That's better. I'll see myself out...

@Tyranexx Exactly. I've left a few random weird things in my Android apps that are hidden but can be viewed by someone with too much time on their hands. It's actually kind of fun.

The fact that the Nintendo Switch Lite is vastly outselling the PS4 while the original Switch is vastly outselling the Lite is very interesting.

@AlexOlney brilliant.

Remake Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time in this style. Just saying.

@SpaceboyScreams I'm right there with you.

I want. I want. I really want.

As a Nintendo investor, this is why I don't pay attention to the Financial Times. They're so off the mark in many industries its not even funny. I'm quite surprised they're still taken seriously at this point.

MarketWatch, Barron, or The Street are far more reliable sources IMO

@OorWullie Pink Gold Peach is my wife's favorite. She's actually about the same stats wise as Metal Mario, who's my favorite.

As a lifelong #StarTrek fan, I must say this...

If the games are anything like the dumpster fire that is Star Trek Discovery, no thanks.

@Desrever Exactly

I honestly used the app quite a bit before the Splatfests ended. Now I don't even have it installed. It's like Nintendo only half supports it. I'd use it more if it had more features. Maybe when Animal Crossing launches...

@Trajan it wouldn't be able to run the game? You're serious?

There's literally nothing stopping Activision from getting this game to run on the Switch besides their own lack of trying. Time and time again we've seen so called armchair experts like yourself say "this game won't run on Switch" or "that game won't run on Switch". And they've been proven wrong time and time again.

There's an article on this very site about this: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/soapbox_call_of_duty_can_work_on_switch_activision_just_needs_to_pull_the_trigger

The problem is that Activision is lazy. They don't want to try because why would they? Look at this list. They don't need to because people are buying this game on other platforms. If people stopped buying the game we might actually see that changed.

I hate Call of Duty but it would be nice to have it on Switch for the people who do like it. Activision just needs to stop "pulling an EA" with regard to the COD series on Switch.

@Zeldafan79 I remember those days. My cousin and I went to see Robocop 3. My aunt paid for it, and didn't even watch it herself. We went to the theater by ourselves and had a blast.

Of course we knew how to differentiate between "fiction" and "reality" back then.

I don't know about everyone else here, but I miss the Nintendo E3 press conferences of old. I loved hearing the reactions of the audience in attendance. It was a big part of the fun.

The glitches were there, yes, but I can remember actually feeling more excited about upcoming games and systems due to the audience reactions.

For example, there's no way The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess reveal would have been that good without hearing the excessively loud cheering from fans. Look up the video on YouTube. It's amazing.

I know I'm probably a dinosaur in this regard, but I do miss it and hope we can have a combo press conference / Direct format at some point to allow the full hype to be felt by the audience both there and at home.

@Anti-Matter I see it as a first step. The next game in the series will likely include all of the New Horizons features and has the potential to add on the camping and city features from New Leaf, Pocket Camp, and City Folk in new ways. That's what has happened with all AC games to date, with features from Happy Home Designer making it into Pocket Camp and New Horizons, while still keeping the features from earlier games mostly intact.

It's very obviously an "E". The ESRB "Everyone" rating box joins the fight. And he tosses black censorship bars that attach themselves to other fighters and slow them down.

@Xylnox same here. I'm trying to play catch up and get through my back catalog as much as I can before Animal Crossing for Switch launches. Because once that game launches, if past games in the series are any indication, I'm pretty much going to have to give up on catching up for awhile.

@GrandScribe Not just the sad state of the internet structure. Our entire electrical grid. One well-placed EMP and it's bye-bye power grid. Although the loss of gaming would be the least of our concerns if that were to happen.

@KoekiieWoekiie It wouldn't hurt the "snappiness" of the system but would really help with the "happiness" of the system.

...I'll see myself out.

Kind of lost me on "magnesium alloy." I mean, heck yes, I'd love a magnesium alloy body, but that would be a very far departure from Nintendo's "plastic" history with every single previous console I can remember.

@Fandabidozi @CarpeDiem I'm 35 and a pretty big fan of Animal Crossing. I've owned every game since the GameCube with the exception of the horrible Happy Home Designer and it's been great watching the series evolve through the years.

@Grumblevolcano I noticed this too. Neatly coincides with Nintendo of America updates at about the same time (in another time zone of course) https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp

@able_to_think I disagree. Windows 10X looks amazing. Maybe if Microsoft did something like that for the Xbox One, it wouldn't look like such a dumpster fire.

70% of all SpongeBob viewers are over the age of 30, so not surprising that Nintendo focused a lot on that show. They can reach a very wide audience, especially parents who might want one for themselves or their kids.

@Silly_G it's like Google. You can't own it per se. It's a number. However no one else can have a product called Google in search, cloud... Maybe computing entirely. There was no copyright problem here, though. It's not like Nintendo is building a search engine or even a function called Yahoo!... There's another underlying reason for this change and I'm willing to bet it was simply a creative decision and this is being too deeply looked at.

Some people getting their panties in a twist over this game.

@isellpixels we had cell phones in the early 2000s. My first phone was a Nokia flip phone when I was 14 (year 1998). We had smartphones back then as well thanks to Blackberry. However it wasn't until the iPhone in 2007 that smartphones really took off. As much as I despise Apple products, no one can deny that their products have been influential, as noted by the large number of them on this list.

@Octane attach a TV screen to the front of that and take my money lol

@ancientlii Xbox Monolith sounds freaking awesome actually.

@LavaTwilight SuperMarioGlitchy ( https://supermarioglitchy4.fandom.com/wiki/SMG4 )

I watched one of the videos and that was enough

My wife loves this game. I bought it for her birthday and she's lost 10 pounds in the last two weeks!

@USWITCH64 same here. Obviously it's not a Mario Kart, but it does have its own charm and at least features good controls.

@Tandy255 Now I want a Simpson's Hit & Run remake for Switch. It's been awhile since I've played it but I remember it being super fun.

@RupeeClock @ryancraddock If anything, they were downgrades.

@Dezzy In all fairness, isn't pretty much all of Hollywood a collection of "creatively bankrupt corporate hucksters, who care more about positive PR in California than they care about the art"?

@DinnerAndWine This made my day, thank you.

@Madder128 They should have named it Wii 2, so it's clear it's a sequel and not just a tablet for the original.

@JasmineDragon Snarky is okay IMO if you know what you're talking about, which you clearly do lol. You weren't being disrespectful as far as I could tell.

Yeah, downvotes don't mean anything, but still, it would be nice if people would educate themselves instead of thinking that breast cancer is getting preferential treatment over testicular cancer for no reason.

@JasmineDragon Not sure why you were downvoted as your response to @Zeldafan79 was actually right on the money.

Breast cancer is definitely far more common, at least here in the US (and probably the rest of the world too. About 250,000 cases per year in the US alone, versus testicular cancer's roughly 8700 cases per year in the US.

With regard to your statement about it being more likely to kill a person, this is also very true. The treatments for testicular cancer are, fortunately, very effective, with relatively high cure rates even in patients with metastatic disease. For those with breast cancer, the fatality rate is quite a bit higher and it's a lot more difficult to treat.

Okay, I seriously thought we were talking about Switch here. #CoffeeFail