So... When IS the Next Animal Crossing?
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Nintendo’s 2024 is shaping up to be exhilarating, and has many fans looking to the future in excitement. Animal Crossing fans are no different, fuelled with anticipation for a new entry in the series. So, when can we expect such a game? Let’s find out!
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if nothing else i really hope the next game has better villager dialogue and brings back celestes observatory. that was my absolute favorite part of ww
I want villagers to be mean and blunt again
I want the villagers to be like new leaf again so bad. They really need to base the new game more off new leaf with differences of course
this is literally all i want from a new ac game
I also want a shopping mall like in New Leaf, with the possibility of upgrading stores like in previous games
if we get to go to space, like some suggest, hopefully we get Celeste’s space cruiser
My hopes for the next one:
- more villager species
- more personalities
- both genders can have the same personality ( lazy female, peppy male ecc)
- more variety with rudeness and general dialogue, have em not like me at first like a normal person ( we don't know each others yet)
- actual biomes to choose from
- being able to interact with items, like bikes, skateboards or idk, breach balls to play with the villagers
- more vivid multyplayer
yesss i never knew why the personalities were divided by gender it makes the villagers boring in my opinion
i belive in new leaf or city folk there was balls you could kick around
I don’t understand why we can’t get in rivers or bathtubs or pools. That’s my wish.
@@lachamita16YES
I wish personalities were more like traits in the Sims series
When's the next pandemic?
Step 1. Invent a soup with the meat of an animal that’s never been taste tested.
Step 2. Serve it to the public
Step 3. Name your new disease after a beer
According to the leaks it should be happening in the next few years
WEFs working on it i guess
The pandemic is still here bozo
@@revetithofsteere6527 strong "I'm being homeschooled" vibes from you girl
If the next game has "new" in the subtitle again I will be upset
Twice was already pushing it
And then they release Animal Crossing New Frontiers where you sail from island to island in an open world animal crossing and make each island your own. XD
New Animal Crossing U
@@thespeedyyoshi Animal Colonialism
Animal crossing: what's old is new again
I really hope we get another game. I just can’t help but feel sad about NH. It was HUGE! So successful! And they just.. abandoned it? I think they could’ve done so much more with it.
They didn't abandon it. They had a plan for it and when they reached the end of that plan. development on it ended. It was never meant to be an open-ended live service constantly updated game and so it wasn't one.
They had no idea how big it would be because they couldn't have foreseen the Pandemic and its impact on the game's sales and popularity. So any team that would have been involved with a longer live service/more updates type game was already put to work on other projects and it likely made more sense to continue forward with whatever schedule they already had in place and plan for the next AC Title rather than to pivot the team back to New Horizons.
this. finally someone who has common sense. in contrary i actually feel bad for nintendo. New horizons is a successful, stand-alone, traditional one time purchase game as it should be, yet these maniacs are so entitled asking for more like as if it was intended as a live service model. they want it to be like sims with endless dlcs or updates milking it for their buck. its so pathetic. im so tired of the whinging, the constant unsatisfaction that the "fanbase" has. its a very good and succesful entry and one of the best ones in the series. they delivered what is promised and everyone got their money's worth. the entitlement is just crazy to see.
I hope the next game really manages to please both sides of the now much more divided community by combining the best aspects and mechanics from new leaf and new horizons (and maybe better dialogue like the older games haha? I know that ones unlikely)
I also want better music. Animal crossing new horizons has like 3 good songs. I miss the old animal crossing music, it had its whole own special charm.
It wont happen. Animal Crossing will just get more simple and childlike. Our world is too sensitive and you can't risk offending anyone. Just treat everyone like they're 10.
I personally think that the success of the last game means we know even less about the next game. I think it's even making things uncertain internally. Animal Crossing compared to most of Nintendo's top selling games wasn't a bundled game so that means it might very well be in their top 3 for highest grossing games ever. So the question is how do you follow up on that? Do you double down on the potential gold mine or do you assume it was a fluke and continue business as usual?
I really want to keep the decoration and terraforming. But without neglecting villagers, and NPCs.
New horizons was my first animal crossing game and i really liked it but the villagers just felt...off. after getting the same lines over and over again I just couldn't get my friendship with them up because it was so boring, so i don't talk to them. It makes me sad because I've started playing 3ds games more and happy home designer is great, i actually picked up new leaf to try on my next long trip. I was just disappointed to hear that i can't change my skin colour to suit me more, and in 2013 no less? The huge lack of customisation is a big shock, i hope they get the balance just right next time.
Am I the only one who was obsessed with City Folk?? I personally want the new game to bring back aspects and the vibe from it. I don't like how in New Horizons all the tools break and there is an immense amount of designing/customization. My brain prefers the simplicity of the older games.
City folk was the best!!!! I have so much nostalgia from it and I LOVEDDD going to the city!!! It was soooo cute. The simplicity made the game so relaxing
City folk was the first animal crossing game I played and I played it for HOOOOURS as a young kid. Amazing game, I really hope they bring back some aspects of it!!
City folk was literally a wild world reskin. In my opinion, wild world holds up better
Hated the deterioration of grass. I think City Folk is the one I played the least.
I loved how much shit you could unlock compared to new horizons
In the next animal crossing game I really hope they add min games you can playing with random people online
THIS!! NL multiplayer is goated
@@AlexisTwoLastNamesi been sayin it for years new leaf is the best one with friends, made me upset there was nothing to do in new horizons
just more for multiplayer in general tbh! like whats the point in expanding multiplayer to 8 ppl on one island if you cant do anything?
exactly new horizons is too focused on decorating and terraforming its just ugh
2026 at the earliest is my guess
I desperately want Tortimer’s Island to come back, NH would’ve been the perfect game to have it make a return in but they didn’t do it. I also kinda want Dr.Shrunk to make a return so that I don’t have to wait for ages just to learn reactions. And most importantly, I need a way to evict unwanted villagers at any time and less dialogue from NPCs like Orville. There’s more I want but I don’t wanna leave a longer comment than this lol
I agree with you so much about Tortimer’s Island. It was SO fun to be able to meet up with randoms from all over the world online. I thought for sure there would be something like that in NH. It was a completely missed opportunity to do something amazing since people love to socialize through games
I miss tortimer’s island. Me and my brother played that connnnsssssttaaaannnttttllyyyyy.
I've bought every Animal Crossing game when they were new. I grew up with this series. I hope the next game is like the pre-Horizons ones, as in having actual gameplay instead of being *Animal Designer: Dollhouse Simulator*. I'm all for design and I love the new character customization options, but it shouldn't replace everything else (ie shop upgrades, fantastical/quirky furniture, old Gyroids, etc).
I hope tool durability doesn't return. It makes sense on a deserted island. Still can't believe they removed axes visually degrading as they got closer to breaking. I hope we get hair longer than shoulder length. Realistic furniture is good, but I'd rather have them sit alongside the oddball furniture pieces from the older games! Remember how the froggy chair wasn't included at launch?
Oh! Bring back GracieGrace! Lol
@@birdie8006 Yeah!! I might not use any of their sets myself, but seeing what other people cook up with them is great! Plus, seeing all these super expensive furniture pieces when you first start out, then eventually being able to buy them without going broke? That's a good feeling! I also like the fancy clothes they have. I used the Gracie shelves in my New Leaf house because it was a nice dark wood color which matched the bookcases I had.
@@bobbob1876 Gracie furniture was underrated but very expensive lolol. I miss the old new leaf sets and gyroids
I fail to see how the examples represent the "actual gameplay" we're missing
@@squiddu I was listing removed content. I can't get back into New Horizons because there's barely anything to do but design and decorate. In New Leaf, it always felt like there was something next to work towards, such as a new store upgrade which will sell new items, or working towards a golden tool with unique abilities. I was surprised when I first saw the upgraded Nooklings store selling K.K. songs! In New Horizons, there's just the first store upgrade, and that's it. You have so few ways of obtaining items compared to NL that it feels like you don't have much choice-- and unlike in New Leaf, you can't recolor something that you bought from the store even if a different color of it exists! The unique abilities that silver and gold tools offered gave the game more depth, but in New Horizons, we don't even have silver tools, and gold ones are just slightly more durable (except the watering can, which has more range iirc). Silver axes let you get special tree stumps to get mushrooms, golden shovels boosted fertilizer potency, better slingshots shot more pellets-- imagine if we could make mushroom farms in New Horizons!
I just want better dialogue like the older games. I honestly don’t care about anything else
i just really hope new AC games bring back being able to upgrade nooks cranny to “emporium” like in previous games. I can’t believe they didn’t include that in new horizons!
Me too! When I realized I wouldn't be upgrading my store I was disappointed. In retrospect it was good though, since the game launched with pretty limited buyable furniture...
true, but I really missed features like Gracie where we can buy "luxury goods" and rare furniture sets late game!@@anacrea3931
My ideal Animal Crossing game is a combination of New Leaf and New Horizons. Whenever I go back to NL I miss NH's QoL features. Simple stuff like Bells automatically going into your wallet when you pick them up. A version of NL that keeps NH's QoL, outdoor decorating (but make it easier like in HHP), cooking and farming, and character customization would be a perfect game to me. Maybe instead of selecting a map at the start we could just design our own, choosing where we want rivers and hills and such.
like many have said, now that they have such a robust base to build off of with NH i hope they can have the time to bring back some of the weird little… quirks of older games, like better dialogue/friendship progression with villagers, or just more strange day to day happenings. i’m cautiously, optimistic that like the 2d mario team listened that the AC team have heard the critiques older fans have made while still keeping/building on what newer fans where enjoying.
same same same, and I think all the feedback online basically says the same thing, so hopefully they'll listen? i want my AC games to be lively and strange...
I want villagers to be mean to me again im BEGGING 😭
I want the next AC to be more about the life with villagers. They were more interesting in the 3ds ac.
Pretty shallow on the one on switch...
I’d love better character dialogue and the options to place other characters shops as buildings in the village. Also the ability to upgrade those buildings
god I hope you’re right. I would die for a new animal crossing game. one that hopefully expands on the villagers and their personalities this time around
Id love if the new animals crossing would be city themed like new leaf is village themed, new horizons island themed and so the new one hopefully city themed 🤩 + we need more activities in this game so it won’t get boring quick :( I still wanna play ac after a year too!
That would be cool, but there’s already a city themed animal crossing game on the Wii. It’s called City Folk so I think that the new animal crossing game (if it was city themed) would just be a copy of City Folk… but maybe the new AC game could have the city (from City Folk) in it, also have a village, and an island place? It would be cool if we could get a map of places with different villagers in each place and you could decorate in every place and it was like a world of AC or something. I think that would be cool imo! /nm
I just want the depressing lore and dialogue to come back
I hope they bring back facilities from the dlc but this time you can make them yourself from scratch and place them where you want in your town/city including the feature where you can assign different villagers to a job inside the facility, but now you also determine how much they work there and when.
Hey @Protendo question for you. If the next animal crossing were to come out what theme would you pick for this new game? I personally would love the next game to be themed around moving to the big city, where Tortimer and T.Nook are trying to renovate/ bring back to life a worn down district that has loads of vacant buildings for villagers and a majority of the shops back, including the museum, club K.k, a park with the big tree in a plaza, the post office and police station, Gracie’s etc and our villager is somehow the one to help make it all happen! in exchange we get to move into a third floor apartment etc which we can upgrade over time like the houses. Would love to see a video where you discuss your own ideas!
Can’t say it’ll be soon, but if you’re interested in seeing my ideas for the next game there’ll definitely be an exciting thing going down in a few months.
@@Protendo brilliant I’m looking forward to it!
omg i was thinking something like this!!! i saw cute cafe art of some characters and thought a game where you selected which shops went where, decorated, chose the villagers and even had your favorites run the actual stores (like a peppy running their own fashion type of boutique) would be so cute, everyone could give merengue her perfect cafe !!!!!
I’ve been wanting this for the longest time!!!!!! Living on a deserted island was one extreme, I get why people like it, but I prefer the other end of the spectrum, i love the idea of living in an upgradable apartment in the city and being able to get away to a more rural area through a train or something, maybe you can either choose to live in either place
Animal Crossing: Detroit Michigan
Wish they'd bring back shop upgrades and the town tree and I miss the police station with copper and booker or the post office with pelly and Phyllis 😢
Also new designs for the resident hall because wtf Nintendo. New leaf had town hall customization.
I want flea market days back! Scrap the current fishing/bug festivals and return the old ones
at 2:00 animal crossing new horizons launched in 2020, not 2023
I hope the next animal crossing game has better ambience music. I really wasn’t rocking with new horizon’s 😭
if they made NL with the ability to put furniture outside and some of the town customization abilities from NH, it would be perfect
I would be excited for the prospect of a new game in the series, but after what New Horizons did, my views on a new game is uncertain. There's a chance that the game will double down on what I disliked about New Horizons and further kill the charm that I loved from this series.
I hope the long period of wait time allows the dev team to review feedback the same way they did with New Leaf.
i mean so far it goes bad game, good game, bad game, so it can only go up from here! new leaf came after city folk which alot of people hated
New Horizons was worth the hype for me. I'm just as excited to see what the next game will be like.
Well if the next console has strong hardware to run big games hopefully they can squeeze in more things to do around your town like more shops or more attractions
@@SlushysSecret It wasn't really about Hardware with New Horizons. It was more just a direct shift in the old staff, which caused new staff to take the reigns.
I always figured they'd shoot a few spin-offs since the name is poppin and it's good time to put out some low-effort, end of life Switch games. Kinda crazy there's been nothing yet.
Super weird they haven’t gone for anything. Atp I’m assuming they see Happy Home Paradise as taking the place that a spin-off would
I love that this video isn’t clickbaity speculation but has strong arguments behind it!
Jumped into this video thinking "It's way too early to be speculating something like that" and I'm here to say that you were quite convincing. Very well reasoned.
Unfortunately, this comment was motivated by my nit-picking. Felt wrong to only have it be that, though. While your words are correct, new horizons was 7 years after new leaf, the year on screen at the time (2:00) is 2023 instead of 2020. I checked the description and other comments to see if you'd already seen it and chose to upload anyway or something, but I didn't see anything. Personally, I'd leave it up. Engagement is engagement, and that already generated one comment, lol.
Whoops, great to see my “writing 2024 as 2023” mistakes this month somehow carried into writing 2020 as 2023 lol
hoping we get a major pendulum swing and the next AC game goes back to the city, maybe even with customizable layouts/stores etc. would be a great way to differentiate from similar concepts shown in city folk and new leaf
YESS I was upset to see that New Horizons didn’t have a town plaza like New Leaf did. I think it made the island seem more “realistic” compared to New Horizons where it feels like everything is fabricated to be perfect.
I’m begging on my hands and knees to just be able to make multiple items at once in NH instead of going through the “wooo I made fish bait.” Give me a little more agency for the love of god Nintendo.
Before a new Animal Crossing, my dream is that they’ll remaster/rerelease the original ACGC. It’s over 20 years old, it has never seen a rerelease. It could be released in the same way that they’ve remastered Metroid Prime and Pikmin 1+2 recently and shadow dropped them.
That would be a fantastic idea. It’s different enough to be fun alongside NH.
@@ReveriePass Right? And factoring in that it's still probably gonna be a little while 'til the next mainline AC (and noting that the gap between NL and NH saw a variety of spinoffs), rereleasing the GC original would be a really fun, easy way to fill in the gap for fans!
i want them to remaster it too since i never got to play it when i was younger, i might just buy it and play it on my wii since i feel like theyre just gonna put it in the subscription which im not paying for. id happily pay for it though if its seperate
New Leaf is such an important game to me because it was my first ever animal crossing game. I remember playing it every single day for multiple years! New Horizons has such a different feel thats hard to describe, they added really cool stuff but i feel like they really missed the mark for most fans! I think they should add ruder dialog(lol), bring back older characters (gracie pls..), and really refine everything before a new game comes out. I think it all comes down to listening to fans. The biggest bummer is the fact that it really feels like Nintendo gave up on NH after a few months. It could have been the best game in the franchise but they played too safe imo.
I want music like the older games or at least an option to change it to a different game’s hourly music.
Disappointing how their mobile game had more life to it than the console game.
And I absolutely loved being able to drag and drop seamlessly with my finger/stylus. That cannot be incorporated into a controller as well.
i dont understand why they didnt use the touchscreen for new horizons as it was used in the past games, was hard to get used hope they utilise it for the next animal crossing
If not touch controls, I would appreciate more interactivity and a minigame section akin to Tortimer's island.
I didn't intend to play New Horizons like a sandbox, so I couldn't get as much enjoyment out of it.
Here is my prediction for Animal Crossing 6: We won't see or hear about the game at all this year from Nintendo, but rumors of the game will start to surface around December of this year. The game will then release in late 2025 or early 2026.
I hope they bring back mean villagers, villager quests (like in the original) and New Leaf Quality music.
I just wanna say I love your videos. I always look forward to seeing them. Your editing is phenomenal and your voice is soothing. Keep it up!!👍
I do hope everyone including Nintendo keeps their expectations in check for how many copies animal crossing 6 will sell, because it's not doing 40mill again, probably not even 30mill
while i do think it’s commercial success was greatly aided by the pandemic. there are a LOT of legacy fans who will buy, and because of the grand success of NH it’s brought in a bunch of new fans who would buy a new title. it may not do 40mil, but i really don’t think numbers will be an issue
It would be so nice if they did events every now and then like on pocket camp so we would at least always have something new to do
Ok i got some wishes so let me list them.
1. Definitely keep the customisation-able freedom of New Horizon.
2. Bring back stronger personalities for neighbours! And give them back some independence - especially abt the moving part…
3. Expand. It’d be /amazing/ if you could start in a town like ACNL, but be able to maybe unlock new places - for example repair or unlock a bridge to an island that you can design as well? Add a (bigger) city where the main street in ACNL is and make it more customisable as well (e. g. Change the exteriors or like in HHD design a store or place of your choice).
4. Keep it walkable though - no cars or anything. I think the accessibility of the game, the village-y feel of it is what makes it so enchanting. It has to be confined, and familiar.
4. Maybe add more fun daily events? Bring back april fool’s day! Add fun celebrations! Maybe some achievements throughout your longtime gameplay…
I think if those got added I’d buy the game and whatever console it’d be on.
The most important thing is probably to bring back the original spirit of the game - coming into a world that exists on its own already, where you learn to settle in and live - but still give the opportunity to design and create if you want to.
I definitely want items to be rotated 360 degrees or at least give us some diagonal options. Also I'm a bit torn about the car thing. It might be cool to hop on a bicycle or something. Makes the items even more alive but yes, still walkable, but not necessary to use a car because it's too far
What i would love in the next AC is support for events. I ran a Fringe Festival on ACNH in 2020, being inspired by all the people running games and talk shows and parties in game. With HHP we got a lot of performance-related furniture. It'd be great if the next AC capitalized on that! For instance - playable instruments, ability to embed your own media, some way to patch microphone input, even a license to host paid events on AC.
I really love animal crossing I'm really hoping they have taken in the full spectrum of opinions, and will release something more balanced. I also think that releasing an incomplete game is unacceptable. I have no opinion on release dates and stuff.
this is what gets me through the winter. animal crossing portend videos
there's some really clever writing in your script this video!!! i enjoyed this very much :) how long does it take to write a video like this?
I didn’t even think that a new version of animal crossing might someday await us
I can see them *announcing* a release in '25, and it being released in '26.
Games are getting bigger and better. There is a lot to Animal crossing now and I think its going to take more time if we wanna see quality upgrades. Sure, it could come out sooner but then there might not be many changes (same furniture, etc). If we want a brand new, reinvisioned AC game we're gonna need to wait a bit. ACNH still has a lot to offer and can still be enjoyed for another 2 years. Spring 2026 at the earliest, but I wouldn't be surprised if they released it in 2027.
If we don’t get a new mainline game within two years of the Switch successor’s launch, then I’m pretty certain we’ll get New Leaf HD to bridge the gap
Yeah I agree with you. But honestly it would be great to see it remastered with NH graphics
animal crossing is my special interest so it holds a very near and dear place in my heart; however, i don't think it's realistic to expect a new mainline game anytime in the next few years. the switch was released in 2017 and new horizons didn't come out until three years later, meaning if the switch 2 DOES come out this year then we'll likely be waiting another few years for another main AC game. it's also important to note that 1) the switch 2 will definitely be backwards compatible, and 2) new horizons is a HUGE game, even with everything missing from previous games, and is nearly twice as large as new leaf was. ACNH is definitely not my favourite animal crossing game, but i think we're going to be stuck with it for a while longer
acnh is not a huge game by any means, and definitely not bigger than acnl, i didn't even make it a month or two before i'd exhausted all the goals in nh (five star town, upgraded shop, all the fish and bugs in season at the time) vs years of playing nl without even completing all the shop upgrades because there were so many other things to focus on.
Would love some sort of mix between New Leaf and New Horizon based on the new leaks. Like a main city you can reach via bus like in city volk. You move to a small city with maybe three other villagers, a townhall etcs as you help the town flurish into something bigger, convincing people from the city (shopkeepers) to move to your village. You get to pick where they place their shops and get top pick the location of houses again plus plots. Plots are place connected to the house in forms of tiles that sort of form the garden area around the townies houses in which they place their own stuff and decorate based on their personality etc. Allowing you to still decide where to have what and how the plots are formed layout wise while giving back the freedom of your fellow neighbours to express their own will when it comes to their gardens and houses.
You would still need to head to the city for stuff as permits etc or the adsh or even immonook, but step by step you make your town more indepent by getting the museum (or maybe something else), nooks shop, able sisters as well as new stuff like an independ garden center.
Even stuff like giving us back the amount of fruits in new leaf or even the mobile game is a good start, maybe adding perfect fruits back. You could start your town with one random fruit, random flowers and one random bush type (strawberry, blueberry etc)
I'm in the middle of writing a script for a video about what I think we should have in the next Animal Crossing game.
I love the DIY aspect and hope it’s in the next, but I also hope they allow us to DIY multiples. Making fish hair during shark season/when I’m having trouble filling out my critterpedia gives me carpal tunnel
i just hope they give us more furniture, specially for more concrete sets, like egg say being the only holiday set w a bed was disappointing
You're my favorite new youtuber of 2024 ^w^ The chill vibes, with the very clear narration and sprinkled edits is a golden combination.
Fall is especially likely since even new leaf wasn’t truly a summer release. No one remembers to mention this but new leaf was a November release in Japan
Be nice if they brought stuff back from New Leaf(city section for more store areas & to feel like we have more places to explore, minigames from Welcome Amiibo) & maybe just bring back dialogue from Wild World cause that made it feel so lively & brought depth to some characters.(Cranky villagers acting grumpy/annoyed but showing moments that they care about you, that dialogue that implies the normal villagers have a mop they turned into a makeshift friend to practice socializing on) Maybe find a way to bring old characters back, they don't need to be doing their jobs(well maybe the bird characters in the imagined city section) but give them somewhere to be/hang out that isn't just a random chance at the Brewster's place & doesn't involve amiibos. Also bring back villagers actually responding to the letters you sent cause you can send on in NH & they can send one but it's never in response to you if you send something.
This is a great video and I agree with your theories. To add more evidence to it, with the ACNH DLC they added HD (as HD as the switch can get I guess) character models for every single amiibo card, including NPCs like Chip, Nat, etc. That's a LOT of work for just some random characters a tiny population of the playerbase would see because they had the amiibos to use in the roost/happy home paradise. So they absolutely laid the groundwork for a bigger title, for sure. I just hope they add in more of the life sim elements the original games had. That said, I think that it's also important to note that not only was ACNH a console seller - it was a console seller to an audience that is mostly untapped by other consoles. Extremely casual (non)gamers. (I say 'non' in the context of these folks probably never touching games before outside of maybe some light mobile gaming.) Even people's moms and grandmas were picking up switches to play ACNH and even better, they STUCK WITH it for years. I have no doubt that influx of more casual (non)gamers helped sell other franchises that are historically less popular, like pikmin 4. I don't think a casual gamer would buy a switch to play pikmin 4 because they likely had no idea it existed. But if they already had a switch because they got in on the ACNH craze, and they see pikmin 4 in the eshop and think it looks neat, they might give it a shot and enjoy it. That's a key aspect to ACNH's value that I think Nintendo probably took into account. The game was not only a console seller, it was also a console INTRODUCER/influencer which in turn became a franchise seller. Now I know Nintendo has made some bizarre decisions in the past, but it would be obscenely silly for them to not continue to cash in on this craze. Now you have old school AC fans like me desperate for a new game, but you've got a bunch of people who likely miss the community around the game and would love a chance to experience that again, even without covid. If they don't release a new AC within a year of the new console launching, I will be absolutely boggled. At the very least, if they want to ensure they give the switch 2 some time to breathe and sell enough units before they release a game that is so crucially multiplayer for 60% of its experience, they need to give ACNH an HD patch to tide everyone over and release the new game in early 2026. TY for this video. I was one of the few people left posting 'take my energy' every time Nintendo had a direct before they announced ACNH. I have no doubt that there's much more of us out there now.
it would be really cool to see the next animal crossing title expand into something like a city building kind of game -- it doesn't have to be too big, just enough to where you can see a lot of different villagers come and go, since there's so many at this point :) we kind of got a taste with city folk, but i always wished the plaza would just be a little bigger and more interactive. i like the coziness of being in a small town, but it'd be nice to see the series take a different kind of step!
I would die for an open world Animal crossing with boats and more customisation and maybe a hotel spin off
I think AC is absolutely on its way for the next big release. TotK and SM Wonder have both been released within the same year, and I feel it might be released with the newest switch (switch 2).
I only hope for more original personality in each villager, to be able to place objects diagonally, as well as to be able to interact with objects how they’re intended for irl.
considering there wouldn't be any updated graphics (which seems to be a major point for new animal crossing games imo) and the last update for the game was released not too long ago, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get a new game until 2026-2027 at the earliest
I would love to see AC ultimate with every special characters returning plus a couple new ones! I would also love to see an expanded city feature like city folk but much much bigger. Living in a small town with a train or subway station being the mode of transportation.
Some cute features I think would be fun:
1. More elongated character story like talking to sable every day
2. More events like farmers market in the summer or lights viewing around Christmas and new years
3. Less design focused play (but still optional for those who love that)
4. Better villager dialog and centering on building relationships
5. New collectible features in the museum or in another store (for example, Leif owns a greenhouse you can fill with hybrid flowers you grow yourself)
Two things to consider with ARMS are that…
1. While Nintendo did deem the game a success & it sold pretty good for a new fighting game franchise, it’s also not a system-seller. ARMS is more along the lines of a Xenoblade-tier franchise (or Pikmin outside of Japan).
2. Because of that last fact, ARMS 2 could follow Pikmin 4’s lead & be outsourced to a third-party developer. Studio 2 (the other Bandai Namco x Nintendo team who have a history of working with EPD 9, with Studio S seemingly working on Smash 6) is working on a 3D action game with “remastered backgrounds”. While most automatically assumed that the game itself is a remaster, it could very well be ARMS 2 with some stages returning from the first game while EPD 9 proper works on Mario Kart 10.
Back to Animal Crossing, I 100% agree that 2025 will be when we get the next AC entry.
They could've just kept updating new horizons to bring everything new leaf had and expand upon it. Also add better dialogue. Why is that so hard for nintendo to do? They have enough money, don't they care about improving their games?
it should've been like that at the start tho... these days there's a problem where games get released unfinished and keep getting updates
@@vividspop I agree! The best thing about new horizons is the dlc. Which is just an expanded happy home designer 3ds.
Love this vid bro, keep it up.
I really hope they bring back some old features, dialogue being one of them. I think one thing that acnh was also sorely missing was charm? In a sense? And weird random npcs (even old npcs like why?) Like say in city folk we had the fountain spirit and the lost kitten, I’d love to see random npcs like that more often. Or even Celeste’s laboratory would be amazing, I rlly want to make constellations in my towns again
i feel like march/ April 2025 is more likely for a release date, as the big issue with late year releases was that winter for the longest time was considered the boring time as it has the least stuff (though it has improved) so i don't see them going back to it honestly...
as for what i hope for, i loved the customization and building aspect of the game, i just felt like that til the game felt unfinished til they released the dlc with all the items. so they should release with at minimum as much items and stuff in game as they ended with, and then continue adding more to the game in future dlcs even if paid
and please please add a whole bunch of pocket camp items and such, they could allow even more customization on our items with all the tree items and flowers and such that everyone islands could really show our personalities even more
and please let the shops evolve like old games again
i'm hoping we will get some better villager dialogue more akin to wild world days, more fun multiplayer options (like we had with tortimers island) and overall more objectives to make game progression feel less stagnant!!
I'd love to see a video on what you think AC6 would even entail! I struggle to think what features they would add or how the design would change!
This was the most thoughtful and reasonable prediction video I've seen for AC
i want the meanness from the original animal crossing. it’s clear that the teenage/adult pool of ppl who play is greater than the kids.
my wishlist:
- better villager dialogue
- being able to customize your island base better! it sucks if I find a design for an island that I like but their river mouth is on the opposite side of mine!
- bring back all the old villagers and furniture sets (there's only like 30 villagers missing from NH so it shouldn't be too tricky)
- more store npcs and upgrades! what if city folk had NH's level of customizability?
- minigames or more interactivity! what if you could buy items from vending machines, or actually ride the bike or surf on the surfboard!
- personalities aren't gender-specific--I want cranky girls and peppy males! why are all the male personalities so aggressive?
- better local and ONLINE multiplayer (so player 2 isn't just running around)
- maybe an option for gender-neutral dialogue when talking about the player? wouldn't personally use this but the fact it's one of the most popular mods for the game says a lot!
- if they bring back crafting, please...let us bulk craft! and no gold tools breaking!
It’s Japan they have gender specific personalities is because it’s popular in Japan watch any anime and you’ll see how similar their personalities are
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Your wifu pillow doesn't count
@@alkhemist95 I don't own one lol
I have a girlfriend who I plan to marry 😆
I'm hoping that the next game will bring back many features from the older games, or that it's a remake of the gamecube version, ds, wii or New Leaf ones.
Some AI integration for villager dialogue would be really cool, too, but I’m not sure how feasible that would be.
I really hope they’d expand more on the online aspect of AC with the next game. New Horizons is definitely a start, but it’s nowhere near being called a true multiplayer experience.
Just as I thought, 2025.
I'm looking fordward to screaming like a child when they tease it.
If we're being realistic, I think 2026-2027 at the EARLIEST. We just have to accept now that games take way longer to develop. Aswell with AC always getting the short end of the stick. But I think we'll definitely get another spin off game in the meantime
Wow, first vid i've seen of yours and you laid this out really, really well. Sad to hear it's still a little ways away, but honestly it's for the best - especially seeing how Nintendo fumbled on the release (but got awful lucky we were all inside rotting away anyway!). Amazing retrospective, I haven't seen some of the details debated that you added in about the teams between AC and Splatoon in anyone else's videos. Also fun to hear what you consider cancelled out (Zelda, Mario Party, Smash etc) as early releases, but your logic makes perfect sense and I can see their marketing and sales teams coming up with a similar plan. Great video, excellent script, editing, and voice over - subbed!
When they make a new Animal Crossing,they should add some of the stuff from pocket camp,like furniture and hair,I can't stand the microtransactions and how random the furniture is and how rare those hair styles pop up
and that Animal Crossing New Horizons wasn't made in 2023 when I came out but in 2020, so three years have already passed for Animal Crossing New Horizons!Times go by really quickly but the video is nice!
Amazing video thanks for sharing! I wonder if we will see Nintendo port New Leaf in between the wait for AC6
i just want a remaster of new leaf for the switch
I would LOVE some rude villagers like the classic games. I think it would be cute if they let you toggle rudeness. Cuz I know that some people said the rudeness bothered them but I think super rude villagers would be really funny. Honestly would be cool if they could implement AI somehow for unique dialogue for villagers.
Also would love mini games and more stuff to be able to do with friends cuz I love having people visit my island but we have nothing to do together. Giving us some more NPCs would be great. I loved the Harv’s island RV feature that was added. And more stuff to unlock through interaction only (like the hairstyles with Harriet) would be fun. More space for controlled modding would be nice…I loved the star frag trees. LESS SEA BASS. Making the game more playable post K.K. Slider and terraforming would be wonderful.
I'm excited for what's next with animal crossing. New norizons was my first from the series so I might be a little biased, but it's genuinely my favourite video game of all time. I love the community aspect of it and designing my island is my creative output these days. It's an integral part of my day at this point. But i do agree with the criticism, it's getting a little boring. So I'm excited for whats coming, i love animal crossing so much I hope they saw how obsessed people became with it during the pandemic and try to give us something big and juicy. Like others I'm hoping for a blend of new leaf and new horizons. I hope Nintendo really has their ear to the ground and saw that people were nostalgic for the older dialogue. I think the series could really benefit from incorporating more throwbacks and get people interested in the older games in the series. More than anything i just hope we have way more items to play with and more customization options. and if it doesn't include a way to toggle between the land and water shovel during construction I'm gonna eat my switch so they put me on the news and complain about it.
I want a camper Van in the next animal crossing game
I see it being a right-before Christmas release with the new console it's self. I know I'm not going to want to upgrade from the switch without a new game that I'm interested in and unless TOTK was just a tie-over to a secret project then we aren't going to be seeing a Zelda soon. Mario.. well he has so many games to him that I haven't even gotten to play yet. It feels like AC would be the most likely release game. I somewhat hope it is almost city based because we have a game where we can visit a city but not one where we can build in one. It can be a farm to small town to apartment complexes although that may be a bit bothersome to have the whole theme to be based on making a city but maybe a city block you can develop would be fun or at least choose to build complex buildings. Hoping that maybe you'd be able to design and upgrade your own shops. We get a taste of this in the current game.
The DLC to NH gave us a lot of creativity without the need to reset an island for a clean canvas. There is a personal desire to do landscaping in the vacation homes plots as well so it could be a fun feature. I don't want a game without nature of course that's why I'm thinking maybe a game with several locations to visit instead of a full on city because that is too far away from the original charm.
I'd like to see it laid out like you get a city map to place down some plots and maybe edit the streets in an overview. You get a museum, cafe, restaurant, boutique, general store, grocery store, a bank ... you know all the essentials but also an apartment complex for the main characters? Imagine putting together an apartment for Isabell or Digby and upgrades in the home improve something in their business? but then you have a town and country side location. The countryside you can grow your produce and flowers, go fishing ect go camping! For real this time and not just for 2 weeks of gameplay because your need to unlock things progresses the game so fast that you don't really feel the need to rough it. Then you have a town you're developing. Can be a bit of a call back to new leaf but you have more hands on the development of each section. I do also like the idea of a randomized house location as an -option-
No matter what they do I hope you can store crafting items in the actual work bench as an unlockable (probably a good achievement that takes a bit) just for quality of life and I'm obsessed with organization.
IDK if that counts as a prediction or just daydreaming lol but it would be fun. Who knows, the next AC could be a world tour.. wait they already did that. Animals in space?
I got into this game super late. I wish I knew about it during pandemic. I got it a few weeks ago. I love it alot. I wish the villagers had dialog as they once were with being snoody and rude. Maybe they could make it an option to have the villagers nice or rude or maybe a mix. I like the game alot so far and a newbie so I cannot relate to this game getting old because I literally just played.
Enjoy it!
This is a very good video. Super informative, and now I'm excited for a new animal crossing again
It will be more then 3 years until a part 2
If the Switch 2 releases this year I hope that we'll see an Animal Crossing game this winter or in early spring next year.
I definitely think they should branch out and do something weird like apartments or hotel??? I think it would be fun and refreshing
Protendo vid and it's about AC? sign me up!
I hope they keep some new things from New Horizons but also make the next game unique! I definitely hope they prioritize personality and characters in the next game. I also think it would be awesome if they brought back collaboration with other nintendo games (pokemon items, splatoon villagers, etc!)
And I 10000% hope they devlop the next game ethically and without rushing it
i still think it’s a few years off but i would LOVE them to remaster new leaf to release in between the wait for the next one like being able to play that game again on switch and online with others would be incredible 😭
i really hope we get the ability to change our character's name as well so if we change our irl names we can change it to match
Because no Direct or news of new Nintendo games mentioned at E3, etc. I predict we will get a new console announcement Feb. or March. I think they might throw "what's coming" video in. This will just show Nook and Isabelle. Then later, maybe fall, we'll get a Direct that shows it off with 2025 release date! So I think your prediction is right on the money!!
I'd love to see an Animal Crossing game set in a city or at least an area that is slightly denser than what we've gotten in previous titles.