Animal Crossing: New Horizons has breathed life into the Nintendo Switch installment during the Animal Crossing Direct. With a massive free update on the way, and the first paid DLC, Happy Home Paradise, also releasing next month, fans of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have a lot to look forward to and many more hours to spend.
Since the debut of Animal Crossing: New Horizons back in March 2020, the title has been receiving consistent free updates. Some of these were seasonal updates, such as the latest one, the Animal Crossing Halloween event that saw the addition of new items. Recently though, it has looked as though Animal Crossing: New Horizons is slowly shutting the door on future updates, until today where a plethora of new content was revealed.
Although this new Animal Crossing: New Horizons content is exciting and will surely give many players hundreds of hours of content, it looks as though Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update will be the last major one for the game. Additionally, as reported by IGN, Happy Home Paradise, the paid DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, will be the first and only major paid DLC. Afterward, it appears as though Nintendo will continue to support Animal Crossing: New Horizons but only with smaller updates.
It’s currently unclear if these small updates will simply be bug fixes, quality of life improvements, or the addition of a few new items during each seasonal event. Still, with the addition of Brewster, new items, cooking, gyroids, and almost two years of age under its belt, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has provided fans with a plethora of hours. It’s no surprise that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is starting to wind down.
Even though the door on large future updates will close afterward, the positive feedback Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been getting from its latest Nintendo Direct indicates fans believe update 2.0 will last them quite a while. Besides the free Animal Crossing update, the inclusion of Happy Home Paradise looks massive and will easily garner hundreds of hours from players.
Although some might be discouraged from the price tag attached to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons DLC, from the looks of it, Happy Home Paradise seems like it could have been a game on its own. Nintendo has clearly spent its time on the Animal Crossing 2.0 update as well as the paid DLC and it will show in November. Even though these are the last updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, with the amount of content these updates will provide, at least for now, it feels as though Animal Crossing is just beginning all over again rather than ending.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
Source: IGN