The title can be enjoyed with up to eight players living on the same island; Up to four users playing together on a single Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo Australia has updated the official website of Animal Crossing: New Horizons with a lot of new details of the long-awaited return of the saga for Nintendo Switch. The title, the main launch for the console this first half of 2020, will have an ambitious multiplayer mode that we will detail below.
Up to 8 players simultaneously with online multiplayer mode
As extracted from the official portal, up to 8 players may reside on the same island. In total, 4 players can play together simultaneously with the same console in the case of local multiplayer mode.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you look at the online mode, up to 8 people can play together on the same island through either the local multiplayer mode (each with its console) or with the online multiplayer mode (which will require an active account in the Nintendo Switch service On-line.
“Up to 8 players with a registered Nintendo Switch account can live on a shared island; and up to four residents of an island can play simultaneously using a single console, ”they comment. It should be said that only one island can be created per console account, so that Animal Crossing: New Horizons will have a single save file. If we want to start a game on a different island with our Nintendo Switch, it will be necessary to do so with a different Nintendo account.
“As an alternative, up to 8 people can play together on an island via local communication or online multiplayer mode. The local multiplayer mode requires a console and one copy of the game per player, ”they expand. They have not transcended more details, at the expense of Nintendo itself offering expanded coverage of what awaits us with the first original installment of the main saga since 2013, with Animal Crossing: New Leaf for Nintendo 3DS, which sold 12.36 million units .
Nintendo has taken the opportunity to announce this Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing: New Horizons Aloha Edition
March 20: launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons will launch on March 20, 2020 exclusively for Nintendo Switch. Its producer and director, Hisashi Nogami and Aya Kyogoku, respectively, commented at the end of last year why the game will begin on a desert island.
