 Animal Crossing New Horizons is coming to Nintendo's Switch on March 20th, I believe and With it has been a lot of excitement a lot of anticipation for a game that we're not really aware of what all of the new features are I mean we were aware of a couple I guess bigger new features But we're not exactly where what differentiates this game in Totality from all of the other Animal Crossing games and there's some high expectations Because we haven't had a home console one since like city folk back on we And it's been eight years since we've had a full-blown Animal Crossing game You know pocket camp on our phones set aside It's been eight years since we've had a full-blown Animal Crossing game and that was on 3ds So there's a lot of expectations and hope and excitement for this one But so far the information we have discovered about the game While small hasn't exactly been positive And that's concerning for a game coming out in 2020 That's supposed to be one of the big games on switch and probably will be it's to be fair It's going to sell very well despite these negative things that are coming out about it Just like sword and shield despite all the internet negativity around it It's one of the best-selling if not the best-selling Pokemon games of all time So let's get into what the news is so we can fairly look at this from a consumer perspective And why these things are actually bad and especially bad for a game considering How many hours you're supposed to really sink into a game like Animal Crossing which is hundreds if not thousands all right, so As you can see here the first bit of news came over the weekend I said you can only have one island per console and Animal Crossing new horizons now This was discovered on I believe the Australian. Yeah, the Australian official website Let's read what it says about it on the Australian official website It says up to eight players with registered accounts on a Nintendo switch console can live on one shared island and Up to four residents of one island can play simultaneously on one console Please note only one island can exist per Nintendo switch console Irrespective of the number of user accounts registered to or copies of the game used on one console So that's obviously a point of connection Just read what else it says for context one Nintendo switch and one copy of the game is required for each island Alternatively up to eight people can play together on one island via local wireless or online play Local wireless play requires one console and one copy of the software per player Internet connection required during online play to use online services You must have a Nintendo account and accept a related agreement Nintendo come privacy policy applies Some online services may not be available in all countries online play requires a paid online membership So what I get from this is that it doesn't matter if as an example my Daughter has a switch right and I have a switch and She wants to put her account on my switch like it is and she wants to play Her island of Animal Crossing with them wants to play it on my switch because we happen to be in a situation Where she doesn't have access to her switch she can't Not really Because she needs to be able to access the other switch to gain access to that island over wireless play And even then is it going to show up properly is still her even though she's using her account No, she'll be stuck playing on my island on my switch. This is That this is weird because this is one of the first times I can remember that if you have multiple people play on a system They can't have their own save file basically is what this is they like they can exist But they can't exist in their own thing It's a shared island per console. That is a very strange decision now It's not strange to allow that as an option But it shouldn't be the only option for families like me that maybe we don't want to share our Island with our children and we want our children to have their own island And then we want to have our island with our friends or whatever We can't really do that on the same system We have to go through all this hullabaloo a plane online and other people hosting and it's just not it's not exactly the shared Experience or the individualized experience that I think we've all come to expect from Nintendo games over time And I get that for most of us this probably won't be a big deal because we don't share our switches We don't use multiple accounts on our switches as a parent That's obviously something I deal with but that's not something that is necessarily common with a lot of people that watch my videos So I can see how this might not be a major concern for you But this next one is and this is a major concern for everyone playing Animal Crossing the same way it was for Splatoon 2 All right says you're a Nintendo let that you might not be able to transfer Animal Crossing New Horizons save data to another switch And what happened is there was a post of the back of the system on The Nintendo switch subreddit from German. It's the German back of the box And it reveals that it won't be possible to transfer data between two separate switch consoles So you won't be able to take your data off of this console and transfer to another the same things basically true Well, it's not really actually exactly true Splatoon 2 because you can transfer Splatoon 2 save data to another switch system But this is saying you can't even do that And it and it says it says it right and I believe right in this area here And I don't read German so I'm Nintendo life's based in Europe So I'm gonna assume that they're you know that they can translate it just fine Obviously put it on across in the past. You know it demands a lot of your time So this is in fact true It means you won't be able to carry your safe file across to newer systems If you get a switch pro or whenever in the future you won't be able to transfer your save data At least as this is currently stating From your current switch to another one or if you want to switch over to a light because there's people who likes to transfer data back And forth and the cloud save system makes that convenient. You won't be able to do that here Because here's the thing we already know this doesn't support cloud backups It's even noted here in the in the articles as Nintendo has already confirmed the upcoming switch release won't be compatible with cloud Backups either in order to avoid manipulation of time, which I don't know why Nintendo even cares about if people are manipulating time It's been something people have been doing an animal crossing dating all the way back to the original release on GameCube It's been a fundamental thing that people have done with it all these years I don't know why Nintendo cares if we do it or not. It's part of us enjoying the game. It's not like we're cheating It's not like this is a online competitive game. It'd be different if this was like an online competitive game It's a personalized experience or one you now share with friends I don't really know why time manipulation matters to Nintendo so much especially since they at least as far as we're aware Are not putting microtransactions in this version of the game So I can understand time manipulation could affect their ability to earn revenue for certain items But that's not been the case. I'm I don't get again. I don't understand why Nintendo just doesn't do cloud backups for every game I didn't understand it for Splatoon. I mean, I understand how Splatoon is built It makes it harder to do it but Splatoon should have never been built that way same thing with animal crossing So this is a big deal. This is a big if we can't even transfer To another switch system like locally that is a problem That is a big problem and one that Nintendo should not be just they it's okay wash our hands of it. It doesn't matter It does matter. It's important that we can protect our data Just like it's important that people think game preservation and ROMs and stuff should be left alone because you know We want to make sure every game that's ever released is available for everyone for all time This is also one of those things about hey Whatever we create it would be really nice if we could do something about it And that's what sucks is that stuff like this stuff that like decisions like this kind of justifies the existence of Nintendo switch hackers Because you know what Nintendo switch hackers? They don't care They laugh at news like this because you know what they already have homebrew on their system making they can back up all their files locally to a PC like Hackers can do something that is a convenience for consumers that Nintendo is just taking away And I think that's what's really frustrating about this news because animal crossing again It's the biggest thing Nintendo has coming probably for the entire first half of this year There'll be some other games and stuff like that. You know, I believe do maternal supposed to come out Basically the same day I know there's gonna be other games as well The wonderful one-on-one. I believe that just got funded on Kickstarter is gonna be out on switch before before You know the first six before June basically, but Why is Nintendo's biggest release their their big seller? Treating consumers this way and again, I don't think this is gonna affect sales I really don't think there's gonna be a bit over not gonna buy animal crossing now because can't transfer my save data but it does man with a system you can drop and Memory cards that could get corrupted and like all this stuff that you can't back it up You can't transfer I this is concerning and you combine this with the fact that you know They're just making it so you can only you know have one island per switch Yeah, you couldn't even do two or three or and have different groups of people if you want like that. That's just I Hate it. I don't know what else to say I I hate what they have announced or at least at least drip fed out there about this game Even though the actual gameplay is probably gonna be great the actual game itself is going to be good They're going to be fantastic. It might even be the best animal crossing game ever made for all we know But man Like these are some bare bones features and they're just nope. Sorry Sometimes Nintendo is just gonna Nintendo things and usually when people say that it's in a negative context And I hate bringing negativity, but that's what's happening. So you guys want me to think about this news down in the comments below I'm a little frustrated. I'm still excited for the game. Let's just be honest I'm still picking up animal crossing new horizons. It's it's been eight years I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and wait another eight years for one that has you know The ability to transfer save files and stuff like I'm not gonna deprive myself of fun just because of this But it is a disappointing thing to find out Anyways, I'm Nathaniel Rufflejans from Nintendo Prime. I feel it's good to be back folks and I'll catch you in the next video