{"id":537697,"date":"2025-10-30T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537697\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:38:10","slug":"surprise-animal-crossing-new-horizons-nintendo-switch-2-edition-arrives-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537697\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Animal Crossing: New Horizons &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Arrives Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-nintendo-switch-2-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition<\/a> will be arriving alongside a new free Ver. 3.0 update on <strong>15th January<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Switch 2 Edition includes all sorts of new features to make the most of the new console. There&#8217;s Mouse Mode integration for improved home layout and clothing design, a Microphone item so you can call out your Villagers&#8217; names, improved visuals and frame rate, Camera and GameChat opportunities and more.<\/p>\n<p>Those already with the Switch 1 version (and that means&#8230; everyone) will be able to upgrade to the Switch 2 Edition by purchasing an Upgrade Pack.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some snaps so you can see it in action:<\/p>\n<p>Images: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>The free update, meanwhile, is an especially beefy one. Ver. 3.0 packs in a new resort hotel run by Kapp&#8217;n and his family for you to decorate as you please, expanded home storage (5,000 items beefed up to 9,000!), Sonny Resetti arrives to provide a clean-up service, a dream &#8216;Slumber Island&#8217; for you to start afresh and edit with your friends, additional amiibo functionality, and collaborations with retro Nintendo, LEGO, <strong>Zelda<\/strong> and <strong>Splatoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phew&#8230; we need a breather after that!<\/p>\n<p>Images: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>We still have a little while to wait before both the update and Switch 2 Edition officially wash up on our shores, but gosh, are we excited!<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of all this Animal Crossing news? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has announced that Animal Crossing: New Horizons &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will be arriving alongside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23552,12,128,270,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-537697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-animal-crossing","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nintendo","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}