{"id":539557,"date":"2025-10-31T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:46:14","slug":"psa-dont-expect-animal-crossing-new-horizons-nintendo-switch-2-edition-to-include-the-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539557\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Don’t Expect Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition To Include The DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Animal<\/a>Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n

Nintendo is releasing its Switch 2 Edition of Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> early next year, and it includes new Switch 2 enhancements. However, one thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the paid DLC Happy Home Paradise<\/a>, which was originally released for the Switch version in 2021.<\/p>\n

If you are wondering about this, according to the official physical box art for the Switch 2 release, Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition<\/a> simply includes the original game and the upgrade pack:<\/p>\n

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“Includes the Nintendo Switch game and the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrade pack. Upgrade pack also available separately.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"Animal<\/a>Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n

Based on this description, what you’re getting here with the paid Switch 2 upgrade is the base game and the Switch 2 upgrade pack \u2013 including new content, features and enhancements. And if you already own the original Switch version of New Horizons, you can get the Switch 2 upgrade as a standalone purchase digitally.<\/p>\n

So, it seems, if you want to play the Happy Home Paradise DLC (and don’t already own it), you’ll still apparently need to fork out $24.99<\/strong> (or your regional equivalent), or you can access it with an active Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership.<\/p>\n

If you’ve kept tabs on Nintendo’s previous Switch 2 Editions, such as Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>, you’ll likely already be aware the DLC also wasn’t included<\/a>, and remained “a separate purchase”. The box art had the same description as the one above as well.<\/p>\n

As some Animal Crossing experts have noted, the 3.0 update launching alongside the Switch 2 Edition of New Horizons also appears to have some overlap with the existing Happy Home Paradise DLC. We even acknowledged this in our own guide here on Nintendo Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s still early days, and the Switch 2 Edition of Animal Crossing: New Horizons isn’t out until 15th January 2026<\/strong>, so if there are any changes or adjustments about what’s included, or Nintendo provides an official update, we’ll let you know.<\/p>\n

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\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Nintendo is releasing its Switch 2 Edition of Animal Crossing: New Horizons early next year, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23552,19252,270,2733,30813,53,16,15,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-539557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-animal-crossing","9":"tag-dlc","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-online","12":"tag-psa","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-upcoming-releases"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115468146813473523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539557","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=539557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}