{"id":14419,"date":"2018-09-13T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=14419"},"modified":"2018-09-13T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T02:33:05","slug":"new-mainline-animalcrossing-game-coming-to-nintendoswitch-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/09\/new-mainline-animalcrossing-game-coming-to-nintendoswitch-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"New mainline Animal Crossing game coming to Nintendo Switch in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been five years since the release of <em>Animal Crossing: New Leaf<\/em> for the Nintendo 3DS and more than a year since the launch of the Nintendo Switch. Since then fans have been clamouring for a new <strong>Animal Crossing<\/strong> game for the Switch. Nintendo gave us a mobile spinoff title in Pocket Camp earlier in the year, but there hadn&#8217;t been a peep of anything in development for the Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Today during the Nintendo Direct presentation Nintendo finally confirmed the development of a new mainline <em>Animal Crossing<\/em> game coming to the Nintendo Switch next year. No firm date has been set with just 2019 as the release date.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited for this new game? What features do you want in a new full <em>Animal Crossing<\/em> game? Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/03\/animal-crossing-on-switch-what-wed-like-to-see\/\">my wishlist<\/a> from a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>In other Animal Crossing news, Isabelle has been officially added as a fighter for the upcoming <em>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/em> game, which arrives in stores in December. She will join the Villager as a playable character.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CRuHg1dv8MI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=2098&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been five years since the release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS and more than a year since the launch of the Nintendo Switch. Since then fans have been clamouring for a new Animal Crossing game for the Switch. Nintendo gave us a mobile spinoff title in Pocket Camp earlier in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1530],"tags":[49,1386,1789,2208],"class_list":["post-14419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-switch","tag-animal-crossing","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-super-smash-bros-ultimate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/animal_crossing_switch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-3Kz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16071,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2019\/06\/e3-animal-crossing-new-horizons-coming-march-20-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":14419,"position":0},"title":"E3: Animal Crossing: New Horizons coming March 20, 2020","date":"June 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo finally lifted the veil on the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch entry of the Animal Crossing series. 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