

In reality, all items will remain - it’s just the archipelago that becomes inaccessible.Īnimal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise launches on November 5. That answer is a relief, as players were immediately worried that items gained through the mode would become inaccessible if they unsubscribed. “Players can also still continue to access certain things they have unlocked in Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise on their main island, including adding counters and partition walls, as well as adding ambient lighting and soundscapes, even if their access to Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise is suspended.”

“Players can keep all items they’ve acquired using the DLC during their membership to use on the main island,” Nintendo of America says in a statement sent to Digital Trends. The most important detail is that items earned through the mode will still be usable in New Horizons even without a membership. That said, a small overseas delay is always possible.Īnimal Crossing: New Horizons launches worldwide in less than two months from now on March 20th! Check out our release date countdown here, or pre-order the game here. For more information on this restriction, read our article on the topic here.įinally, we must note that the announced date is technically only for Japan at this time, but we fully expect that pre-purchases will go live on the same date elsewhere in the world as time is running out anyway. The start date of digital download orders also came with a stern warning about the limitations of only having one single island per Nintendo Switch system, regardless of the number of copies you buy. This means you can download the full game on your Nintendo Switch in advance so when the game launches on March 20th, your console will only have to download a small unlock key to begin playing! Thankfully, we’ve finally got an official date for when digital pre-purchases will begin on the Nintendo eShop for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, or at least in Japan.Īccording to Nintendo’s Japanese post alongside the special edition system announced today, both digital pre-purchases and physical pre-orders in Japan will start on February 8th!Īnd not only will pre-purchases begin on February 8th, but pre-loading for New Horizons will start too.

And in North America and Europe, there hasn’t been any eShop pages at all for the game! We’ve had plenty of pre-orders opportunities come up for physical copies of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in practically every region of the world, but what if you’re more into having a digital download version?Īnimal Crossing: New Horizons has had a page listing up on the European Nintendo eShop as far back as late December, yet pre-orders still haven’t been available on the eShop despite that.
