Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct Set for October 15 - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 October 2021 / 1,332 Views

Nintendo announced the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct will take place on Friday, October 15 at 7:00 am PT / 10:00 am ET / 3:00 pm UK. You can watch it on YouTube.

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct will be around 20 minutes long and feature information on content coming to the game.

[Announcement]
The #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons Direct will air on Oct. 15 at 7am PT! Tune in for roughly 20 minutes of information about the content coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons in November. #ACNH pic.twitter.com/gc7rfFoxpk
— Isabelle (@animalcrossing) October 6, 2021

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3 Comments

G2ThaUNiT (on 06 October 2021)

Kinda goes to show just how huge Nintendo is right now when they can dedicate an entire direct on a single game just for updates and there will be hundreds of thousands of people that'll tune in on the livestream. I was watching the Sora reveal yesterday live on YouTube, and at one point there was over 600,000 people viewing it lol for just a character reveal on a nearly 3 year old game!

I still remember vividly just 5 years ago how everyone was claiming Nintendo should dip on the console business and go full third-party in the likes of Sega. How the turntables......

Dulfite G2ThaUNiT (on 06 October 2021)

And that's just one stream. Combine that with all the people doing live reaction videos and that being the primary way many saw the direct and there were millions watching live.

Chazore (on 06 October 2021)

I haven't really been playing much of the game since Jan. I kinda gave up on hopes of game getting the same treatment Ninty gives Smash tbh.

I imagine we'll get the coffee shop and that's somehow going to make up for the content drought and missing QoL improvements.

I hate being sour about this, because I honestly love the game and played it non stop last year, as well as New Leaf for years on end, but I really dislike how little attention the game itself gets from Nintendo, especially compared to other IP's that get plenty of addons/QoL improvements, and I'm sitting here waiting for something decent to land for AC.

Please don't let this direct be small shit like "challenge your friends with this funk tiny game mode". I want new tiles, new objects, QoL improvements, more unique islands to explore (since procedurally generated ones all look near the same), more ways to make bells etc.