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Animal Crossing: New Horizons was a glimpse at Nintendo’s online future

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75% Informative

Nintendo has not released a major update to Animal Crossing : New Horizons since the Happy Home Paradise DLC in 2021 .

Some Animal Crossing fans welcome the possibility of adapting the mainline games to a live-service model.

A 2025 survey found that roughly 30 percent of all “ AAA ” developers are working on a live service game.

The next mainline Animal Crossing game needs to be done in a way that feels respectful to players' time, money, and attention.

Even beloved live-service games are regularly criticized by fans for requiring too much time to level up a battle pass or for poorly designed events.

Nintendo ended up re-leasing Pocket Camp as a standalone game free of microtransactions.

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66

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66

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semi-formal

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English

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42

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