At the latest Nintendo Direct event, Nintendo confirmed that its hit gameAnimal Crossing: New Horizonswould be getting a big update in November. Nintendo didn’t have much to share in the way of details at the time, teasing that the fan favorite NPC Brewster and his Roost cafe would be making their debut inAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsas part of the update, but not revealing much else. Nintendo promised that more information would come in a specialAnimal Crossing: New Horizons-focused Nintendo Direct in October, and now we know when exactly that Nintendo Direct will air.
Nintendo has confirmed that theAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsDirect will air on Friday, October 15 at 7am PT. The Direct will have about 20 minutes of information to share about theAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsNovember update, which certainly suggests that fans have more than justBrewster and his cafeto look forward to once it drops. However, Nintendo didn’t provide any further clues about what fans can expect from the update.
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Since its launch last year, Nintendo has released content updates forAnimal Crossing: New Horizonson a regular basis. These content updates have greatly expanded what players can do in the game. For example,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsadded swimming and divingin one content update, and in another, it gave players the ability to fully explore “dream” versions of other players' islands.
Some of theAnimal Crossing: New Horizonscontent updateshave been smaller than others, simply adding new seasonal furniture as opposed to brand new gameplay mechanics. The exact scope of the bigAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsNovember update remains to be seen, but since it’s getting its very own 20 minute Nintendo Direct presentation, one has to imagine that it will be on the larger side of things.
All of theAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsupdates have been free since launch, but one has to wonder if Nintendo will ever release paidAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsDLC. Paid DLC would presumably be able to be a bit more extravagant and could potentially tack on a lot more value to the base game, as opposed to the free content updates where Nintendo may not have quite the same motivation to really go all out. However, no plans for paidAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsDLC have been announced at the time of this writing.
Fans will learn all about thebigAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsNovember updatecome October 15 at 7am PT when theAnimal CrossingNintendo Direct airs. Until then, they can speculate about what it will entail beyond the long-awaited debut of Brewster and his cafe.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
