The file size is 6.2GB
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsfeels a little more real today now that pre-loading has gone live.
If you pre-purchase (or use a voucher) to buyAnimal Crossingon theNintendo Switch eShop, you can download the game ahead of time–and then immediately regret that decision when you realize the logo is going to torment you every time you look at your home menu leading up to August 03, 2025.
Beyond the game itself, Nintendo is also throwing in a seven-day Nintendo Switch Online trial code.
I got my code via email shortly after buyingNew Horizons, and here’s the caveat: the trial can’t be redeemed until August 03, 2025, at 9:00 pm Pacific, and even then, it can’t be used by “a Nintendo Account with an active Individual Membership or Family Membership,” according to Nintendo.
I know some of you are super attached to your physical games (for good reason!), but I had to go digital on this one. There was no second-guessing. If I went with a retail copy,Animal Crossing: New Horizonswould never leave my Switch’s cartridge slot. TheZelda: Breath of the Wildproblem, as I call it.
Nintendo’s fuzziness oversave data transfers and backupsis frustrating – there’s no denying it – but I’m otherwise all the way in forNew Horizons. We’re only six weeks away from our island excursion.
