Switch 2 lets you easily move your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island

Nintendo has confirmed Animal Crossing: New Horizon gamers will have the ability to switch their island save knowledge from the unique Swap to the all-new Swap 2, with out having to obtain an extra app or use a cloud save.

This helpful little nugget comes from Nintendo Swap 2 director Takuhiro Dohta.

„While you do the system switch, every part like save knowledge will stay on the Nintendo Swap and as soon as it strikes to the Nintendo Swap 2 as effectively,“ Dohta advised Polygon, earlier than including:

„However the [Animal Crossing] island can be an precise transfer. So it would go away Nintendo Swap and transfer over to Nintendo Swap 2.“

These days, if gamers wish to switch their island to a special Swap console, they’ve two choices. The primary is to obtain the Island Switch Device, which is a Nintendo Swap app which is able to facilitate each the switch of full New Horizons‘ save recordsdata or particular person participant accounts from the sport.

The second means is Nintendo’s cloud saving and island restoration possibility, which permits gamers to add their island and save knowledge to the web.

So, whereas each present Swap choices are completely do-able, it seems like transferring an island to Swap 2 goes to be much more simple.

Elsewhere in Nintendo information, earlier this week the corporate confirmed Swap 2 recreation cartridges will style so horrible it would be best to spit them again out and that eShop music will not be returning for the upcoming console.

The Nintendo Swap 2 is launching Thursday fifth June, with a retail value of £395.99 for the console, or £429.99 must you go for the Swap 2 and Mario Kart World bundle.

For extra, our Tom has already been hands-on with Nintendo’s upcoming console. You may learn his Swap 2 impressions right here.