Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Features
📌 The Switch 2 Edition features enhanced resolution graphics for improved visual quality.
🖱️ Players can utilize Joycon 2 mouse controls for more intuitive redecorating, custom design creation, and bulletin board messages.
📢 A new item, the megaphone, allows players to use the Switch 2 microphone to call out to island residents.
👥 Online multiplayer expands from 8 to 12 players when all participants own the Switch 2 Edition, with added Game Chat functionality and optional USB camera support to show player faces in-game.

Free Software Update for All Players (Launching January 15th)
🏨 A new resort hotel facility opens on the pier, run by K.K. Slider's family, requiring players to decorate guest rooms based on various themes.
🎫 Decorating rooms earns hotel tickets, redeemable at Graham’s souvenir shop for hotel-themed and exclusive rare items, including guest outfits.
🛠️ Players can increase island brand recognition by crafting specific DIY island goods requested by Tom Nook in exchange for hotel tickets.
📦 Home storage capacity is significantly increased, upgrading from 5,000 items to a maximum of 9,000 items, and now allows storage for trees, shrubs, and flowers.

New Services and Dream Worlds
🧹 Reeti starts a cleanup service to tidy up designated areas of the island, including collecting flowers or custom designs, with collected items safely stored.
😴 Entering deep sleep transports players to Slumber Island, a new dream world where players can decorate freely using existing items, adjust terrain (cliffs, rivers), time of day, and weather.
🏡 Each player can build up to three Slumber Islands in small, medium, or large sizes, and players can visit and collaborate on friends' Slumber Islands.

Collaboration and Amiibo Content
🎁 Increasing hotel brand recognition unlocks Nintendo collaboration items in the souvenir shop, including retro toys and classic game systems, allowing gameplay of select classic games with an active Nintendo Switch Online membership.
🧱 Lego items (furniture and fashion) will become available via Nook Shopping in various colors.
🔱 Tapping compatible Legend of Zelda series amiibo unlocks items like the Zonai authentication crest and Triforce-inspired furniture/fashion.
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 New characters Tulin and Minou can visit and move to the island, and tapping Splatoon series amiibo allows Cece or VJ to visit, alongside available Splatoon collaboration items.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition launches January 15th, with an upgrade pack available for existing ACNH owners.
➡️ The free update is mandatory for all players on the same date (January 15th) and introduces major features like the Hotel Resort and Slumber Islands.
➡️ Players gain significant quality-of-life improvements, including storage expansion up to 9,000 items and a new cleanup service.
➡️ Amiibo usage is enhanced, particularly for Zelda and Splatoon series, unlocking unique visitors and themed items.

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