"I never felt done with my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Despite playing every day for two years, and racking up 1,700 hours of playtime, I somehow never finished decorating. I had plenty of ideas for my island, sure, but actually implementing them was another story: The decorating and terraforming systems that helped make New Horizons a huge success are also slow, manual, and cumbersome, and my patience for decorating and redecorating had finally worn thin."
"Fast-forward a few years, and a very much unexpected update is coming to finally fix some of those pain points. Update 3.0 is launching on January 15th, 2026, alongside the Switch 2 Edition of New Horizons. And while the paid Switch 2 upgrade has some nice-to-haves (like Joy-Con 2 mouse controls for indoor decorating), it's the free update that brings all the key new features."
Players often felt unable to finish Animal Crossing: New Horizons islands despite extensive playtime, citing decorating and terraforming systems as slow, manual, and cumbersome. Update 3.0 launches January 15, 2026, and the update is free; it aims to address key pain points with quality-of-life improvements to decorating and terraforming. A Switch 2 Edition of New Horizons will release alongside the update and includes a paid upgrade with features like Joy-Con 2 mouse controls for indoor decorating. A virtual preview was limited: the Switch 2 version and new free content were not yet played locally, and remote presentation made visual and performance assessment difficult.
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