Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans have high hopes for today’s Nintendo Direct after a surprise maintenance on the game earlier today.
As revealed by NinStatusBot on Twitter (a bot that shares updates on Nintendo’s servers), Animal Crossing: New Horizons received maintenance on “certain network services” just before 1am UTC until 2am UTC today. today. While this is likely just routine for the game and for Nintendo, the fact that it happened on the same day as a Nintendo Direct has fans excited that some sort of announcement could take place later in the day.
In case you missed it, Nintendo is hosting a Nintendo Direct today (February 8) at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST / 10:00 PM GMT. While it didn’t reveal exactly which games will be featured during the presentation, Nintendo promised 40 minutes of information “primarily focused on Nintendo Switch games coming out in the first half of 2023.” You can find out exactly how to watch February’s Nintendo Direct with our handy guide.
While we all want more reasons to revisit our islands, it’s important to remember Nintendo said in 2021 that their massive 2.0 update was their “last free major content update.” To be fair, it introduced a number of fan-requested features, such as the return of Brewster and The Roost, Kapp’n and his boat rides, and a host of other exciting new additions.
Regarding what Nintendo said, you can differentiate this in a number of ways. Either it means we won’t get any more ‘major’ updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so we might still get small updates here and there, it could also mean we won’t get any more content” free”. , so the next batch of DLC will be paid, or it could just mean we never get anything new for the game again, but let’s just assume that’s not an option.
It’s not just Animal Crossing fans pinning their hopes on tonight’s Nintendo Direct. As always, fans of Hollow Knight: Silksong are desperate for the game to be mentioned during today’s showcase, even though there’s absolutely no evidence to back it up. Zelda fans were also excited about news of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which is pretty much a no-brainer at this point considering the game will be released in a few months on May 12.