Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Nintendo Direct announced for Oct. 15

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct livestream, promised throughout Sept. 23’s Nintendo Direct, will air on Friday, Oct. 15 at 10 a.m. EDT, Nintendo introduced on Wednesday.

A tweet from the official Animal Crossing Twitter account mentioned the present will final about 20 minutes, and can focus on “the content material coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons in November.”

The Nintendo Direct two weeks in the past teased the possible return of avian barista Brewster and his cafe, The Roost. Animal Crossing New Horizons gamers have turn out to be considerably impatient with the dearth of latest content material, as March 2021 was the final time the sport received a considerable post-launch replace.

Since then, new content material has come within the type of vacation celebrations, limited-time objects in Nook Buying, and basic upkeep. In July, Nintendo acknowledged the dearth of content material and promised extra could be on the way in which later this yr.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was initially launched on Nintendo Swap in March 2020. Nintendo has since bought greater than 33 million copies of the sport, making New Horizons probably the most profitable Animal Crossing sport thus far. Animal Crossing: New Horizons positively has fewer gamers lately than it did at launch, however that’s to be anticipated. Nonetheless, the sport has been a significant boon for Nintendo, which bought virtually 30 million Nintendo Swap consoles over the previous yr. It even helped energy a Nintendo Swap scarcity throughout the starting of the COVID-19 pandemic.