It's been almost six years since Animal Crossing: New Horizons first released and took the world by storm, offering players around the world an escape just as we were locking ourselves down to prevent the spread of COVID. What a wild, terrible time that was. Now, the game that may genuinely give some of you unsettling lockdown flashbacks is set to return with two major updates.
The first update is the massive, feature-packed 3.0 update. We'll also be getting a Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade that comes with its own unique features specific to Nintendo's latest console. Both of these updates are set to release tomorrow, January 15, but what time? Let's take a look.
While release times have yet to be officially confirmed, previous updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons have followed a specific pattern. As pointed out by Polygon, updates for the game tend to drop at 10am JST on the day of release. That means we're looking at the following times in each timezone, assuming the pattern holds.
As you can see above, time zone trickery means some of you might actually get to play the game a day early depending on where you live, technically...
