If you save enough Nook Miles in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you can buy a ticket to tour a seemingly-randomized deserted island that’s filled with resources. The islands shown in the direct featured a variety of seasons, and we’re hoping this means you can visit islands that exist in different seasons from your own. It wouldn’t be a perfect replacement for time-traveling to catch specific bugs, but it’d be helpful for those of us who don’t want to test any potential new issues that could come with changing the clock. Time-traveling previously meant risking cockroach infestations, overgrown weeds, and animals departing the town, but we don’t know how or if any of that will change with New Horizons.
The Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct revealed plenty of other great information too. You can read about all the new details in our wrap up and see what's in store for the first 30 minutes of New Horizons with our hands-on preview. Visit the Animal Crossing: New Horizons wiki for even more on new features, confirmed characters, and other details about the upcoming game. Miranda Sanchez is an executive editor at IGN. She hopes Roscoe and Goldie settle on her island sooner than later. You can chat with her about video games and anime on Twitter.