How to get Nintendo consoles in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

As part of the Animal Crossing: New Horizons big 3.0 update, you can nab cute retro Nintendo consoles (and the Nintendo Switch 2) to decorate with. Some of these consoles are even playable, if you have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.

The requirements to unlock these neat gadgets can be tricky, so we've detailed how to unlock the 3.0 Nintendo items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons below, along with the catalog of what's available to buy.

How to unlock the Nintendo consoles in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

After working at the hotel resort, Gran will upgrade her shop, expanding her wares. Her final shop upgrade adds a new tab of items, labeled "special," which includes the array of fun Nintendo goodies.

Admittedly, we don't know the exact requirements that triggered Gran's shop to hit its final upgrade, but here's what we did:

• The "main story" of the resort hotel completed, including the creation of the VIP room
• One additional VIP room decorated
• 50 DIY requests turned in on the pier
• A little over 5,000 tickets earned in total

After doing all this, Gran's shop was upgraded the next day. In our playthrough, we did the 50 requests first, and then did the additional VIP room, so you may need fewer DIY turn-ins than we did. We recommend making the additional VIP room first, and then turning in the DIYs, going to the next day and checking in with Gran sporadically. This would require time travel. You can also check how many DIY requests you've turned in by checking your Nook Miles achievements.

If you don't want to time travel, you can certainly blast out those 50 DIYs in one day, but heed our warning: you might be overshooting the actual requirement quite a bit.

Which Nintendo consoles are available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Gran offers quite a few fun items, though only a few of them are playable items. The following consoles can be played with to play these games, only if you have Nintendo Switch Online:

• Famicom: Clu Clu Land
• NES: Ice Climber
• Famicom Disk System: Ice Hockey
• Game Boy: Dr. Mario
• Super Famicom: Panel de Pon
• Super NES (NTSC version): F-Zero
• Super NES (PAL version): F-Zero

Note that you only need an NSO subscription to play these games. You can still buy and decorate your house with these items, even if you don't have a subscription.

As with other orderable items, you can only order five items from the catalog per day, so make sure you choose wisely (or you'll need to time travel, if you're impatient.)

You can see a full list of the retro Nintendo items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, along with their prices, below.

Item

Cost

Appearance

Ultra Hand	200 tickets
Ultra Machine	200 tickets
Love Tester	200 tickets
Nintendo Switch 2	222 tickets
Famicom	500 tickets
NES	500 tickets
Famicom Disk System	500 tickets
Game Boy	500 tickets
Super Famicom	500 tickets
Super NES (NTSC version)	500 tickets
Super NES (PAL version)	500 tickets