#7Tech: What's the deal with the red hot game 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons?'

well there's a game out there by Nintendo right now that's easy people's anxiety about staying at home it's called Animal Crossing New Horizons our tech expert Phil Jana is here to tell us more I know you're a huge fan of this I've seen your Facebook posts so why

is this game so big right now what is it addicting I would assume I mean the thing is we're stuck at home and this allows me to do all those things I can't really do right I can run around and run around the neighborhood so it's okay I

think that's why it's hot so we're living vicariously through our Animal Crossing people yeah I mean the thing is I've lost control over the rest of the world right I mean I can't go here I can't do that but the fact is I can go visit my friends

I can go fishing I can go catch bugs I you know I can have fun and sit around and build a little neighborhood while I'm at it sounds like a lot of people know what we're talking about we're seeing some of the the gaming here in our screens

for folks who have no idea what we're talking about what is the purpose of this game is it or is there no purpose is it just kind of building your own little world I think that's it right so the what they get you to do is you move

to a deserted island and you begin to populate it you invite people over you start to build houses you build city hall you end up with a clothing store I mean it's just all the stuff that you do and in fact you know they ran a big holiday

so that's kind of fun the second you started talking to me about this today I thought my kids are gonna want this and then they're gonna want money to buy coins and stuff like that but it's not like that it's just either a game or a download and

then after that yeah that's the great thing right is that it's just pay once and then you're done so you got to buy the game and then once you got the game you're good that is a big perk for parents yeah okay it's so popular right now that

the game isn't necessarily you know you can't really you can fight you can still find the game and the download it's the Nintendo switch yeah so they actually you can't find anywhere right now the gadget that it plays on all the stores are sold out of that very

hard to find and so the after everybody started quarantine II that's when they started selling out or I think that's what it is I mean you know the thing it's been popular it's super popular and of course the game itself is you know one of those popular games

ever launched certainly on the switch but the fact is then getting the actual gadget became hard because every wanted to play okay so basically you can download the game onto your Nintendo switch you said that's $60 yes but if you wanted to play it on your phone it's

there aren't as many options I guess well that's an older version of the game in this so I think that's why that's not so hot at at the moment but there is a game that you know if you can't get a switch then there is a pocket camp

version that you can play on your phone and you said if any any switch that you see online right now you say a lot of scalpers are out there oh that's exactly charging a lot basically a $300 device is going for $500 or more I mean up to

a thousand bucks I asked my wife about this and she did a quick ebay skin and she found one for almost a thousand dollars Wow yeah switches are not that much no okay so how are you doing in Animal Crossing right now you're like all over the place

here's the deal I'm having fun with it but my wife is the serious player and even more so I've visited some friends islands that are awesome right they've spent a bunch of time upgrading your islands they're beautiful and it's for all ages big kids I think is I

think you could go down as small you have to be able to read I think that's the only thing and maybe you could get away with not doing that because the characters are so emotive so I it's a lot of fun in our house everyone in the house

has an account and plays the game and I am NOT a gamer so you never get bored you could I mean you could say I'm tired of fishing I think I'll go hunt bugs the thing one of the cool things about it is that it's open 24 hours

so it's like a little island that's open 24 hours so you know I'm having trouble sleeping some night I can get up and go for a walk there you go works for your insomnia hold onto that switch it's a hot item right now be careful with that I'm

worried about being this close to you quite frankly we've got one at home I don't know if the kids are planar or not Phil thanks so much always a pleasure seeing you man thanks for having me all right let's head over to Spartanburg studios right now and get

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