How To Fix Animal Crossing Slow Loading Issue | Nintendo Switch
Is your Animal Crossing New Horizons game too slow when loading? If it takes forever for your game to load, there’s no need to worry about it. In most instances, the game is just abnormally slow to load by design. However, if you think that the game’s loading time is way too slow, you can read this guide to know what do do.
Causes of Animal Crossing slow loading issue
There are a number of possible factors that can cause Animal Crossing New Horizons slow loading issue.
Animal Crossing slow loading time is not a glitch.
Animal Crossing New Horizons was released on March 2020 and even then, it’s been known to suffer from loading issue. I’ve been personally playing this game for months now and i admit, the game’s loading time is longer compared to other similar Switch or non-Switch games.
By longer i mean that the loading time varies from time to time. Sometimes, visiting a friend’s island takes longer than 2 minutes for me while at other times, it’s only under a minute.
The same is true for the loading of the main game. There are times though that this can take up to 5 minutes. Some gamers have reported that their game took even longer time to load the game (up to about 15 minutes). While this is not supposed to happen, longer loading times are influenced by a number of factors such as your internet connection, the condition of your game card, the software environment of your Switch, or the condition of the hardware.
Slow internet connection.
Although you can play ACNH even on most decent internet connection speed, the loading time can suffer significantly if your connection is very slow or if it keeps dropping off. Many gamers who rely on unreliable mobile data connection will find out that their loading times are longer compared to when they use a faster, reliable wifi connection.
Internal storage device issue.
For some, Animal Crossing loading time can be extremely slow especially if the console’s internal storage device is damaged or corrupted. When there’s a problem with the internet storage device, other games may also suffer from the same slow loading issue, or may frequently crash.
Game card issue.
If you have the physical copy of Animal Crossing New Horizons, it’s also possible that the loading issue you’re having may be card-related. Other indications of a game card problem includes random crashing and errors about the game in question.
Console-specific issue.
If other games and not just Animal Crossing have slow loading time as well, it’s possible that it’s a console problem. You may need to perform a factory reset to check if that’s the case.
How to fix Animal Crossing slow loading issue
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