A disturbing thing I found about Nook's Cranny in this game

[BigBadButterfree]

*laughs in Pokemon*

 

[Baroque]

Nook’s Cranny is basically useless in ’late game’ playing, honestly. It rarely has anything interesting, especially not that one spot for ‘special’ items that just keep cycling the same two summer items day in and day out, as was mentioned they don’t have all the color variations, it’s pretty dang cramped and, worst of all, I just find Timmy and Tommy annoying all around. Makes me miss Reese & Cyrus pretty damn fierce.

I find myself legitimately just dumping whatever I wanna sell into the drop-off box in front of their store because I don’t want to interact with them at all. I know the drop-off box has a tax but I don’t care, I just don’t want to interact with those two annoying kids.

 

[Altarium]

...yeah, I have the rattan set with the green variant which is absolutely hideous imo so I had to trade for the decent colors

 

[LambdaDelta]

they're never gonna fix it, as it's an intended feature

yeah it sucks, but past games frankly had it far worse, imo. where you had to trade to even be able to obtain items

here, you can get everything. just some colors might not be to your liking

 

[ForgottenT]

On one hand it makes each island more unique, and promotes community, on the other hand it's a frustrating attempt to sell their crap online disservice.
At least you can still get the other variations through shaking trees for items.

 

[sigh]

That's a good question: It might be worth doing a survey about this. For instance, I find that my shop has Antique Furniture in Light Brown and Instruments in White. My airport is Orange - so if there are other players with trends like that, it would be neat to know.

weird, i have an orange airport and my antique furniture sold is natural (aka light brown). i've definitely seen some white instruments too, like the violin, but i got the "shocking pink" electric bass in my shop before too. hmm

 

[JSS]

They should at least let us customize them eventually through Cyrus or something. While I enjoy the slow process of catalog completion, I want to have a way to get a specific color I want without relying on other players for every single one of these reorderable items.

 

[niko@kamogawa]

I haven't seen this mentioned in guides or anything, but after checking Nook's Cranny since day one, I just figured this out:

For whatever reason, the shop of every island has a severe limit to what furniture variants it will ever hold. I believe it can only hold 1 variant of every item - maybe 2 if you're really lucky. So if you see a TV in one color in your island shop, it might as well be the only color of that TV size/type that your shop will ever have available - And you will never see the other color variants get sold there.

This is the probably the worst aspect I have about this game. In New Leaf, it was possible to get every single shop-sold piece of furniture through one shop - There was nothing in the Emporium that was exclusive to your island. In New Horizons, the shops are totally crippled: I have less than a third of all available items and variants in the game, yet I get nothing but all duplicates in my shop day after day.

Please: I know that trading is part of the game. But this is an extremely artificial way of imposing people to trade, especially against people like me who don't want to trade for furniture. I really, really hope they fix this somehow, because I bet it is part of the reason people complain about the lack of furniture in this game.

Even without a guide, I already noticed this. Then again, Nintendo really wanted to push for online trading. I don't see them fixing this in the future.

My tip is to trade locally with friends.

 

[DragonLatios]

Dose Wisp Drop Colors items at you do not have time to time?

 

[HappyTails]

They do this same thing with the items you order with Nook Miles (lighthouse, drink machines, etc). Can't customize them either.

Sneaky way to force people onto their Nintendo Online service.
I get that $20 a year isn't a lot, but it's hard to see the price tag of something you are basically forced to get in order to get the colors you want that should have already been available to you.

 

[Red Cat]

Dose Wisp Drop Colors items at you do not have time to time?

Yes, although like with the balloons, tree furniture, Redd, and villager gifts, I don't think it's possible to get anything really expensive. So for those items, you're stuck with trading.

I think making it difficult / impossible to acquire different color furniture is just a really lazy attempt to sell NSO. I can easily afford NSO, but refuse to buy it because the online experience is really shallow especially for ACNH. Trading is not a multiplayer experience. There is a lot of potential to improve ACNH online play and make people want to get NSO for that, but it's like Nintendo said "That's too much effort. Let's just color lock stuff and make people trade for things instead."

 

[CrestFallen]

I know this isn’t AC exclusive, considering version exclusive Pokémon and probably other stuff I don’t know about. It’s Nintendo’s way of forcing trade and interactions. The difference between new horizons and Pokémon though it new horizons has it waaaaaaaaaay worse. I 100% agree it crippled the entire store when you can only get one color scheme.

fun fact: this also applies to entire sets. Every single piece of ‘Antique’ furniture that is in my store is color locked black. It’s a nightmare and I absolutely hate it

 

[Hilbunny]

Oh no... are you serious....
No bueno

 

[nightglow]

Does anyone know if a similar thing happens with Gulliver or Kicks items on color varients?

 

[Mikaiah]

I'm not positive about this, but I believe that every year, your nooks cranny can cycle through different furniture variants.
I haven't been paying attention as I TTed, but maybe someone else can confirm or deny this.

But basically the reason I think this is that I have mostly the Blue cute set, but when I TTed to next year, I started getting only white colors.

 

[Starboard]

I think AC is the kind of game that attracts lots of people who are non-gamers and just want to play a simple relaxing game on their own little island that they can decorate. Decorating is a huuuge aspect of the game and I think it's unfair that these people are now having to miss out on most of the furniture variations unless they want to pay more money than they already did, learn how a community works and trade like crazy. It was never like that before.

I think there are enough things you can only do with a subscription and having furniture shouldn't be one of them, at least not to this extent.

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I'm not positive about this, but I believe that every year, your nooks cranny can cycle through different furniture variants.
I haven't been paying attention as I TTed, but maybe someone else can confirm or deny this.

But basically the reason I think this is that I have mostly the Blue cute set, but when I TTed to next year, I started getting only white colors.

That's actually really interesting! I hope someone can confirm it too.