{"id":210,"date":"2021-07-05T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=210"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:24:11","slug":"202104-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/202104-210\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cSwitch\u201d in Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets renamed \u201cLight Switch\u201d in English, but in Japan, a Switch is still a Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Publication date of the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20200430-123068\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>:<\/em>&nbsp;2020-05-01 00:05 <em>(JST)<\/em><br>Translated by.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/arijan-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>Ari Clark<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>The name of the item previously called a \u201cSwitch\u201d, which appears in <em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons,<\/em> has apparently been changed to \u201cLight Switch\u201d, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/random_the_switch_gets_a_name_change_in_animal_crossing_new_horizons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nintendo Life<\/a>. A huge variety of furniture exists in <em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em>, including a wall-mountable Switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s right\u2014it\u2019s not a Nintendo Switch, it\u2019s a plain old light switch. When I checked it out myself, it made a clicking noise and toggled the lever down when I touched it, but it had no effect as far as being able to actually turn the lights on or off. Still, if you\u2019re the kind of player who collects everyday home furnishings, you\u2019ll probably get a kick out of decorating your house with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is with its name. As you probably know if you\u2019ve played it yourself, in <em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em>, you can get a Nintendo Switch console as furniture after starting a game. It\u2019s a simple toy that displays the familiar Nintendo Switch logo and plays a sound effect when touched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s right\u2014the game included both a \u201cNintendo Switch\u201d and a \u201cSwitch\u201d. You can immediately tell these two items apart once you\u2019ve actually decorated your house with them, but when they\u2019re just a couple of lines of text in the furniture list, it\u2019s easy to get them confused. It happened often enough that the \u201cSwitch\u201d item got a name change in response.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s now called Light switch. Might still be confused with Switch Lite haha! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qIqFvkPhO4\">pic.twitter.com\/qIqFvkPhO4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ReLie (@relieru) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/relieru\/status\/1254987412410793984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After the change, the item\u2019s new name was \u201cLight Switch\u201d. As its name implies, it\u2019s&#8230;still just a light switch. Nevertheless, when this seriously perplexing name change went into effect, it set off a flurry of jokes in the Nintendo Life comment section and on Twitter, like \u201cWhat if I get it mixed up with the Switch Lite?\u201d, \u201cWhich switch is which?\u201d, and \u201cI always called it the Dark Switch\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, the name change wasn\u2019t actually carried over to the Japanese version. The \u201cSwitch\u201d is still just a \u201cSwitch\u201d in Japan. In other words, only the English version of the \u201cSwitch\u201d has been changed into a \u201cLight Switch\u201d. Obviously, it caused confusion to have both a \u201cNintendo Switch\u201d and a \u201cSwitch\u201d among the English item names; but in the Japanese version, \u201cNintendo Switch\u201d was spelled out using the English alphabet, while \u201cSwitch\u201d was written phonetically in Japanese kana as \u201c\u30b9\u30a4\u30c3\u30c1\u201d (<em>suicchi<\/em>), which prevented any confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em> was originally developed in Japan. Therefore, since the two item names were so unlikely to be mixed up in Japanese, even when they were listed together, it never became a problem. It might be fun to come up with paradoxical theories about how the \u201c\u30b9\u30a4\u30c3\u30c1<em>\u201d <\/em>item got translated literally as \u201cSwitch\u201d during the localization process, which sowed so much confusion in hindsight.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"531\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-001.jpg 531w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-001-380x222.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-001-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-001-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1075\" height=\"610\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-600x340.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-380x216.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-696x395.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-1068x606.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/202104-210-002-740x420.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Whenever Nintendo updates <em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em>, there are rumors that all sorts of changes are being implemented aside from the ones in the official announcement. Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Ninji\/status\/1253495611300741126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ninji<\/a> investigated the spawn rates for different bugs using their own methods after installing Version 1.2.0. Among other results, they reported a huge drop (about 80-90%) in the spawn rate for Peacock Butterflies. Nobody knows for sure if this report is true, but when you look at this item name change, it seems like all sorts of changes are being implemented aside from just adding more events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cSwitch\u201d in Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets renamed \u201cLight Switch\u201d in English, but in Japan, a Switch is still a Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,17,33],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-japan-related-news","tag-nintendo"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The \u201cSwitch\u201d in Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets renamed \u201cLight Switch\u201d in English, but in Japan, a Switch is still a Switch - 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