9 Unannounced 2018 Video Games You Need To Know About

4. Animal Crossing Switch

This one is a slightly more off-kilter "justification", but Nintendo are nothing if not surprising. To that end, all it took was one eagle-eyed fan to spot some Animal Crossing references in a new Splatoon 2 map to get fans excited. Coming down to the inclusion of various butterflies inside the Shellendorf Institute environment, they can be seen inside a glass case, yet also match up to ones you can catch in Animal Crossing.

It's not much to go on, but also factor in that alongside the apps Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes, came Super Mario Odyssey and a Fire Emblem announcement for something coming later in 2018.

The Switch is yet to get any word on an official Animal Crossing, but with AC: Pocket Camp doing good numbers revenue-wise and the series itself not having a main instalment since New Leaf in 2012, the next Animal Crossing is LONG overdue.