In una recente intervista,Tezuka ed Eguchi hanno rivelato quanto sotto:
in single player mode
many new aspects to be discovered eg:
- new characters
- new furniture
- buildings have changed
- museum has a second floor with a different kind of exhibition. first floor has a coffee shop where K.K. Slider plays
- Tom Nook's department store is much bigger and has a beauty salon where you can customise your hair
online multiplayer mode
- visitors will come to the host’s town, so the session will take place in the time zone of the host
- the host can hide several presents and three visitors can come into that town and start a scavenger hunt, there are more new features like this
- no plans for downloadable content at the moment