Life can be tough south of the equator. Around 800 million fellow homo-sapiens live below the belt. That’s a lot of people by any measure, but my Southern Hemisphere brothers and sisters still only make up around 10% of the global population. Chances are that most of you reading this right now are comfortably seated somewhere up north. And some of you might even possess north-south bias whether you’re consciously aware of it or not.

大号 IFE可以是赤道以南强硬。 大约有8亿同胞生活在该带之下。 无论如何，这是很多人，但是我的南半球兄弟姐妹仍然只占全球人口的10％左右。 现在大多数阅读此书的人很可能坐在北方的某个地方。 不论您是否意识到，您中的某些人甚至可能拥有南北偏见 。

It is very tempting to launch into a broad discussion on the various impacts of this bias (right down to how maps have historically been drawn), but I have an even more important focus right now: Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

关于这种偏见的各种影响(一直到历史上的地图绘制方式)进行广泛讨论是非常诱人的，但是我现在有一个更重要的重点：《 动物穿越：新视野》 。

Yes, I have to acknowledge that Animal Crossing: New Horizons does cater for the Southern Hemisphere in one of its most important aspects: seasons. When you create an island at the beginning of the game, you can specify whether you want Northern or Southern Hemisphere seasons (no, our seasons aren’t the “reverse” of yours — it’s the other way around).

是的，我必须承认《 动物穿越：新视野》确实在南半球最重要的方面之一：季节。 在游戏开始时创建岛屿时，您可以指定是否要北半球或南半球的季节( 不，我们的季节不是您的“反向”，反之亦然 )。

Recently, though, Nintendo dropped the first of their “free summer updates”. And at the time of writing, they’re a day or two away from deploying the second of these updates. You know where this is going, right? Free summer updates? Interesting assumption, Nintendo. Let’s explore what these updates mean for “the rest of us”.

不过，最近，任天堂放弃了他们的“夏季免费更新”中的第一个。 在撰写本文时，距离部署第二个更新还有一两天的时间。 你知道这是怎么回事吧？ 免费的夏季更新？ 有趣的假设，任天堂。 让我们探讨这些更新对“我们其余的人”意味着什么。

WAVE 1：Dis的夏日 (WAVE 1: The Summer of Dis Content)

In some respects, the first wave is actually more offensive than the second. Let’s take a look.

在某些方面，第一波实际上比第二波更具攻击性。 让我们来看看。

Swimming in the ocean

在海里游泳

Lizzie Bestow recently recommended 10 things to do in New Horizons. I strongly related to her “chilling out in the sea, having a little cry.” Try swimming in the sea during a snowstorm. You might be a specific kind of person who masochistically shocks the body with sudden temperature changes to remain young and healthy. But for the rest of us, a casual swim isn’t exactly the go-to in the middle of winter.

Lizzie Bestow最近推荐了《新视野》中的 10件事 。 我对她“ 在海中放松，略微哭泣 ”深有感触。 尝试在暴风雪中在海里游泳。 您可能是一种特定的人 ，他会随着温度的突然变化自虐地震动身体，从而保持年轻健康。 但是对于我们其余的人来说，在冬天中游并不完全适合游泳。

Now, there are other updates in Wave 1 that are pretty handy — and if you do brave the frigid, terrifying winter ocean, you’ll come across all sorts of new creatures and objects to collect. Who knows, maybe your lust for riches and museum expansion is more important to you than the absurdity of winter swimming. No judgement.

现在， 有在第一波是非常方便的其他更新-如果你这样做勇敢的寒冷，冬天惊心动魄的海洋，你会遇到各种各样的新的生物和对象来收集。 谁知道，也许对财富和博物馆扩建的欲望对您来说比冬季游泳的荒谬更为重要。 没有判断力。

WAVE 2：夏季临近 (WAVE 2: Summer Adjacent)

The second wave isn’t so bad. It’s a bit more globally appropriate, at least.

第二波还不错。 至少在全球范围内更合适 。

Island backup

孤岛备份

There’s not much to say about this one. But I’ll explain my perspective through a recent terrifying incident: my Switch couldn’t load any games, and I thought it was totally stuffed. It turned out that there was an issue with the SD card. Fortunately my island was saved on system memory so I didn’t need to retread many hours of mortgage repayments. The heart-stopping incident did make me wonder if my island was saved as part of Nintendo’s cloud-save service. Evidently (given this update), it wasn’t. Please enable cloud saves for all you games, Nintendo.

关于这一点，没有太多要说的。 但是，我将通过最近一次可怕的事件来解释我的观点：我的Switch无法加载任何游戏，而且我认为它已完全塞满。 原来，SD卡有问题。 幸运的是，我的孤岛已保存在系统内存中，因此无需重新读取许多小时的抵押贷款还款时间。 令人心碎的事件使我想知道我的岛屿是否被保存为任天堂的云保存服务的一部分。 显然(鉴于此更新)，事实并非如此。 任天堂，请为您所有的游戏启用云保存功能。

Visiting other islands in your dreams

梦想中游览其他岛屿

Nintendo are implementing a really cool feature here. A new character — Luna — will now visit you in your dreams. Not creepy at all. She’ll enable you to visit other folks’ islands. Or, to put it more accurately, dream-versions of their islands, which will prevent you from getting your sticky paws on their actual stuff and causing unknown havoc. This update is pretty cool; you’ll be able to bask in the glaring inadequacy of your own island design as you explore others’ great works.

任天堂在这里实现了一个非常酷的功能。 一个新角色Luna现在将在您的梦想中拜访您。 一点都不令人毛骨悚然。 她将使您能够参观其他人的岛屿。 或者，更准确地说，是岛屿的梦想版本 ，这将使您无法在自己的实际物品上粘上爪子，并且造成未知的破坏。 此更新非常酷； 当您探索他人的出色作品时，您将能够沉浸在自己的岛屿设计的明显不足中。

August fireworks spectacular

八月烟花壮观

Every Sunday in August, you’ll be treated to fancy fireworks shows. And you’ll be able to create your own, too! Nice. Thankfully, fireworks and parties during winter are very possible and might actually look pretty spectacular. Less fire hazard, too!

八月的每个星期日，您都可以欣赏到精美的焰火表演。 您也可以创建自己的！ 真好 值得庆幸的是，冬季有可能举行焰火晚会和派对，实际上看起来似乎很壮观。 火灾隐患也更少！

If you saw the headline of this piece and expected to get an article bashing Nintendo for not adequately catering to 10% of the world’s population, then I’m genuinely sorry. Sure, there’s some validity to the argument that global companies should be designing content for global audiences — and generally, I think Nintendo do that exceptionally well. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a slightly odd case given that so much of its content is based on the ebb and flow of the seasons. And making those seasons directly relevant to players greatly strengthens the experience for them.

如果您看到了这篇文章的标题，并期望因任天堂未能充分满足全球10％的人口而抨击任天堂，那么，我真的很抱歉。 当然，关于全球公司应为全球受众设计内容的论点是有道理的，而且总的来说，我认为任天堂在这方面做得特别好。 动物穿越：新视野是一个有点奇怪的案例，因为它的大部分内容都是基于季节的潮起潮落。 将这些季节与玩家直接相关可以极大地增强他们的体验。

If nothing else though, I hope this article does some consciousness raising. Spare a thought for those of us on the other side of the planet. Certain updates appear really bizarre for us, given the emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere experience.

如果没有别的，我希望本文能够提高人们的意识。 为地球另一端的我们这些人保留思想。 考虑到北半球的经验，某些更新对我们来说确实很奇怪。