I don’t like the cost of that DLC at all but let’s be real here, if they didn’t put that in as DLC that content would just be bolted on to a third game with nominal changes to the base game and sold full price later this year. GameFreak have been doing “scummy DLC practices” for years, it’s just that instead of being downloadable they’ve been physical expansion packs that you needed to buy on top of a game you probably already owned (not all of the mainline sequels fall into this but the majority do).

I don’t see a reason to start worrying here. They’re shameless when it comes to mobile stuff but to the audience they know is loyal on Switch they’ve been very restrained. They’ve had a million opportunities to nickel and dime with popular games (selling coins or clothing for real money in Mario Odyssey for example) but they haven’t done anything quite so tacky with their consoles games yet. I’m sure Animal Crossing will eventually get DLC but given Nintendo’s track record I would expect it to simply add value to an already packed game rather than feel like they’ve stripped content to sell later.