Update: And just like that, all our hopes are shattered.
In an updated statement on its official Japanese website, Nintendo has addressed the mysterious new house spotted by Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans. Unfortunately, the statement (in Japanese) says that the house features an appearance that cannot be obtained in the actual game, and apologises for the confusion (thanks, AnimalCrossingWorld).
Looks like we're no closer to getting new characters after all!
Original Article (Mon 26th Apr, 2021 23:00 BST): Welcome to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons fandom, where people are so desperate to hear news about New Things that we'll scour trailers for any sign of a hint, like a prospector panning for gold in the bathtub.
The latest rumour is that there could be new characters — not the Sanrio ones, but even newer ones, and that all comes from a mysterious house seen in the latest update post.
This house shares some colours and characteristics with some of the other existing homes, but villager houses are made up of three elements: Door, Walls/Window, and Roof — and the particular combination seen in this trailer is new. You can even check for yourself!
Past Animal Crossing games have added new villagers into the game after launch. New Leaf's "Welcome Amiibo" update added Wolf Link, Medli, Ganon, Epona, and Splatoon-themed villagers Cece and Viché (referencing ceviche in a similar way to Callie and Marie referenced calamari), along with Inkwell the Octopus. The update also brought back 50 villagers from earlier games.
So it's not unlikely that we could be making new friends in Animal Crossing: New Horizons soon, but only time will tell if they're likeable or not. Let's just hope it's not another Raymond situation.
What type of villager would you like to see? Is there a particular animal that you feel is underrepresented in New Horizons? Let us know in the comments.
[source nintendo.com, via reddit.com]
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MonHun X ACNH confirmed ??
Probably just more amiibo support, which I wouldn't be surprised, since the updates keep becoming more and more underwhelming.
Couldn't it be that we'll have more customization options for the exterior of our houses instead of new villagers?
@roy130390 not likely, mainly because the size of the player's house isn't even similar to the house in the screenshot. This is just an animal's house.
if this is indeed true. i hope they add more animal crossing villagers that never appear in any games since the original game. (Dozer and Cupcake for example.)
I hope it's not new villagers that you just need to go to random Island tours to find.
I would need more than that to pick the game back up.
@Heavyarms55 If you get an amiibo Powersave, you don't need to hunt for anyone.
Hopefully the Zelda villagers from New Leaf!
I think it's crazy that they haven't brought back the trailers from New Leaf: Welcome Amiibo or the special villagers that can be summoned via Monster Hunter, Zelda, or Splatoon amiibo.
Amiibo should be flying off shelves but Nintendo are STILL reluctant to put Amiibo cards back on shelves now that there is FINALLY an Animal Crossing game worth a damn to use them on.
I hope we get new villagers (I still play almost daily) but as Nintentalk pointed out, there was an earlier trailer where they showed a white picket fence that never actually showed up in the game so it's very possible this is another instance of that.
@JHDK I wouldn't count this one out just yet. The trailer with white picket fence was before the game released. The game has been out for over a year now so I doubt they would use an earlier build. But who knows?
More amiibo villagers seems the most likely.
An error. Yeh. Okay Nintendo 👀
It might be a developer thing, where they have a way of producing screenshots like that unusual 4K promotional image for St Patrick's day, and they selected a house type that isn't legal in the current or future planned version of the game.
Which means, it's still potential insight into the possible addition of future characters, like they already have done with the Sanrio characters.
Aw man! Was thinking they would bring back some old villagers from the GCN. There are a lot of characters that never made it past the GCN.
Well.... that's depressing. :/
Nintendo actually said "Sorry about confusion, have a cheese wheel "
I don’t believe this is an error. They are working on something. Why would that even exist or be in their photo.
@VoidofLight The player house and villager houses are actually the same in size in a couple of expanding stages, but yeah, I guess it's a villager's house since you can't customize that much at that point. They will probably end up adding more villagers even if they claimed that it was a "mistake".
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