Prerelease and unused content in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The following is a list of prerelease and unused content in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Early builds
E3 2019
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was formally revealed in E3 2019, although many elements of the game had changed from its reveal on June 11, 2019 to its release on March 20, 2020.
Notably, grass patterns are confined to a small circle and spread around the island, unlike the final game featuring a more uniform grass pattern scattered across the island. The snow also lacked a grass pattern in the reveal, with the final game featuring a circle pattern. The Call Resident app in this demo is called "Call Islander" instead. The player also uses the Island Designer Construction Permit without a helmet in this demo.
Fuchsia's house is different in this build of the game than the final version. While her wallpaper and flooring remained the same, Fuchsia originally featured a Wooden Simple Bed instead of the Loft Bed with Desk in the final game. Her house layout also changed, with the Cute DIY Table, Ironwood Cart, Double Sofa, Cute Wardrobe, Monstera, Wall-Mounted TV (50 in.), Cute Floor Lamp, and Cute Music Player in a different placement in the initial build. Fuchsia's Rock Guitar was also in the Coral Pink variant than the Fire Red variant. Additionally, the Red Cute Floor Lamp's shade was colored white in this build instead of red in the final build.
Nintendo Direct 9.4.19
Although much of New Horizons by this point had been finalized, there are some elements that differ a bit from the final game. Rosie's name bubble was originally colored dark blue than light blue in the final game. Outside of the DIY Recipe app, item names were lowercase instead of the sentence case that was included in the final product.
The interface that appears whenever a player eats an edible item is colored red and does not feature an limit identicator.
