After the September Direct where they showed more footage for New Horizons, I have seen that you start out with two villagers. At the Treehouse event, the villager had Hamlet and Fuchsia. And in the direct, they had Bill and Tammy. While it hasn’t been confirmed, it definitely seems to be the case. It makes sense because you’re on a deserted island with barely anything there, but this makes New Horizons to have the least amount of starting villagers, beating Wild World by one. What do you think about this? Who would you want your two villagers to be? In future titles, would there be a chance of starting out with one villager?

For my villagers it would either be Olivia or Goldie and Roald or Wolfgang for the confirmed ones.

Or Bluebear or Celia and Rudy or Groucho for the unconfirmed ones.

I also noticed that the villagers consist of 1 boy and 1 girl, so we are currently unsure if it'll be 2 boys or 2 girls.

I personally like the idea of starting off with only two villagers. at the start of each game, one of the most fun things is anticipating new residents that show up roughly every other day. with only two starters, that means that period of constantly getting new villagers should be longer.

also I'm pretty sure they did confirm in an interview somewhere that yes, you do start out with only two villagers, and that those two villagers paid for the same desert island escape package that you did, so it's both of their first days on the island too. I think unless they go with the deserted island concept again, we likely won't start with as few animals as we do in this game.

as for which two I'd want, I don't really have any strong preferences. I like nearly all of the animal designs, and even the ugly ones usually have really funny facial expressions. I usually end up eventually liking whoever I get.

Yeah, that’s cool. Though one last thing I do want to know is what will the total amount of villagers you can have be?

Didn't Wild World only start us off with 3?

Yes, hence:

"[...] this makes New Horizons to have the least amount of starting villagers, beating Wild World by one."

Whoops, didn't see that part. My bad.

Thats crazy! I was wondering if you'd get bored right away, but actually, considering you have to build everything from basic shovels to paths, etc I'm sure you'd find LOADS to do!

Edit:

Bones and Felicity as my favs

Ooh, interesting. I don't think there would be a game that starts off with one villager however, because it would be boring only having one villager to talk to and they wouldn't be able to mention anyone else in conversations, even if it were to be only for a day. I hope my two starting villagers will be both cats, preferably Olivia and Kid Kat.

For my two starting villagers, I supposed I'd love to have Phil and Callie! Phil my favorite villager (and best friend), and Callie was one of my original New Leaf villagers and the only one that hasn't moved out by now . I don't mind the randomness, though! It'd be awesome to have Phil join me from the start but I'm sure I'll come across him eventually even if he's not a starting villager.

The dream would be to start with Olivia and Papi.  

Something tells me I would have to restart thousands of times to get them both.

Luckily I do have both their Amiibo cards so hopefully those can be used to get them to visit or something.

I love the element of surprise that comes with starting the game!! Tammy and Lopez are in my NL town already, so it would be fun to get them again, but I do like having different villagers for each game!

I'm hoping Ace and Cupcake would be my 2 starters in my town!