Prerelease:Super Mario Odyssey

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Super Mario Odyssey.

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Concept art and cutscenes storyboards on the Switch News app and Super Mario Odyssey Japanese twitter account.
In the Super Mario Odyssey Official Soundtrack album there’s a booklet containing a concept art for Pauline and the New Donk City stage.
Track down all the unused ideas from the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book, and include them in the article.
Some pre-release events had wall projections showing early footage.
E3 2017 demo home menu banner
E3 2017 demo controls sheet (but not sure if this was taken at E3 or another event)
More concept art, 2, 3
Planning phase model and a sketch of an early Seaside Kingdom.

Super Mario Odyssey was one of the first Nintendo Switch games revealed albeit it was unnamed for several months. Unlike other 3D Mario games which changed drastically, Super Mario Odyssey only went through slight changes in its pre-release stage, or at least the game did in public appearances.

1 Development Timeline
2 October 2016
- 2.1 Nintendo Switch Reveal Trailer
3 January 2017
- 3.1 Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017
4 June 2017
- 4.1 E3 2017
  - 4.1.1 Show Floor Demo
5 June 2019 (?)
- 5.1 Employment Information - Nintendo.co.jp
6 November 2019
- 6.1 The Art of Super Mario Odyssey
7 September 2021
- 7.1 "Production Planning System" Online Seminar
8 References

Development Timeline

2014
- April - Yoshiaki Koizumi reveals that the next 3D Mario game after Super Mario 3D World was already in development but declined to say whether it would be on the Nintendo 3DS or Wii U.
2016
- October 20th - The Nintendo Switch is revealed. Super Mario Odyssey is briefly shown but left unnamed and Nintendo refuses to confirm or comment on any games apart from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild until the next year.
2017
- January 12th/13th - At the Switch Presentation, a trailer is shown which officially confirms the short clip shown in the Switch Reveal as an open-world 3D Mario game, the first since Super Mario Sunshine in 2002, called Super Mario Odyssey.
- June 13th - At E3 2017, another trailer is shown alongside a playable demo. The E3 trailer reveals that Mario can use Cappy to "capture" various enemies and objects, possessing them. The demo was built on May 8th at 15:01:11 (unknown timezone) on this date, according to the banner as seen in this video.
- October 27th - Super Mario Odyssey releases worldwide on the Nintendo Switch.
- December 1st - The game is released in South Korea and Taiwan.
2018
- February 21st - The Luigi's Balloon World update is released which also adds three new outfits, most notably the Sunshine Shades and Outfit from Super Mario Sunshine.

October 2016

Nintendo Switch Reveal Trailer

Only the Sand Kingdom was shown and very briefly. Some things were changed in the final version:

There are less Tostarenans than in the final.
All of the cacti are different in one way or another.
The moon is at a different position.
There's no checkpoint flag.
Some Ice Formations in the trailer aren't in the final.
The Tostarenan near the Jaxi sign has a different animation.
A cactus on top of the building behind the purple one is missing.
The Bowser's Wedding posters are missing.
The Jaxi sign is different in the trailer.

(Source: Beta Compare Club)

January 2017

Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017

The trailer theme is an unorchestrated and shorter version of the staff roll theme which itself is a remix of the Cascade Kingdom theme.
Steam Gardens was originally called "Kogwald" (German for "cog forest") as seen in a billboard in New Donk City.
The textures for the intro were simpler and less detailed.

June 2017

E3 2017

Show Floor Demo

There was a playable demo at the first E3 open to the public. A Debug Menu was briefly shown in the E3 2017 demo via late pictures. While sead::TextWriter which is what was used to display this Debug Menu is still in versions 1.0-1.2 of the game, the menu itself is not.

Buttons	Options
Hold ZL	Use Debug Codes
- - -	SHOW/HIDE Debug Codes
- X	Life Keep On
- Y	Debug Move On
- - R A	Life +1
- A	COIN +1000
- B	COLLECT COIN 100

The Debug Menu of Super Mario Odyssey shown at E3.

(Source: Reddit)

June 2019 (?)

Employment Information - Nintendo.co.jp

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November 2019

The Art of Super Mario Odyssey

In the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book, there are numerous pieces of concept art showing unused costumes for characters, early kingdom designs and design revisions for various characters and enemies featured in the game. Some of these include:

Early versions of the New Donk City area, with different art styles to the final game. For instance, one version has a more cartoony look with NPCs resembling Mario and Luigi, whereas another is more anime esque, with NPCs similar to those in the Professor Layton series.
A picture of Rosalina dressed as a musician, indicating she was originally meant to have a role in this game.^[2]
Bowser wearing a trenchcoat, which could be taken to imply he was meant to wear costumes themed around each of the game's kingdoms when encountered there (like Princess Peach in the postgame).
Doki Doki Panic was also going to be referenced at one point too, with early Sand Kingdom/Tostarena concepts showing arabian style NPCs, camels, snake charmers and Gao type Sphinx creatures instead of the Mexican esque ones in the final game.^[3]
Cats made an appearance in New Donk City as NPCs.
Cappy went through numerous redesigns in the game's development, with early concepts showing him as everything from a Dragon Quest style slime with a witch's hat to a penguin like creature in a bowler hat.
The Ruined Dragon was meant to be an Eastern styled dragon at one point, with early designs showing him resembling Chinese dragons and even a humanoid god like being.
Bowser also had a flying car at one point, which resembled the Bowser Mobile from Super Mario 3D World.
Art for Toad Town can also be seen in the book, along with human tourists visiting the Mushroom Kingdom.
And the Cloud Kingdom was also significantly different earlier in development, with concept art depicting it as a mountainous region and palace built out of clouds rather than the arena found in the final game.