The love for Tom Nook and his pals is still going strong, as sales of Nintendo needs to dominate the year.
The recent sales figures released by Nintendo revealed that New Horizons has already outsold Pokémon and Smash Ultimate in Japan.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20 and many pundits assumed that the game's sales would gradually slow down over time once the initial social media buzz wore off. It turns out that people are still buying up copies of New Horizons in different regions. According to has already sured its lifetime sales projections.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was one of the most highly-anticipated games of 2020, but there are outside influences that have helped the game find a wider audience than it might have otherwise. The COVID-19 situation has led to a lot of people turning to video games to help the time and New Horizons is perfect for that role. The sales for and the Switch have skyrocketed as a result of the lockdown, to the point where Nintendo is having trouble keeping its latest system in stock. New Horizons has also had an incredible presence on social media, with gamers sharing their creative projects made within the game and celebrities visiting the islands of their fans.
New Horizons has seen unprecedented success for its series and it has helped cement Animal Crossing as one of Nintendo's most formidable franchises. If the game can maintain a steady stream of sales over the next year, then it has a chance of becoming the best-selling Switch game of its era. This would be an amazing accomplishment, considering its opponents are the first Pokémon games on a home console, the biggest Smash Bros. game of all time, and a Mario Kart game with almost a 50% attach rate to its system.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
