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[Draugoth]

Animal Crossing has sold over 8 million physical units in Japan alone!

- Best selling physical game ever in Japan surpassing Pokémon Red and Green!

1. Animal Crossing New Horizons - 8M
2. Pokémon Red/ Green - 7.93M

 

[Hookshot]

To make the Japanese happy let them collect fossils, bugs and fish.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

Total with digital is around 11 million isnt it? Anyway spectacular achievement to sell 8 million physical copies.

 

[BlackTron]

It beat Pokemon

 

[Hookshot]

Total with digital is around 11 million isnt it? Anyway spectacular achievement to sell 8 million physical copies.

Yes, it needs a couple of million to outsell the world wide total of New Leaf (13.04) in this 1 country alone. New Leaf was seen as a huge success, setting then record sales for the franchise so the growth on Switch is insane.

 

[manzo]

It’s like digital crack for my daughters. No wonder why.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

It beat Pokemon

Way better than Pokémon

 

[Trilobit]

To make the Japanese happy let them collect fossils, bugs and fish.

And pay mortgage.

 

[lh032]

i played this game few years ago and stopped eventually, too many loadings.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Isn't it one of the 10 best selling games of all time full stop? Like ever. It was printing money during covid like it was toilet paper.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

It beat Pokemon

It was basically the game of the pandemic. Insane performance back then and it's still selling nowadays.

 

[Fake]

Beating Pokemon is not easy task.

 

[Saber]

Lol they actually beat Pokemon. Just remember that those cunts at Pokemon sells 2 versions of the same game and with bundles as well.
Either they are pretty damn good or Pokemon isn't going as well as they expected.

 

[KellyNole]

Next step is to have the option for a full online town in the next game to keep up the series sales.

 

[Robb]

Total with digital is around 11 million isnt it? Anyway spectacular achievement to sell 8 million physical copies.

I recall discussing that topic fairly recently. It was at 11.31M in total as of March 2024 in Japan alone.

 

[Quasicat]

Even now I rarely play anything else on my Switch long term. I played the new Zelda game last month and jumped right back into Animal Crossing. I normally buy new Nintendo hardware at launch, but realistically I will just be playing Animal Crossing on it.

 

[Effigenius]

Lol they actually beat Pokemon. Just remember that those cunts at Pokemon sells 2 versions of the same game and with bundles as well.
Either they are pretty damn good or Pokemon isn't going as well as they expected.

And Pokémon had no digital versions. AC crushed them.

 

[graywolf323]

Isn't it one of the 10 best selling games of all time full stop? Like ever. It was printing money during covid like it was toilet paper.

quite possibly, it hit at the perfect time just at the start of the lockdowns which saw a huge sales jump for video games in general

 

[ahtlas7]

I played the hell out of Animal Crossing during covid.

 

[RomanceDawn]

I purchased it digitally for my kids during the lock downs. I told myself I won’t touch the game as I I heard about how addicting it could get.

Little did I know I’d be the main one up at weird hours trying to find insects and fish, getting into Stalk Market shinanigans and cultivating the land into a grand utopia.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

quite possibly, it hit at the perfect time just at the start of the lockdowns which saw a huge sales jump for video games in general

At 44 million sold, it's the single best-selling platform exclusive game ever made. Every other game ahead of it was either a back-in with the system or was on multiple systems. (I guess Mario Kart 8 still wins since the bulk of it's sales are on Switch but still)



Animal Crossing was a beast!

 

[amigastar]

Hmm, i may wanna try it after all.
I've only played the 3DS Version for short time until i could't get other income than catching fish or something (i can't remember its some time ago)