Surprisingly absolutely no one, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still the best-s🍬elling video game in Japan for 2020 so far.
Yes, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing is still wildly popular. The fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game of all tim🥃e is also fast approaching the topꦦ five in terms of overall sales figures, and all this for a game that just released last March.
Oh, and it’s a🦹lso still the best꧒-selling Nintendo Switch game in Japan.
According to , which just released its sales figures for the first half of 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 5,004,720 units in the first half of 2020 in Japan. Note that this number only counts physical sales and sales of digital download cards tha📖t ไyou can buy in-store and not sales that were done entirely digitally.
This puts New Horizons far above the next best-selling game of 2020, Final Fantasy VII Remake, which sold just under a million copies, and well above Pokémon Sword & Shield, which sold 650,859 copies.
All of this continues the massive success story of Animal Crossing. The game came out at the perfect time when COVID-19 had just arrived in many Western countries and was causing government-mandated lockdowns. With nothing else to do, people turned toဣ video games, and what better game t𝔉o wait out the apocalypse than a chill game where you talk to friendly animals?
AC: New Horizons sold 1.8 million copies in 🍰its first week 🤡of sales in Japan and ran through 90% of its initial stock. May's sales figures reported total sales of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:13.41 million units worldwide, and there's und♎oubtedly🏅 been many more millions sold since then.
New Horizons has gotten so popular that even celebrities are playing it. People held their graduations in Animal Crossing, while some people 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:are even getting married there. It's the virtual world that allows for some sense of normalcy in these very abnormal times. There's even an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing talk show where everyone shows up in their New Horizons avatars.
Will Animal Crossing: New Horizons go on to become the bestඣ game of 2020? Probably. And I’m fine with that.
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