The title kicks off its first week on the Nintendo Switch by pulverizing records in the UK; the most quickly sold console and saga.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has debuted by smashing records in the UK. In a context marked by an unprecedented tension in society, the consumption of video games has exploded throughout Europe, including the sale of Nintendo Switch titles: it is the fastest-selling video game in the history of the console in English lands.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons sells more than all previous installments put together
The new iteration of the saga has sold in physical format in its first week — three computed days; Friday through Sunday — more than all previous installments put together, spin-offs included. To put in context, if we look only at Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2013, 3DS), Tom Nook and company's new horizons have debuted with 3.5 times higher sales.
We already have a new bridge! The moment had to be immortalized.
As we said, it is the best commercial performance in physical format of a Nintendo Switch video game since the console arrived in stores last year 2017; It thus surpasses Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Super Mario Odyssey; second only to combined sales of Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. If you consider the sales of the Game Freak adventures separately, New Horizons is also above.
All this taking into account that Nintendo does not report digital sales of its games, so the records may have been even better since, on the one hand, this work lends itself to digital sale; especially when a noticeable lack of stock was reported in stores due to the coronavirus. This great week in the UK is complemented by DOOM Eternal, second in the ranking, as well as a considerable percentage increase in video game sales this week, prior to the British government's recommendations for confinement.
Lampposts, telephone boxes, town hall, a fountain … This already takes the form of a town.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, exclusively for Nintendo Switch
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now available exclusively for Nintendo Switch. From FreeGameTips we are working on a complete guide to the game. In this article, we review where to buy the game in physical and digital format, at what price and with what editions. Also, we invite you to read our Reviews of the title and see how all the multiplayer functions are. In the future, it will be possible to make backups of our game in the cloud in case of theft, loss or breakdown of the console.
