The shortage of units of the new episode of the saga has splashed the work released in 2013 for Nintendo 3DS, which is sold at great prices.
The lack of supply of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch in Japan has led to an increase in demand for Animal Crossing: New Leaf for Nintendo 3DS and, consequently, growing speculation around the price of the video game. Since last March 20, when the title was put on sale on Switch, there has already been a significant upturn in 3DS work, reaching the Top-25 in the last week of March; Now, the situation has become out of control because of the coronavirus, which has precipitated a state of emergency in Japan.
Sold for double the usual price: speculation
The crisis of COVID-19 has caused that Nintendo is not being able to supply the units corresponding to the enormous demand that exists both for Nintendo Switch and its main bulwarks in the catalog, where Animal Crossing: New Horizons is located. The fact that both products are out of stock has turned into an increase in sales of New Leag in sales portals, where the physical version has cost around 10,000 yen, which in exchange is 92 dollars or 85 euros.
For its part, the digital version on a card that can be exchanged in the eShop with the update (in this case, Welcome Amiibo) has gone from costing 2,500 yen to 5,000 yen, about 43 euros; twice the usual.
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Nintendo has already announced in a global statement that it will be able to supply more Nintendo Switch units and their corresponding video games over the next few days and weeks, so that this quarter it will gradually restore its usual rhythm of supply.
We have recently learned that speculation also affects the United States, where an organized group used a bot-automated tool to mass-buy Nintendo Switch units that they then resold at exorbitant prices. For its part, Nintendo has just announced that they are going to increase the production of Nintendo Switch by 10% in 2020 compared to 2019 due to the growth that is being experienced in the demand for the console since the pandemic began.
References | Weekly Game Sales in Japan (Famitsu); Esuteru via Nintendo Life
