The game has only been on the market for a couple of months, but in just one and a half months it already has more than 13.41 million copies worldwide.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has already sold more units than Nintendo expected for its entire life on the market. The game, released on March 20 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch, has computed 50% of its sales in digital format, a percentage that the company mainly attributes to the coronavirus crisis (COVID-19), which has made supply difficult. of physical copies in the main markets.
Although they expect that percentage to decrease, the Japanese firm draws extraordinary conclusions from this new installment. Shuntaro Furukawa, CEO and President of Nintendo, has undergone a question and answer session after the company's annual financial meeting on May 7; of which it has been known that Nintendo Switch has already sold 55.77 million units.
Although there have been many factors that have played in favor of the rapid initial sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, they especially cite the power of the voice on social networks, which has increased the "expectation", they allude. In addition, a percentage above normal of buyers of the game is feminine, superior to the average of titles of the console.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
13.41 million units in six weeks – Switch's fastest-selling
This new installment of the saga is a complete success. According to official data, the debut of Animal Crossing: New Horizons has reached the record of 13.41 million units sold in record time; 11.77 million copies in just eleven days. In just a month and a half it has become the sixth best-selling game on Nintendo Switch, as we can see in the top-10 of best-selling games on the console. With these figures, it already exceeds the sales of its predecessor, Animal Crossing: New Leaf for Nintendo 3DS, which added more than 12 million copies.
The immediate future of Animal Crossing: New Horizons lies directly in the updates with "surprises" for at least three years. From FreeGameTips we tell you below everything that is to come in the months of May and June. You can also check our Reviews of the game here, a text in which we rated the title with an excellent grade.
