Animal Crossing Sales

Posted : admin | On 02-05-2021

Animal Crossing Sales
Animal Crossing Sales History

Animal Crossing sales being on the rise coincides with the UK’s latest national lockdown, the same way the game enjoyed spectacular sales at launch during the first lockdown in March 2020. New year, new things to discover! Check out everything that's going on this January on your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island.

Nintendo's latest earnings report contained plenty of good news for the company, including the revelation that the Nintendo Switch has now sold nearly 80 million units worldwide. Even more eye-popping, though, is the news that Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Nintendo Switch has hit gold with their latest Animal Crossing title, New Horizons. Nintendo launched the game on March 20, 2020, and it became an instant hit. According to the NPD Group, an American market-research company, New Horizons now ranks as the third highest-selling game in the first month of launch by Nintendo.
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A social simulation video game, where players interact with other gamers on an island while collecting and building items, “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” was an immediate success, selling more.
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, classic experiences come to life in fun new ways. Customize your character and home as you create your own Animal Crossing paradise. Garden, fish, decorate, and interact with charming NPCs.

has surpassed 31 million sales as of December 31, less than 10 months after its release last March.We've written a number of times about why

Animal Crossing's chill, landscape-tending gameplay lends itself perfectly to our current stuck-inside-amid-a-pandemic moment. But these new sales numbers show just how much of a phenomenon the latest title has been in driving Nintendo's recent success.

To show just how incredible it is for an Animal Crossing game to sell 31 million copies, we've gathered some relevant statistics to help put that massive number into context:

31.18 million: Sales for Animal Crossing: New Horizons through December 31, 2020

11.77 million: Number of those sales that came in the game's first 12 days on the market in March 2020.
31.38 million: Lifetime sales for Pokemon Red/Green/Blue on the Game Boy.
30.8 million: Lifetime sales for New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS.

35.12 million: Total combined sales for all previous Animal Crossing console games.
- Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival (Wii U, 2015): 490K
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS, 2015): 3.47M
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS, 2012): 12.82M
- Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, 2008): 4.32M
- Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS, 2005): 11.75M
- Animal Crossing (GameCube, 2001): 2.27M

Vs. Nintendo hardware share

39%:Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales as a percentage of total Nintendo Switch sales (31.18M / 79.87M)

16.9%:Animal Crossing: New Leaf sales as a percentage of total Nintendo 3DS sales (12.82M / 75.94M)
10.4%:Animal Crossing sales as a percentage of total GameCube sales (2.27M / 21.74M)
7.6%:Animal Crossing: Wild World sales as a percentage of total Nintendo DS sales (11.75M / 154.02M)
4.3%:Animal Crossing: City Folk sales as a percentage of total Wii sales (4.32M / 101.63M)
3.6%:Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival sales as a percentage of total Wii U sales (0.49M / 13.56M)

Vs. other Nintendo best-sellers

39%:Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales as a percentage of total Nintendo Switch sales (31.18M / 79.87M)

41.8%:Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sales as a percentage of total Switch sales (33.41M / 79.87M)
39.7%:Super Smash Bros. for Wii U sales as a percentage of total Wii U sales (5.38M / 13.56M)
36.7%:Mario Kart Wii sales as a percentage of total Wii sales (37.48M / 101.63M)
34.1%:Super Smash Bros. Melee sales as a percentage of total GameCube sales. (7.41M / 21.74M)
29.9%:Mario Kart 64 sales as a percentage of total N64 sales. (9.87M / 32.93M)
29.1%:Super Mario Bros. 3 sales as a percentage of total NES sales (18M / 61.91M)
24.9%:Mario Kart 7 sales as a percentage of total Nintendo 3DS sales (18.92M / 75.94M)
21.5%:Super Mario All-Stars sales as a percentage of total SNES sales. (10.55M / 49.1M)
19.9%:New Super Mario Bros. sales as a percentage of total Nintendo DS sales (30.8M / 154.02M)

Vs. quick-selling first-year video games

31.18 million: Sales for Animal Crossing: New Horizons in about 9.5 months (approx. 3.28M / month)

34 million: Sales of Grand Theft Auto V in ~8.5 months (approx. 4M / month)
30 million: Projected first-year sales of Cyberpunk 2077, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg (projected 2.5M / month).
20 million: Sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in ~7 months (approx. 2.85M / month).
15.4 million Sales for Mario Kart Wii in ~12 months (approx. 1.28M / month)

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Almost exactly a year after its launch, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold seven million copies across Europe -- the largest first-year total for any Nintendo game in the region.

According to figures from Nintendo, the seven million sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons represents one-third of all Switch owners in Europe. The figure includes both physical and digital units.