The success Nintendo has seen thanks to the launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is truly off the charts, with new data now revealing that more Switch consoles were sold in Japan last week than at the console's launch.
The game, which has just had the most successful launch of any Switch title ever in the region, has triggered a huge spike in new console sales across the country. Famitsu reports that just over 392,000 units were sold last week (including both Switch and Switch Lite models), comfortably topping the 330,000 total achieved during the system's launch.
New Horizons' success isn't limited to just Japan, either, as chart data from the UK shows that the title went straight to number one, selling more copies in its opening week than all past Animal Crossing games combined.
Expect the game to break into the Switch's top ten best-seller list very quickly indeed. In fact, with sales across America and Europe still to be calculated, it's possible that it has already.
Update: Full Japanese chart data is now available, revealing exact numbers and this week's top ten games.
[source famitsu.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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Nintendo should release new bundle with beautiful color like ACNH bundle.
It will attract more buyer.
Just look at beautiful color of White dock and Pastel Blue & Green color of Joy Cons. 😍
That's a pretty big contrast to the last few weeks, with the recent stock shortages. Good too see they were able to get enough systems out there to be able to capitalise on the Animal Crossing hype.
That's nice. Now where's our Direct?
Totally impressive! Amazing success!!! It seems switch will have great legs!!!
@CowCatcher That's true. I'll be interested to see how many were regular Switches and how many were Switch Lites.
@BenAV roughly a 2:1 ratio of Switch Lites to Normal sold, which also indicates they spent time stockpiling normal switch stock as well, since the last few weeks the ratio was closed to 4:1
I guess one island per switch was a good idea. 😉
@SCAssassin Stockpiled what they could at least. Sounds like they still mustn't have been too many of them around otherwise they'd usually easily outsell the Lite. Maybe it was just the Animal Crossing edition?
B-b-b-b-but XBox and PS5 are around the corner? Teraflops, SSDs, raytracing etc....?
I like to mix up my handheld/docked game play but this has been 99% handheld all the way. Just feels right.
COVID probably had a lot to do with it too...
This is truly heart warming ^^
@TheNewButler I'm curious to see how much these new machines cost...my current thinking at the moment based on what I've seen I'd be quite happy walking away from it all again if it's more of the same with a bit more glitter on top.
@WiltonRoots with the current crisis in mind, I think the PS5 and XBOX Series X will be delayed into 2021.
@TheNewButler I don't think he's saying they won't have an effect. They will for sure, although I highly doubt they will be launching in 2020 anymore, and by the time they do I'm pretty sure Switch will have sold 70 million consoles easily. I'm not exactly sure you can dump 70 million console owners that easily, plus as with each gen the first few years will see mostly cross-gen releases anyway
@WiltonRoots None of that means anything to me..goes totally over my head lol so long as the games are good.
@TheNewButler maybe, maybe not. Production is just one link in a massive supply chain though and most Western countries entered lockdown in March. I doubt they will make it to 2020 under the current circumstances but we'll see I guess-the fact that atm they are both going with a generic "holidays 2020" release date doesn't inspire confidence either.
Animal Crossing is a beast! Hope we'll get the US numbers soon (or the worldwide sales). Don't know how well it did here in Sweden (we seem to be more Sony oriented here), but I believe it was the most pre-ordered game on several Swedish online stores.
@Wazeddie22 That's it in a nutshell really, games. Interesting new games, not more first person shooters and third person melee/cover based mannequin combat but now with greater clarity and slightly less dead eyes, oh and much better stubble. It would be nice to see new twists on played out genres.
Simply amazing Switch hardware sales....
As if we needed any more confirmation that Animal Crossing is a system seller.
They sure have managed to ramp up production quickly again...
@Nomad I guess one island per switch was a good idea. 😉
Indeed it was!
Nintendo is the best deveolper of all time. This game is the greatest ever made.
I was just talking about about this over at resetera. The whole site appears to be in a State of Shock over this. Especially fans of other consoles. The fact that this may very well be the most consoles that any system in history has sold in one week is blowing people away
@Amin_Parker When you design a popular game like Animal Crossing in a way that requires each person to have their own console to get the full experience.....
@liljmoore hopefully soon buddy....hopefully soon.
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