Animal Crossing: New Horizons is so popular that people line up even for guides on it

In the last days of April in Japan, the launch of two massive guidebooks on life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons – the most hit console exclusive Nintendo switch. Today, the tracker unveiled data on the starting sales of 1000-page books Oricon. They are, of course, not as huge as themselves. selling the game itselfbut very large by the standards of the Japanese book market.

The Kadokawa Publishing Guide made its debut in first position with sales of 152.836 copies, and Nintendo Dream’s Guidebook with 79.182 copies came in second. The total number of books sold exceeded the mark of 232,000 copies in just a few days.

The Japanese press reports that people lined up at the shops for Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides.

So, the portal Yahoo japan writes that the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, which had not been working for about three weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, reopened its doors to visitors at the end of April and was just about to launch the Nintendo hitbooks. At this point of sale alone, more than 100 people stood in line for books.

Demand for guides exceeded supply, it is difficult to buy them in online stores, so people have to come to retailers to try their luck there.

Earlier it was reported that the sale of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in Japan itself reached the mark of 4 million copies in record time.

Read also: An incredible success story: Nintendo first revealed the sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and they are huge

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