The sensational life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons the company Nintendo became the fastest-selling project in history Switch in Japan. This was announced today, March 25, by the publication. Famitsu. In just three days, Japanese gamers bought 1,880,626 copies of the game on physical media. For comparison, Pokemon sword & shield and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate started with indicators of 1.36 and 1.23 million boxes, respectively.
At the same time, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is also expected to have very large digital sales, which only Nintendo can later talk about.
Based on retail statistics from Famitsu, users calculated:
- If the eShop store accounts for 10% of the total starting indicators, the final sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the Japanese region in the first three days will amount to 2,089,584 copies;
- 20% – 2,350,782 copies;
- 30% – 2,686,608 copies;
- 40% – 3,134,376 copies.
~ 32% of the initial sales of the above-mentioned Pokemon Sword & Shield were provided by the eShop. In the first week, Nintendo sold 2 million copies of role-playing games, of which ~ 640,000 were digital.
With 30% sales at eShop, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will receive the title of the fastest-selling game in market history in general. Now the record belongs Pokemon black & white 2010 release – 2.64 million in the first week. Followed by Final Fantasy VIII (1999) and Dragon quest ix (2009) with 2.50 and 2.34 million, respectively.
However, some experts believe that eShop did not account for 30%, but 40-50% of the initial circulation of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This is due to the growing popularity of digital shopping and quarantine measures in connection with the spread of coronavirus – schools are closed, many people have switched to remote work and prefer not to leave home again. In this case, the starting sales of the new Switch-exclusive can exceed 3 million copies..
The previous part of the series, Animal Crossing: New Leaf for Nintendo 3DS, became the most popular game in Japan over the past decade, started in November 2012 with sales of ~ 800 thousand copies and eventually reached the mark of 5.8 million.
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For the premiere of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo was able to assemble a huge batch of Switch. Famitsu reports that Japanese bought nearly 400,000 consoles last week – This is more than any other week since the release of Switch.
Since the beginning of 2023, there have been problems with the supply of systems to the Japanese region due to coronavirus. How much fell on a regular Switch and how much on Switch Lite will be known tonight.
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