Animal Crossing: New Horizons Crosses Lifetime Sales Targets
Latest financial reports of Nintendo reveal that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has surpassed its lifetime sales projections.
Now that most people throughout the world are in self-quarantine and busy gaming, a large part of them has found solace in Nintendo Switch-exclusive social simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons from developer/publisher Nintendo.
Translation and summarizing of a recent a Q&A session from Nintendo Annual Financial Briefing by President and CEO Shuntaro Furukawa reveals that New Horizons have now surpassed original lifetime sales number estimated by Nintendo.
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Within first two months of its worldwide release, New Horizons has already exceeded its lifetime sales projections set by company and thus, completely outselling every other top-selling Nintendo games for Switch console.
When it comes to breaking sales records on Nintendo systems, titles like Mario, Pokémon and Super Smash Bros. often comes to mind. This has been an ongoing case for Nintendo Switch ever since its launch back in 2017 till March 2020.
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New Horizons have easily crossed previous records set by major first-party Nintendo titles in a friendly competition shortly after its release on Switch and has sold more copies than any other titles from Animal Crossing franchise so far.
In a month of launch, not only has it crossed way over combined earnings of all previous series releases, Animal Crossing: New Horizons might very well be the best-selling game for entire lifetime of Nintendo Switch handheld console.
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Recent crisis of COVID-19 pandemic contributed to huge success of New Horizons as millions of people seeks escape from boredom practicing social-distancing and probably will inspire Nintendo to continue support with new content.
Additional reports say that Animal Crossing: New Horizons was popular among 20 and 30 year old fans, with 40% of them were female. From an overall 55 million sales number, a total of 21 million Nintendo Switch units were sold in last fiscal year.
Now that most people throughout the world are in self-quarantine and busy gaming, a large part of them has found solace in Nintendo Switch-exclusive social simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons from developer/publisher Nintendo.
Translation and summarizing of a recent a Q&A session from Nintendo Annual Financial Briefing by President and CEO Shuntaro Furukawa reveals that New Horizons have now surpassed original lifetime sales number estimated by Nintendo.
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RELATED: Nintendo to Remaster Super Mario Bros. Games for 35th Anniversary
Within first two months of its worldwide release, New Horizons has already exceeded its lifetime sales projections set by company and thus, completely outselling every other top-selling Nintendo games for Switch console.
When it comes to breaking sales records on Nintendo systems, titles like Mario, Pokémon and Super Smash Bros. often comes to mind. This has been an ongoing case for Nintendo Switch ever since its launch back in 2017 till March 2020.
RELATED: Breath of The Wild Players Beats Game Using Twitch Chat
New Horizons have easily crossed previous records set by major first-party Nintendo titles in a friendly competition shortly after its release on Switch and has sold more copies than any other titles from Animal Crossing franchise so far.
In a month of launch, not only has it crossed way over combined earnings of all previous series releases, Animal Crossing: New Horizons might very well be the best-selling game for entire lifetime of Nintendo Switch handheld console.
RELATED: New Mario & Luigi Trademark Filed by Nintendo
Recent crisis of COVID-19 pandemic contributed to huge success of New Horizons as millions of people seeks escape from boredom practicing social-distancing and probably will inspire Nintendo to continue support with new content.
Additional reports say that Animal Crossing: New Horizons was popular among 20 and 30 year old fans, with 40% of them were female. From an overall 55 million sales number, a total of 21 million Nintendo Switch units were sold in last fiscal year.
