Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an enormous hit in Japan.
According to the latest Famitsu numbers, Animal Crossing: New Horizons offered 1.88 million copies at retail in Japan throughout its first three days available on the market.
This makes it the best-selling opening weekend ever for a Switch title, a file which was beforehand held by Pokemon Sword and Shield with 1.three million in gross sales (thanks, Nintendo Everything).
The Animal Crossing determine represents retail copies, game playing cards and the Switch bundle solely. Digital gross sales weren’t reported, so after all, as soon as factored within the determine can be a lot bigger.
The Famitsu figure is 5,800 units more than the 1.three million reported by Geo Corporation earlier this week.
For the interval of March 16-22, Switch offered 392,576 models offered in comparison with 57,274 the prior week. The determine represents each the usual Switch and Switch Lite. It’s wasn’t famous what number of of these models have been the Animal Crossing bundle.
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