Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a popular simulation title exclusive to Nintendo Switch, which has won the heart of the video game industry in the past few weeks.
From expert shooter players to famous artists outside the gamer world have come out in favor of the Nintendo title, increasing the overall popularity of this installment and raising the overwhelming support it was already receiving from fans.
Proof of this is that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has managed to sell the impressive amount of 1,880,626 physical units in Japan, according to the numbers shared by Famitsu. If we add to this figure the units sold in digital format, surely the number would be even more significant, easily exceeding 2 million.
Thus, Animal Crossing: New Horizons It has become the Nintendo Switch game with the best opening week in Japan, exceeding 1.36 million units sold of Pokemon Sword and Shield. The hardware of Nintendo Switch It also saw an increase with this release, both in its standard form and in its Lite version, which sold 392,576 units between March 16 and 22; for a total of 12,801,222 Nintendo Switch
This curious phenomenon could be due to the peace of mind offered by this delivery, which together with its social characteristics, are qualities that many people are looking for during quarantine; which at first seemed to negatively affect the game.
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