Update (Wed 25th Mar, 2020 09:45 GMT): The reports are true, as they are new Details for Famitsu (thanks, VGC) confirms that Crossing the Animals: New Horizons sold 1.88 million large copies in just three days in Japan.
As mentioned in our original article below, this means that New Horizons had the best launch of any Switch game so far in the region, beating the previous record held by Pokémon Sword and Shield (1.3 million in three days) and Super Smash Bros. Finally1.2 million sales at one time.
A total of $ 1.88 million only covers physical sales, so adding (yet unknown) digital sales to the mix might be eye-watering.
Original article (Mon 23rd Mar, 2020 14:15 GMT): Hold on to your hats, folks, we think there will be more news like this one coming up in the next few weeks.
Yes, Geo Corporation's new data report (via 4Gamer), it means Crossing the Animals: New Horizons just had the biggest opening weekend of any switchch game in the three-year console history in Japan. As noted VGC, this will put the sale on the first three days of the game before Pokémon Sword and ShieldA total of 1.3 million, too Super Smash Bros. Finally& # 39; s in 1.2 million nations.
The game also saw the first success of the UK. Our first chart data show from the UK showing that the title went straight to number one, beating all of the inaugural Animal Crossing & # 39;
Currently, the best-selling Animal Crossing game in the world Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which had sold 12.45 million copies since December of 2019. It may be short-lived to say so, but it would not be a surprise to see New Horizons finally rise with this figure.
How many copies do you think the game will eventually sell? Ten million? 15 million? More? Put your bet in the comments below.
