The commercial success of Animal Crossing: New Horizons It is beyond doubt: in the last financial report it was confirmed that it had exceeded, in just over a month for sale, more than 13 million units sold.
Now we know that the game has overcome iEven the most optimistic forecasts from Nintendo: This was stated by Shuntaro Furukawa, President of Nintendo, at its general meeting of shareholders.
You've already passed what you think you will sell in your entire business life
When asked about the performance of the game, Furukawa stated that "the initial sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have greatly exceeded our expectations. "In fact, has already exceeded total sales that they were expected to achieve in their entire commercial life.
"Everything has happened much faster than we had anticipated"
"The current sales are what we had planned for your entire business life, taking into account all the time that had passed since the last installment ". And it is that, beyond derived games, the last main game was for Nintendo 3DS and debuted in 2013.
50% of sales in the main markets have been in digital format
"Everything has happened much faster than we had anticipated," says Furukawa, who explained that in the main markets the game has been half sold between the traditional physical format and digital download.
"In JAPN, USA and Europe around 50% of current users have purchased the game via digital download"the president of Nintendo points out." Yes, he has not elaborated if this distribution of sales corresponds to what they expected to happen or if perhaps it has been resolved from the quarantines and social distancing measures that have been imposed to prevent the spread of Covid-19 disease, causing the current global health crisis.
