“Animal Crossing: New Horizons” is also the best-selling game in the region.
Nintendo Switch It is by far the most popular game console in Japan.
According to data from the local game magazine Famitsu (via GamesIndustry.biz), by 2020, 87% of the game consoles sold in the country are Switches. Nintendo’s regular hardware transferred 3.9 million units, while the recently released lite version sold only 2 million copies. Overall, Switch sales increased by 30% year-on-year.
By 2020, Japan has purchased a total of 6.85 million game consoles. The second place is PlayStation 4, which transferred 543,000 game consoles. At the same time, PlayStation 5 sold 225,000 copies.
Overall, Japan’s spending on video games last year was US$3.5 billion, an increase of 12.5% over 2019. The sales of game consoles drove this growth, with sales increasing by 16.4% to $1.8 billion. At the same time, boxed games brought in $1.75 billion in revenue in 2020, an increase of 9%.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the best-selling physics game in Japan that year was Nintendo’s own Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which sold 6,378,103 copies by 2020. This is more than four times the number of units transferred by the second best-selling game “Ring Fit Adventure”. , 1,591,366 copies were sold.
Momotaro Dentetsu of Konami: Showa Heisei Reiwa mo Teiban! Ranked third with 1,233,023 copies sold, surpassing Final Fantasy 7: Remake and Pokemon Sword/Shield, which sold 949,379 and 892,456 units, respectively.
From its launch in March 2017 to September 2020, Nintendo Switch sold 68.3 million units, and “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” has sold 14.27 million copies since its launch in March last year.
