Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to break sales records
It has now sold more digital units than any other Switch game.
Nintendo’ssmash-hit simulation gameAnimal Crossing: New Horizonscontinues to break sales records, and now sits on the top of theNintendo Switchdigital charts.
New Horizons is currently the Switch’s top-selling title “for both lifetime digital sales and lifetime digital revenue,” according to Nielsen Company’sSuperData. It sold 3.6 million digital units this month alone, breaking records and surpassing triple A titles such as thePlayStation-exclusiveFinal Fantasy VII Remakewhich only sold a total of 2.2 million digital units back in April.
Since its release in March, Animal Crossing has broken a number of other records. Last month, it surpassed Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III as the title with the most console digital salesin the span of a monthat 5 million units. New Horizons is also thefastest-selling Switch game of all time, amassing a total of over 13 million system bundles and digital unit sales during its first six weeks.
Comparing to its 2019 data, Nintendo has revealed that its digital sales increased by a whopping 71.8% this year. The company raked in JP¥ 204 million (US$ 1.9 million) for this fiscal year, as revealed in afinancial reportreleased by the company.
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