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[IbizaPocholo]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Now Japan's Best-Selling Game of All Time

Animal Crossing: New Horizons rises to take a new record for itself, becoming the very best selling game in Japan ever.

gamerant.com

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has blasted through one of the most impressive sales records possible to become the best-selling game of all time in Japan. New Horizons has now cleared 10 million copies sold solely in Japan, pushing it past the previous record holder of Super Mario Bros., which has moved 6.81 million units over the course of its lifetime. An impressive feat, to be sure, especially since the next-highest seller was the original trio of Pokemon games.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

10 mill is japans best selling game ever? wow thought it would be more.

 

[Robb]

Did not expect the original Super Mario Bros. to be the previous best seller, or that it was ‘only’ at 6.8M..

If that’s the case I imagine AC will have the throne for a couple of decades from now on.

AC has just become insanely popular.. I also heard that New Horizons has outsold all of the previous AC games combined.

 

[BusierDonkey]

10 mill is japans best selling game ever? wow thought it would be more.

There are 125 million people in Japan. 1 in 12.5 people in Japan bought Animal Crossing New Horizons.

 

[Squarehard]

10 mill is japans best selling game ever? wow thought it would be more.

This is for Japan only, so it's a pretty hefty number considering.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

They dont fuck enough in Japan.

 

[GeekyDad]

That's encouraging to read. Simply because of the type of game it is. It's nice to see what many folks are focusing on.

 

[yurinka]

At least here in Europe Super Mario Bros was bundled in every NES sold. Was also the case of Japan?

 

[kingfey]

Selling 37m in under 2 years is massive accomplishment.

 

[Moses85]

 

[Boss Mog]

That's just sad on so many levels.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

At least here in Europe Super Mario Bros was bundled in every NES sold. Was also the case of Japan?

Quite rare for Japan to pack-in a game with a console, especially for Nintendo before the Wii.
So while I can’t be 100% sure, I can safely assume the answer is no.

This thread will generate some interesting comments.

 

[Marvel14]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Now Japan's Best-Selling Game of All Time

Animal Crossing: New Horizons rises to take a new record for itself, becoming the very best selling game in Japan ever.

gamerant.com

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has blasted through one of the most impressive sales records possible to become the best-selling game of all time in Japan. New Horizons has now cleared 10 million copies sold solely in Japan, pushing it past the previous record holder of Super Mario Bros., which has moved 6.81 million units over the course of its lifetime. An impressive feat, to be sure, especially since the next-highest seller was the original trio of Pokemon games.

It's not really a game. It's a life sim

#sarcasticallyangryatnintendosuccess

 

[Punished Miku]

Only if you group together AC played on Switch with AC played on Switch Lite

 

[Deerock71]

I thought this was known a while back.

 

[Lognor]

That's really impressive. I knew it was popular, but not THAT popular. Pretty cool that the best selling game in Japan has a female director

 

[Fbh]

Historians in the future will be like
"They lived alongside our lord and savoir Miyazaki, but heretically shunned him in favor of the sims with cuesty animals"

Only if you group together AC played on Switch with AC played on Switch Lite

2 completely different games!!!!!!!!

 

[Outlier]

That's a lot of probably lonely people.

Congrats to Nintendo though, I guess.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I think that the success is due to the confinement of the covid 19 pandemic that somehow kept people calmer from this atrocious event and helped them not to be stressed.

 

[EDMIX]

10 mill is japans best selling game ever? wow thought it would be more.

Well, it sounds like it should be more so, that number seems suspect lol

I'm more then positive many games have surpassed that in Japan on Portable, Mobile etc.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Well deserved. It's a fantastic game. Nintendo with the big dick numbers.

 

[KingGhidorah]

Switch games are breaking records left and right

Switch is really doing wonders for Nintendo IPs

 

[LazyParrot]

That article claims the game has “just now” become the best selling title of all time. How can that be if there is a 3 million sale gap between it and the previous record holder? Did it sell 3 million copies overnight?

 

[MScarpa]

10 mill is japans best selling game ever? wow thought it would be more.

Because Japan is dead?

 

[ByWatterson]

Ehhhh.

K.