Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Now Japan's Second Best-Selling Game Ever - Nintendo Life

Since Nintendo released its latest financial results, we've been hearing a lot about Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales2

It's now sold over 22 million copies worldwide which means it has sold more copies than the entire Metroid franchise.

If this wasn't already enough proof of just how big Nintendo's life sim series has become over the years, Game Data Library has crunched some numbers - revealing the most recent entry is now the second best-selling video game ever within Japan3

Technically this means Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the best-selling single SKU in Japan - putting it ahead of the original Super Mario Bros4

Here's the full list of the top 20 best-selling video games in Japan of all-time, courtesy of Nintendo Everything:.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) – 7,500,000.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) – 5,800,0009

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) – 5,330,000.

The two other Switch titles featured on this list include Pokémon Sword and Shield and Super Smash Bros.

Are you impressed as we are by this Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales data.

When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games.

I mean think about it, thirty years of games and consoles have launched since then and somehow that lame Game Boy launch game has managed to stay in the top twenty.

The whole list is.

Glad to see it on the list.

All I'm seeing is that Japan is Nintendo country!

Nintendo games and Nintendo consoles.

The only games on that list that are not on Nintendo consoles are not first-party PSP games and there are only two games that are on Nintendo consoles that are not first-party.

I’m amazed that there’s not a single PS2 game in that list.

I know Japan loves handhelds but I thought the PS2 was a beast in Japan.

I just think it's a fascinating view into the interests of the Japanese market, especially considering that this whole list consists of only a few franchises?

I am really surprised to see no Final Fantasy games on this list, and only one Dragon Quest game.

It is also really interesting that 15 of the games are on purely handheld systems.

Fascinating list.

😉 I guess that what I meant is that it was such a phenomenal sensation at the time, that I am not surprised that it sold so well, and am also not surprised that so few games sold better after it.

Should reach 9-10 million copies sold by the end of the year

Kind of funny how the only two games on here not from Nintendo are Monster Hunter games for the PSP

So that means Animal Forest(the proper translation) is at 8 million in Japan already

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>Animal Crossing is the best selling game of all time in Japan

>Pokemon has sold more than Animal Crossing

Also Pokemon Yellow (basically the same game) sold another 14,640,000 units worldwide

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