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Nintendo EAD

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Simulation

Release Dates

06/09/13 Nintendo
11/08/12 Nintendo
06/14/13 Nintendo

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Owners: 59
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Tracked: 6
Wishlist: 8
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) > Opinions (127)

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Machina posted 07/11/2023, 07:51
+10k in the last 6 months.
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Machina posted 09/05/2023, 11:05
+20k in the last 6 months.
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Machina posted 08/11/2022, 04:54
+10k in the last 6 months.
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Maluigi posted 02/02/2021, 01:17
I think 13.5M in the end. Maybe 14M.
(Now 12.82)
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p0isonparadise posted 10/09/2018, 03:28
As of June 30th 2018, New Leaf is now the best-selling AC game with sales of 11.78 million.
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sethnintendo posted 20/11/2017, 01:39
11.23m... Less than one million of Wild World sales. Doesn't look like it will make it but perhaps the android/ios game will give New Leaf sales a small boost while people wait for a Switch version to drop. It'll be interesting to see if it can somehow overtake Wild World sales.
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xboxonefan posted 18/11/2017, 08:22
7th 3ds 10 million seller
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Salnax posted 11/11/2017, 05:46
I guess I was pessimistic about this game.
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sethnintendo posted 03/10/2017, 07:36
Can't believe it has been since 2013 (NA) since this dropped. It is about time a true AC is put on the Switch. They are probably just trying to get a mobile f2p iOS and Andriod version out first to draw attraction or launch around same time. Here is hoping there is no micro transactions in the Switch version...
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Salnax posted 16/08/2017, 04:16
This should break 10 million by 2018, giving the 3DS eight such games. Heck, it's already the biggest 3DS game worldwide that isn't Mario or Pokemon. I can't imagine the Switch iteration being anything less than a system seller.
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NintendoPie posted 04/05/2017, 06:49
10.9 million at the end of FY '17, shipped + digital. Should definitely be at the low-end of 10 million sold in retail I would think.
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PAOerfulone posted 15/04/2017, 09:46
This is the best selling title in Japan for the 8th generation. Even beating Pokemon!
Maybe I rename "Nintendo's Big Three" to "Nintendo's Big Four"
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b00moscone posted 31/01/2017, 09:29
Damn, it may very well reach the 10m!
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fedfed posted 27/01/2017, 11:47
10 mil soon!
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boypita posted 15/09/2016, 07:23
With the release of the new edition "Welcome Amiibo" it´s going to surpass easily "Wild life" and become the best selling AC :)
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Munchies posted 27/08/2016, 03:29
We should expect a tiny boost now that it's getting a Selects reprint.
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fedfed posted 18/08/2016, 03:02
over a million digital... possible?
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bl00dyroar posted 27/07/2016, 02:31
10.11 as of june 30 according to nintendo
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garretslarrity posted 29/04/2016, 01:19
Nintendo has revealed 10.00M as of March 31, 2016! Welcome to the club!
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PAOerfulone posted 02/02/2016, 08:59
9.86 million as of Dec. 31st. 10 million is likely with the next update from Nintendo.
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Munchies posted 11/01/2016, 10:01
Will this ever stop selling?
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S.Peelman posted 30/10/2015, 12:07
Nintendo says 9.44m as of september 30.
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piggychan posted 17/09/2015, 09:08
love those sales. man they should bring this out for wii U with added extras. I would bite again!
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Munchies posted 17/09/2015, 05:29
8 million!
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sethnintendo posted 11/09/2015, 05:09
Yep, starting to doubt my 12m by end of 2016 guess... It has to be close to 10m right now if you include digital sales.
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Ultrashroomz posted 09/09/2015, 12:58
@b00moscone Cause once you play AC, you'll want to punch a raccoon IRL.
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b00moscone posted 02/09/2015, 01:16
Why is the genre for this "Action"? =_=
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NintendoPie posted 28/06/2015, 11:18
This is now at 8.94 including eShop sales. I don't know if I'd say it is under-tracked by too much because digital sales are supposedly massive.
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Munchies posted 04/02/2015, 07:50
Oh, well, I was close. It'll probably take a year and a half for this to hit 10 million copies.
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garretslarrity posted 29/01/2015, 03:23
Nintendo has revealed that this game has sold (shipped + digital) 8.73M units from launch to the end of 2014. When do you think it will join the 10M club?
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Munchies posted 09/01/2015, 04:22
Something tells me this is above 9 million.
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ExplodingBlock posted 08/01/2015, 11:18
Beast sales in Japan
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tak13 posted 03/01/2015, 02:12
It was at 450k as of may 22th 2014 in France and here it is at 450k as of december 6th
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tak13 posted 03/01/2015, 02:11
It was at 450k as of may 22th 2014 in France and here it is 450k as of december 6th...
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Clyde32 posted 19/12/2014, 06:10
This game appears to be undertracked in France. Weekly really.
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Munchies posted 11/11/2014, 04:28
7 million!
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AngryAztec posted 16/07/2014, 05:37
Nintendo reported the 7.3 million figure back in January, during their financial report. It's been what? 7 months now? And yet VGChartz is STILL undertracking the game.
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NintendoPie posted 20/03/2014, 04:30
7.3 million copies, although that is with digital sales. If we include the ~1 Million number from Japanese digital downloads this game has already outsold Wild World there.

However, even without digital sales VGC is still undertracking this game in Japan. Should show that it has already crossed the 4 Million mark by now.
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AngryAztec posted 19/03/2014, 11:24
VG CHARTZ is under-tracking this game ~ Nintendo just revealed the official current sales numbers of this game: 7.3 million copies have been sold so far.
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NintendoPie posted 18/03/2014, 04:47
It's expected that this would sell less than Wild World. However, it's definitely not selling bad. I would say it has an eventual shot at 10 Million, especially if legs keep holding up for Japan.
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fluky-nintendy posted 17/03/2014, 04:56
Outside Japan, numbers do disappoint me when compared to animal crossing. Legs also leave much to be desired
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fluky-nintendy posted 17/03/2014, 04:55
Outside Japan, numbers do disappoint me when compared to animal crossing. Legs also leave much to be desired
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knocturnal2435 posted 05/02/2014, 06:17
7.38 million? Game is a beast. Over 1 million in digital sales.
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atma998 posted 03/02/2014, 11:43
Currently at 7.38M sold according to Nintendo.
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sethnintendo posted 03/02/2014, 07:38
Looks like this game should easily pass Wild World in sales. It should be around 9m or so by the end of 2014 with legs carrying it past 12m by 2016.
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garretslarrity posted 30/01/2014, 07:21
Also I forgot to mention those are as of the end of 2013.
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garretslarrity posted 30/01/2014, 07:16
Horribly under tracked. Nintendo has revealed in their latest report that this game has sold 7.38 million worldwide. I should note that this includes digital sales.
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Munchies posted 29/12/2013, 01:13
This game is so undertracked. This has sold at least 7.11 million copies after doing some math based on Nintendo's report and VGC numbers. Massive game. I want to buy this, but it's not my cup of tea.
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bosslug posted 01/11/2013, 07:24
6.5 million sales confirmed by nintendo. 1.5 million digital, that is amazing
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NintendoSupporter<3 posted 16/10/2013, 07:37
5million confirmed next week.
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sethnintendo posted 25/08/2013, 04:21
Boo!! Spam bots stinking up AC:NL wall... I bet this game is almost 6.5m sold when you include digital sales. Supposedly, it was at 5.4m on June 30th.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/07/31/animal-crossing-new-leaf-sales-are-over-5-million-worldwide/
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sethnintendo posted 20/08/2013, 07:58
Game will suck your soul, chew it up, and spit it out. 120+ hours played and still climbing. Soon it will overtake Swapnote for number 1 on playtime. Swapnote playtime mainly so high because of load times and leaving it on by accident. Luckily, they sped up the load times on Swapnote. No wonder they have been taking their time on Miiverse for 3DS. They probably need to get the load times down on 3DS for Miiverse... and there goes my rant...
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manayter posted 15/08/2013, 06:29
It's one of those games that slowly nibbles away at your life and is gradually rising it's way through my Play Time Log.
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Meret posted 15/08/2013, 04:23
Nintendo said this game sold 5,4 million copies worldwide as of june 30,2013. Physical+digital. Great digital seller. And I think it has a chance to break 10M lifetime.
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Ganoncrotch posted 06/08/2013, 05:42
from the increased numbers of 3ds's being sold in the States and in EU this definitely turned out to be a great system seller for Nintendo.
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kopstudent89 posted 04/08/2013, 01:24
@Knocturnal
Those sales included digital. VGC had to adjust it down cause it only tracks physical.
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knocturnal2435 posted 30/07/2013, 04:58
NPD had Animal Crossing, in the month of June, a 5-week sales month, at 505,000. (as per http://www.examiner.com/article/june-2013-npd-nintendo-3ds-and-animal-crossing-new-leaf-top-sales-chart). If you take the first five weeks of sales from this new adjusted figure, it totals 483,000, which isn't much of a difference, but still less than the official NPD numbers.
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acdcste posted 29/07/2013, 11:57
Because it was overtracked. Last npd figures sugested so.
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knocturnal2435 posted 25/07/2013, 06:35
Why was this adjusted down so much in the USA?
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kopstudent89 posted 14/07/2013, 12:42
It's over 5 million with digital. Even as much as 5.5 mil possibly
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pikashoe posted 02/07/2013, 03:30
This is now the best selling game so far this year:D
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sethnintendo posted 27/06/2013, 08:02
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=161240

For anyone on VGC that wants to play AC:NL
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piggychan posted 25/06/2013, 02:04
amazing game. only had for just a little more than 1 week but already clocked up over 100 hours
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anthony64641 posted 25/06/2013, 06:02
i cant wait to get this game!
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Salnax posted 25/06/2013, 02:52
Without any Western sales, this was the biggest non-Mario game on the 3DS. With Western sales, I expect NSMB2 at least to be overtaken eventually.
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acdcste posted 24/06/2013, 06:34
I would say it is probably around 4.6-4.7 knowing how well digital sales did in japan, its only safe to presume they would have performed well digitally in europe and the us, especially since the game is suited to download.
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tbone51 posted 24/06/2013, 04:38
4mil next week confirmed! even though with digital it should of been there already, also the fact that japan is probably over 4mil by themselves :P
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tbone51 posted 18/06/2013, 04:47
Incoming! Countdown to HUGE MEGA GIGANTIC Boost!
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xxbrothawizxx63 posted 15/06/2013, 07:00
Nintendo confirmed that the "animal crossing community" has surpassed 200k (NoA's twitter). They also confirmed that 3DS hardware sales were boosted 400% due to the game's release.
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sethnintendo posted 14/06/2013, 07:12
@piggychan, AC does a lot better on hand held. It would help move some consoles but AC is a bigger system seller on hand helds. Wait till you see the next few weeks of 3DS hardware sales. They are going to get a pretty damn nice bump. Then you got MH4 (Japan) and Pokemon on the way. 3DS will definitely be up YoY in hardware sales.
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piggychan posted 13/06/2013, 10:57
If they did a wii u version the sales on hardware will go up considerably !!
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piggychan posted 13/06/2013, 10:56
Great entry to this series. I am hooked already and hopefully I can find my old friends to play with this and for many years to come.
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sethnintendo posted 13/06/2013, 08:01
Can someone please tell that Seth guy to stop posting so much on this wall...
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sethnintendo posted 09/06/2013, 07:40
Nvm about that last comment. I believe it was just the way the site was showing on the Wii U browser. Looks fine on my PC. Anyways, OH YEAH!!!! Game is finally released in NA!
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sethnintendo posted 09/06/2013, 07:40
Nvm about that last comment. I believe it was just the way the site was showing on the Wii U browser. Looks fine on my PC. Anyways, OH YEAH!!!! Game is finally released in NA!
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sethnintendo posted 04/06/2013, 06:55
Dang the Wii U makes my wall posts look like crap...
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sethnintendo posted 04/06/2013, 06:41
I stand corrected. AC:NL sales in Japan and South Korea sould be near 5m when it launches worldwide. The 3.86m is supposedly from March 31st numbers from Nintendo. So it is now early June which I believe the numbers to be around 4.5m at least.
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sethnintendo posted 02/06/2013, 04:52
It should crack 4m by the time it releases world wide.
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pikashoe posted 06/05/2013, 11:43
this has already sold over 3.8 million copies according to Nintendo. I wonder if it will get to 4 million before the worldwide release.
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sethnintendo posted 10/04/2013, 03:20
Funny thing mentioning NSMB2... That game was the only retail game that I downloaded from eshop (was a promotion for more coins at the time). I wish I had the physical copy of that game instead but not that big of a deal. However, Animal Crossing I will gladly buy from the eshop since I see an advantage of having it always on the system. That way I can keep an eye out for those green spotpass dot notifications.
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acdcste posted 09/04/2013, 07:40
So impressive its still outselling nsmb2 when its only out in one region. I honestly think when this is out in north america and europe that it will sail past it.
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Meret posted 08/04/2013, 09:27
@AshKetchum1992 with digital sales it around 4 million in Japan already. Insane numbers.
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AshKetchum1992 posted 06/04/2013, 10:39
OMG 3 m only in Japan
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tbone51 posted 26/03/2013, 06:21
Its about the same, it'll go up week ending march 24th. LM2 coming out
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Otakumegane posted 25/03/2013, 09:28
Starting to drop a bit. I wonder if it's a bit saturated right now.
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tbone51 posted 25/03/2013, 08:00
@salnax: dont forget about NSMB2!
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Salnax posted 23/03/2013, 11:12
This won't be the 3DS's first 10 million seller; MK7 and SM3DL are each only about 2 million from that mark. But this very likely WILL sell 10 million+ lifetime. That's nothing to sneeze at.
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acdcste posted 18/03/2013, 10:26
Going to overtake nintendogs and cats this week. Incredible considering its only out in japan. So impressive that its outselling nsmb2 globally when its only in one region. Cant wait to see combined sales when this releases in the rest of the world.
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DieAppleDie posted 18/03/2013, 01:13
this game will sell like 4m+ in Japan alone...
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NintendoPie posted 17/03/2013, 03:21
This game is most likely sitting around 3.5 Million with eShop Sales and DownLoad Cards.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf is performing awesomely on the Japanese Charts!
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ktay95 posted 16/03/2013, 10:41
damn, will this game ever slow down
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Otakumegane posted 11/03/2013, 03:20
A 30% Tie ratio in Japan......just keeps on rising.
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Meret posted 10/03/2013, 03:24
Sold out on Amazon Japan again. INCREDIBLE
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sethnintendo posted 09/03/2013, 08:53
Hey now! You guys are copying my style on praising this game... I must kick my praise into overdrive!
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ljlrj posted 09/03/2013, 06:51
why no one giving credit to this, it's destroying japan. Look at those legs.
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Ljink96 posted 08/03/2013, 09:30
This game has held quite the longevity! Wow, it's been months that I haven't seen this game on the top 10. This game outsold both Marios on 3DS in Japan.
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Shipping Total

13,050,000 Units
As of: September 30th, 2023

Opinion (127)

Machina posted 07/11/2023, 07:51
+10k in the last 6 months.
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Machina posted 09/05/2023, 11:05
+20k in the last 6 months.
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Machina posted 08/11/2022, 04:54
+10k in the last 6 months.
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Maluigi posted 02/02/2021, 01:17
I think 13.5M in the end. Maybe 14M.
(Now 12.82)
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p0isonparadise posted 10/09/2018, 03:28
As of June 30th 2018, New Leaf is now the best-selling AC game with sales of 11.78 million.
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sethnintendo posted 20/11/2017, 01:39
11.23m... Less than one million of Wild World sales. Doesn't look like it will make it but perhaps the android/ios game will give New Leaf sales a small boost while people wait for a Switch version to drop. It'll be interesting to see if it can somehow overtake Wild World sales.
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