Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Now the Best-Selling Game of All-Time in Japan - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 November 2022 / 3,738 Views
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now the best-selling game of all time in Japan, according to a report from Game Data Library.
The previous record holder was Pokémon Red / Green / Blue for the Game Boy with 10.23 million units sold. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has now sold 10.45 million units for the Nintendo Switch.
18 of the 20 best-selling games of all time in Japan are published either by Nintendo or the Pokémon Company, while the other two were published by Capcom (Monster Hunter Freedom 3) and Square Enix (Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies). 19 of the top 20 games were also released on Nintendo platforms, while the one other was released for the PSP (Monster Hunter Freedom 3).
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become Japan's all time best selling game. pic.twitter.com/yonNxSkBkd
— Game Data Library (@GameDataLibrary) November 8, 2022
Nintendo this week reported Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold 40.17 million units worldwide and is the second best-selling game for the Nintendo Switch. This would mean about 35 percent of Switch users have purchased the game.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Nintendo kicks ASS in Japan!
It's interesting that the DS and 3DS Animal Crossing games are also in the top 15 - shows the potential was always there for an Animal Crossing game to top the list.
It's a real shame they already stopped supporting the game, even though the mobile game still gets updated.
As an OG Animal Crossing fan (Gamecube), it warms my heart to see a franchise that had--at one time-- been relegated to weird-niche status reach such peaks.
At the rate things are going the top 5 might end up being 4 Switch games and Pokémon Gen 1 (which will likely keep 2nd place).
Splatoon 3 will be at least 3rd I think.
3rd could very well happen, but I have a hard time seeing it hit 10 mil. Guess we'll see though.
Pokémon: "this is where the fun begins" :V
Any takers on what could possibly dethrone AC:NH?
Animal Crossing: Even Newer Horizon
I'm going to go with Animal Crossing: Cosmic Horizons. It will be a cross between Animal Crossing and No Man's Sky.
Japan would need more population first
Pokemon was finally overtaken? Noooooo :(
Wow, you can bet they are working on a new game for the Next Switch. It hits the right spots for Japan.
That's depressing, there are far better japanese games
Don't worry. At this rate, Splatoon 3 probably has a chance to overtake animal crossing. Top 3 is probably an inevitability.
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