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Animal Crossing: New Horizons becomes the 2nd all time best selling game in Japan, on course to dethrone Pokemon Red/Blue/Green

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Following its March 20 launch, the newest installment in the Animal Crossing series on Nintendo Switch has sold-in 7.15 million units in Japan as of June 30 according to Nintendo (1,2), making it one of the 12 only games to have ever sold more than 5 million units there:

[FCM] Super Mario Bros. <ACT> (Nintendo) {1985.09.13} (¥4.900) - 6.810.000
[GMB] Pokemon Red / Green <RPG> (Nintendo) {1996.02.27} (¥3.900) - 8.220.000
[GMB] Pokemon Gold / Silver <RPG> (Nintendo) {1999.11.21} (¥3.800) - 7.300.000
[GBA] Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2002.11.21} (¥4.571) - 5.400.000
[NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World <ETC> (Nintendo) {2005.11.23} (¥4.571) - 5.350.000
[NDS] More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain? <HOB> (Nintendo) {2005.12.29} (¥2.540) - 5.100.000
[NDS] New Super Mario Bros. <ACT> (Nintendo) {2006.05.25} (¥4.571) - 6.490.000
[NDS] Pokemon Diamond / Pearl <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2006.09.28} (¥4.571) - 5.850.000
[NDS] Pokemon Black / White <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2010.09.18} (¥4.571) - 5.540.000
[PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 <ACT> (Capcom) {2010.12.01} (¥5.524) - 5.300.000
[3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf <ETC> (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.571) - 5.790.000 (as of December 31, 2018)
[NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons <ETC> (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} (¥5.980) - 7.150.000 (as of June 30, 2020)

Since then, it has sold-through an additional 300k units at retail according to Famitsu, implying that it took the 2nd place from Gold / Silver and is now only behind the original Pokémon games: Red and Green at 8.22 million units. The game is still selling over 50k units every week and continues to be the main driving force behind the insanely high demand for the Switch.





Game has not yet had a single holiday season.

Congratulations to Aya Kyogoku and her team!

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Lord Fanny

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Damn, and I remember people talking about all those JRPGs (Nioh 2, P5R and FF7R) coming to gang up on AC because they all released very close to it lol. All of those games have done well for themselves in the end, but this franchise really was on an entirely different level than all of them.
 
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What's more shocking to me is the fact that the best selling game of all time in Japan only sold 8.3 million copies there. Don't get me wrong, 8.3 is a big number, but still.

To stay on topic though, I think AC has a huge chance of surpassing it for sure!
 
Heruderu

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I told my friends time and time again this game would break records and they didn't know the power of this franchise...

But I wasn't expecting it to be like this. This is nuts!
 
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Lord Fanny said:
Damn, and I remember people talking about all those JRPGs (Nioh 2, P5R and FF7R) coming to gang up on AC because they all released very close to it lol. All of those games have done well for themselves in the end, but this franchise really was on an entirely different level than all of them.
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The joke was that a bunch of games were being delayed out of that period to avoid competing with AC
 
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ShinobiBk said:
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The joke was that a bunch of games were being delayed out of that period to avoid competing with AC
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Only one of those games got delayed out of that time period in FF7R, and then only a month. So no, I don't think it was lol. I mean, maybe it was the joke to some people, but others definitely thought it was the other way around.
 
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The crazy thing is that it feels like Nintendo left a lot of money on the table releasing their amiibo and amiibo cards for those way less popular spinoff titles than for this mainline release.
 
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Lump said:
The crazy thing is that it feels like Nintendo left a lot of money on the table releasing their amiibo and amiibo cards for those way less popular spinoff titles than for this mainline release.
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Yeah, would have been interesting to see how those would have done had they released those alongside New Horizons instead of amiibo festival. Not sure it would have made a huge difference, since amiibos are sort of done and I don't know if the AC fanbase would translate into toys, but definitely would have been interesting to see what would happen.
 
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Lump said:
The crazy thing is that it feels like Nintendo left a lot of money on the table releasing their amiibo and amiibo cards for those way less popular spinoff titles than for this mainline release.
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The funny thing about that is that the dev team made Amiibo Festival as a reason for Animal Crossing amiibo to even exist.
 
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Man.. Tbone5189 ..i thought..he is right..but i go all in..Team Ryng™ here.

To the people who think 10-10.99m:
In 3.5 months we have 7.15m..without ACNH first holiday...plus AC always has great legs...there is literally no way it will sell just 2.85-3.85m in it's entire lifetime - and we have years ahead of lifetime for the Switch.

Just crazy to see myself saying that, but 15m seems somehow reasonable.
 

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Ryng™ said:
Well, i just hope people understand why in my video i was so sure that 10 million was the absolutely worst scenario. ;)

Will easy reach 12 million, now for 15 million, that's still a gigantic number, but i always said it's possible, so... will see, it's looking more likely every times.
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Thanks that was great!

I don't understand the conservatism either, it's just sales predictions for fun. Right or wrong, its no big deal.

It's not an Era exclusive problem though, I've been on sports stats boards and box-office boards and the the same "avoid disappointment" sentiment prevails, even in the face of logical bullish predictions.
 
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Ryng™ said:
Well, i just hope people understand why in my video i was so sure that 10 million was the absolutely worst scenario. ;)

Will easy reach 12 million, now for 15 million, that's still a gigantic number, but i always said it's possible, so... will see, it's looking more likely every times.
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Watched your video. Great Video, grazie;)
But now you have to make a new video, like you said in your video, after the number is 7.15m;)
 
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I picked 15M+ just to go all in, but I'm shocked to see <12M to be the majority. It'll probably be at around 10M by the end of this year, and Animal Crossing is an insanely leggy series so it has years to go.
 
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"Conventional wisdom" would tell us that this is impossible as the Japanese market is in uncontrollable decline and it's not possible to have a game cater to both Japanese and International audiences.
 

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Whats even more impressive to me is that 11 out of the 12 highest selling games of all time in Japan are all nintendo titles.
 
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Cow Mengde said:
Wait, so Dragon Quest games are no longer the best selling games in Japan?
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They never were by units sales. However it's possible that they were by revenue in yen, as their price would go really high: Dragon Quest 6 sold 3.2 million units with an official price of ¥11.400 and Dragon Quest 8 sold 3.8 million units with an official price of ¥9.240, potentially putting them as the 2 best-selling games of all time by revenue in Japan. That is before New Horizons came along of course, over 7 million units at ¥5.980 puts it well above those two games. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (even without including DLCs) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe are both very likely to surpass DQ8 and DQ6 as well.
 
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Amazing Nintendo domination in the top 20. I can't believe there isn't a single PS2 game in that list.
 
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sphagnum said:
Amazing Nintendo domination in the top 20. I can't believe there isn't a single PS2 game in that list.
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seeing how high the 2 Monster Hunter games are really shows how much Sony fucked up with buggering the Vita considering these are the only 2 non nintendo platform games in the list
 
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lmao if New Horizons becomes both the best selling game of all time in Japan and the best selling Switch game worldwide.

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Amazing Nintendo domination in the top 20. I can't believe there isn't a single PS2 game in that list.
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Best selling PS2 game is Dragon Quest VIII at 38.

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Game Data Library - List of Million Sellers

[GB] Pokémon Red - 4.180.000 [GB] Pokémon Green - 4.040.000 [GB] Pokémon Blue - 2.010.000 [GB] Pokémon Silver - 3.640.000 [GB] Pokémon Gold - 3.530.000
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Zyrox

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I knew this was gonna be very popular but it exceeded even my expectations. Like holy smokes.
 
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the chart is mostly Super Mario/Pokemon/Animal Crossing chart with some guests.

all things considered it's pretty weird how Mario Kart is nowhere that chart even though it is bigger than all the series in it worldwide.
(though, if you combine 8 Wii U and 8 Deluxe, it would be close to the top 10)
 
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