Remember two, maybe three years ago when COVID-19 hit and Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out? Hah, what a fun and relatively recent time that was! It feels like only yesterd- wait, five years? New Horizons came out five years ago?? Oh my…
Yep, on 20th March 2020, Nintendo finally unleashed the latest entry in the Animal Crossing series on the world. The series had, historically, put up pretty decent sales numbers — both New Leaf and Wild World are in the top 10 best-selling titles for the 3DS and DS respectively — but New Horizons eclipsed all of that.
A game about going outside and meeting your friends would have had a cute little hook at any time, but released at the start of a pesky little curio called a global pandemic, the interest jumped to another level. In its first six weeks, New Horizons had outsold every other entry in the series, and it has since gone on to shift a whopping 47.77 million copies — beaten only by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in the list of Switch best-sellers.
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