Animal Crossing New Horizons Sales

Creature Crossing: New Horizons has broken Nintendo of Europe's get-go-year sales record, it's announced.

Afterward ane twelvemonth on sale, the Nintendo Switch title has become the fastest-selling Nintendo game e'er launched in Europe, it said on Tuesday.

To date, the game has sold over 7 million copies across the continent, both digitally and physically, according to Nintendo'south internal sales data.

According to Nintendo'south latest financial results, New Horizons had sold in 31.18 million copies globally as of December 31, 2020. In comparison, Nintendo Switch sold in 27.3m units during all of 2020 – and Brute Crossing didn't release until March of the same year.

Animal Crossing has broken Nintendo's first-year sales record in Europe.

"We're truly grateful that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been embraced by so many players across Europe," Nintendo of Europe president Stephan Bole said in a prepared statement.

"Brute Crossing has long been a popular franchise in Europe, and its continued growth is due to the love of our fans for this unique serial."

New Horizons was the 2d-all-time-selling concrete game in Europe last year, behind FIFA 21, and reached the top 3 in almost one-half the nineteen countries data house GFK analysed. In France, Animate being Crossing was the virtually successful video game of 2020.

Equally noted by Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad, New Horizons' impressive sales figures suggest that up to 39% of Nintendo Switch owners have bought Animal Crossing.

It as well ways that New Horizons is on its fashion to tripling the lifetime cumulative sales of 12 one thousand thousand for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which was the previous acknowledged entry in the serial.

Animal Crossing remains the 2nd highest-selling Nintendo Switch championship to date – an achievement it managed in mere months – behind Mario Kart eight Deluxe (33.41m), which itself continues to show sales momentum with a farther iv.42m copies sold in the three months to December 31.

Nintendo previously claimed there was a high ratio of digital sales for New Horizons in multiple regions at release, averaging around 50% in Japan, the US and Europe.

Last year, Creature Crossing series caput Hisashi Nogami and New Horizons director Aya Kyogoku discussed the history and time to come of the franchise during an online talk for Japan'south Computer Amusement Developers Conference (CEDEC).

In the wide-ranging presentation, Kyogoku reportedly told attendees that the cardinal to the series' xx-year popularity was its ability to make each instalment dissimilar enough from the terminal, while also retaining the core entreatment of the series.

"While this is the existent pleasure of developing a serial, information technology is likewise the almost difficult point," she said, calculation that the development team had realised over the years that Animal Crossing series "cannot be sustained without change."