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Animal Crossing New Horizons Becomes Best-Selling Game in Japan

A new report says that Animal Crossing New Horizons is now the top-selling game of all time in Japan. Website Game Data Library has recently posted the numbers it has recorded on Twitter. It is a site that collects Japanese sales data and includes video games. It revealed that Animal Crossing...

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Animal Crossing New Horizons has now sold 10.45 million copies in Japan alone. This has now surpassed one of the long-time record holder Pokemon Red and Green on Game Boy. These games sold 10.23 million copies in Japan.
The site also revealed that the game has reached those numbers despite only launching two years ago. Most of the top ranking games launched over 20 years ago. The other title that has gained fifth place in this particular list is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which launched in 2018.

Many of the top selling games in japan of all time took years to reach their rankings. But in two years Animal Crossing NH beat them all handily.

But it's also worth noting that AC-NH has only sold 10,4M units, which shows that this may be the first breakthrough video game in the country where a large percentage of active game players brought a single game instead of being fragmented, other than the mention Pokemon Red/Blue/Green, the rest are millions away.

But I'm surprised at how popular AC in Japan with just a few games, and Rune Factory flipped out of existence for being that combined with a JRPG. Strange, you'd think that would have sold more as a result.

 

[Woopah]

I don't get the "only 10.4 million" point.

We'll have too see if Splatoon 3 or Pokémon Violet / Scarlet can dethrone New Horizons.

 

[feynoob]

Its the 2nd most sold exclusive game. I woud be suprised if it didnt hit those numbers on japan.

Currently it sold 40m copies.

 

[lh032]

one of the most overrated game of all time.

Bought and play it for quite sometime, and stop.
Too many grindings and their online play design and mechanics is ancient.