Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS, 2015): 3.47M.
Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival (Wii U, 2015): 490K.
35.12 million: Total combined sales for all previous Animal Crossing console games.
30.8 million: Lifetime sales for New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS.
31.38 million: Lifetime sales for Pokemon Red/Green/Blue on the Game Boy.
11.77 million: Number of those sales that came in the game's first 12 days on the market in March 2020.
To show just how incredible it is for an Animal Crossing game to sell 31 million copies, we've gathered some relevant statistics to help put that massive number into context:ģ1.18 million: Sales for Animal Crossing: New Horizons through December 31, 2020 But these new sales numbers show just how much of a phenomenon the latest title has been in driving Nintendo's recent success. Further Reading Parenting in a pandemic: Chaos, control, and an Animal Crossing meltdownWe've written a number of times about why Animal Crossing's chill, landscape-tending gameplay lends itself perfectly to our current stuck-inside-amid-a-pandemic moment.