Animal Crossing sells historic 22.44 million copies in just 14 weeks

Animal Crossing: New Horizons just sold more copies in a single quarter than most AAA games sell in their lifetime.

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Nintendo's Q1 earnings are astronomical; the company's profits are up 541% to $989 million on the back of $3.3 billion in net sales. Switch made up $3.2 billion of net sales, or 92% of total earnings. Nintendo sold 5.67 million Switch consoles in Q1, more than twice any other Q1 in history, and beat all Q2 regions too.

Software is up a tremendously 123% to 50.4 million units, pushing total cumulative Switch software to 406.67 million, which beats the 3DS' lifetime software.

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This huge push was driven by game sales. In particular, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which sold 10.63 million units in a single quarter.

Total New Horizons sales now sit at 22.4 million, and takes the #2 spot in Nintendo's top 10 best-selling Switch games. This feat that was achieved in 14 weeks on the market.

For perspective, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has 26.74 million sales after 164 weeks on the market.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons key facts:

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the fastest-selling Switch game of all time (22.4 million in 14 weeks).
• New Horizons sold 10.63 million units in one quarter.
• The new Animal Crossing made up 21% of Nintendo's total quarterly game sales (Q1 total is 50.43 million).
• The game has outsold lifetime sales of Final Fantasies 8, 10, 13, and 15, as well as Resident Evil 2, 5, 6, and 7.

Digital was a huge part of these game sales due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Digital made up 56.6% of total game sales earnings, or $939 million. This represents a tremendous 229% spike in digital earnings year-over-year, a lot of which was driven by Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Nintendo's top 10 Switch game sales look like this:

1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe -26.74 million
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 22.4 million
3. Super Smash Bros> Ultimate -19.99 million
4. Breath of the Wild - 18.6 million
5. Pokemon Sword/Shield - 18.22 million
6. Super Mario Odyssey - 18.06 million
7. Pokemon Let's Go -12.2 million
8. Super Mario Party - 10.94 million
9. Splatoon 2 -10.71 million
10. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 7.44 million