
Animal Crossing (GameCube, 2001): 2.27Mģ9%: Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales as a percentage of total Nintendo Switch sales (31.18M / 79.87M).Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS, 2005): 11.75M.Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, 2008): 4.32M.Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS, 2015): 3.47M.Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival (Wii U, 2015): 490K.


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.
