Japanese Graphics: Animal Crossing beats Smash Ultimate to become Switch’s best-selling game



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Figures from the Japanese Famitsu letter are now from April 20 to 26, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has broken another record and this is a problem.

The game sold an estimated 283,913 copies in Japan last week, bringing its lifetime sales total in the region to 3.89 million. This means that, in terms of physical sales in Japan (Nintendo doesn’t regularly provide its digital sales data, unfortunately) New Horizons is now the best-selling game on Nintendo Switch, beating Super Smash Bros. Ultimate which is currently at an estimated 3.66 million physical copies sold.

As expected, Animal Crossing also stayed at number one this week, comfortably before the new release, Mana Trials.

Here are the top 10 (the first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):


one) [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} – 283,913 / 3,895,159
2) [PS4] Trials of Mana (Square Enix) {2020.04.24} – 80.383 / NEW
3) [NSW] Mana Trials (Square Enix) {2020.04.24} – 70.114 / NEW
4) [PS4] Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix) {2020.04.10} – 65,569 / 839,074
5) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 15,264 / 2,897,849
6) [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo) {2019.10.18} – 12,351 / 778,943
7) [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Zero – Kai (Nihon Falcom) {2020.04.23} – 10.979 / NEW
8) [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 9,636 / 3,665,504 <80-100%>
9) [NSW] Super mario party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 9,377 / 1,416,280
10) [PS4] Predator: Hunting grounds (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2020.04.24} – 9,172 / NEW


Nintendo Switch hardware sales also experienced a small boost this week, with higher stock levels hitting the shelves than in recent weeks, where distribution has been hit hard. Here are the figures for this week, followed by lifetime sales in parentheses:

Nintendo Switch: 66,609 (11,234,177)
PlayStation 4: 18,123 (7,570,758)
PlayStation 4 Pro: 14,933 (1,513,721)
Xbox One S: 65 (21,210)
Xbox One X: 177 (19,816)

Nintendo Switch Lite: 40,495 (2,164,537)
New Nintendo 2DS LL: 1,690 (1,124,332)
New Nintendo 3DS: 94 (5,887,198)

Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.

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