Animal Crossing New Horizons

In a way, 2020 has felt like a pretty quiet year on the Nintendo front, but that doesn’t mean Switch owners have run out of content. We could argue that the opposite is true, in fact, especially if you’re using this little pause in major new releases to pick up games that might have been lost, and that’s exactly what players in Japan have been up to.

Nintendo released a list of the 30 best-selling games on Switch eShop during the first half of 2020. There are two graphics, one for retail game downloads and one for digital exclusives, and as you can see, many games that originally launched in years Past are still doing business today.

Thanks to Perfectly Nintendo for compiling these lists:

Most Downloaded Switch Retail Games (January – June 2020)

  1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo) [20.3.2020]
  2. Clubhouse games: 51 world classics (Nintendo) [05.6.2020]
  3. Human: fall flat (Teyon Japan) [28.12.2017]
  4. Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) [21.7.2017]
  5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) [28.4.2017]
  6. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) [07.12.2018]
  7. NBA 2K20 (Take-Two Japan) [06.9.2019]
  8. Pokémon Mysterious World: Rescue Team DX (The Pokémon Company) [06.3.2020]
  9. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Level 5) [20.9.2019]
  10. Minecraft (Mojang / Microsoft Japan) [21.6.2018]
  11. Layton’s Mysterious Journey: Katrielle and the DX Millionaires Conspiracy (Level 5) [09.8.2018]
  12. Xenoblade Chronicles: Ultimate Edition (Nintendo) [29.5.2020]
  13. Overcooked! two (Team17) [07.8.2018]
  14. Pokémon sword (The Pokémon Company) [15.11.2019]
  15. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) [03.3.2017]
  16. Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo) [27.12.2019]
  17. Super mario party (Nintendo) [05.10.2018]
  18. Boxing Fitness (Imagineer) [20.12.2018]
  19. Beneath the tale (8-4) [15.9.2018]
  20. Pokémon shield (The Pokémon Company) [15.11.2019]
  21. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (Capcom) [25.8.2017]
  22. Fire Emblem: three houses (Nintendo) [26.7.2019]
  23. Mana tests (Square Enix) [24.4.2020]
  24. Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl – Gold (Level 5) [12.4.2018]
  25. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Ultimate Edition (Square Enix) [27.9.2019]
  26. Kotoba no Puzzle Mijipittan Encore (Bandai-Namco) [02.4.2020]
  27. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Mega 39’s (SEGA) [13.2.2020]
  28. Super mario maker 2 (Nintendo) [28.6.2019]
  29. Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo) [31.10.2019]
  30. Yo-kai Watch 1 for Nintendo Switch (Level 5) [10.10.2019]

Most downloaded digital switch sets (January – June 2020)

  1. Minecraft dungeons (Mojang / Microsoft Japan) [26.5.2020]
  2. Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix) [26.3.2019]
  3. Futari’s! Nyanko Dai Senso (Ponos) [20.12.2020]
  4. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R (The arc system works) [16.5.2019]
  5. Of sand and mice -Reviewed- (The arc system works) [21.12.2017]
  6. Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation (Square Enix) [27.9.2019]
  7. Final Fantasy IX (Square Enix) [14.2.2019]
  8. Cuphead (StudioMDHR) [18.4.2019]
  9. Nice job! (Nintendo) [26.3.2020]
  10. Oumori Charisou DX (spicysoft) [08.2.2018]
  11. resident Evil 6 (Capcom) [31.10.2019]
  12. Puzzle & Dragons Gold (GungHo online entertainment) [15.1.2020]
  13. Ultimate Chicken Horse (Intelligent effort games) [25.9.2018]
  14. Gnosia (Petit Depotto) [30.4.2020]
  15. Final Fantasy VIII remastered (Square Enix) [03.9.2019]
  16. Dragon Quest X All-in-One Pack (Square Enix) [14.5.2020]
  17. Goonya fighter (Mutan) [27.6.2019]
  18. Dead cells (Twin movement) [07.8.2018]
  19. Driving together (Northplay) [13.6.2019]
  20. Overcooked! Special edition (Team17) [12.10.2017]
  21. Bad resident 5 (Capcom) [31.10.2019]
  22. Cities: Skylines Nintendo Switch Edition (Interactive paradox) [14.9.2018]
  23. 10 returns from the second race (Flat) [21.12.2017]
  24. Catch them! Goldfish Scooping (Editor D3) [02.8.2018]
  25. Stardew valley (Worried) [11.1.2018]
  26. Kuukiyomi: Consider it! (G mode) [30.8.2018]
  27. Tick ​​Tock: a tale for two (Other interactive stories) [05.12.2019]
  28. Kuukiyomi: Consider it more! – New Age (Mode G) [26.9.2019]
  29. Invisigun Reloaded (Sombr Studio) [05.9.2019]
  30. Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line (Square Enix) [27.9.2019]

Any surprise on these lists? We can’t beat the huge popularity of Human: Fall Flat with the Japanese public …

[source nintendo.co.jp, via perfectly-nintendo.com]