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[PAOerfulone]

TheBlackNaruto said:

PAOerfulone said:

According to Nintendo: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/3ds.html New Leaf sold close to 11 million at the end of March (It has passed it by now) and is closing in on Wild World and could reach 12 million. If we're talking strictly PS4, I doubt the PS4 version of RDR2 will outsell AC: Switch by itself, combined with all the other verisons yes, but we're talking about PS4 specifically. God of War? Nope. Spiderman? Nope. Gran Turismo? It's got a chance. Gran Tursimo 4 sold 11.66 on the PS2 when it came out in the middle of the PS2's life cycle. I would expect Sport to sell around that number. Last of Us? Perhaps.
I'll admit, I went a little overboard when I said it wouldn't come close to Animal Crossing, but it's certainly not going to be a walk in the park.
And the Switch will see a jump. The system that it could be compared to is the 3DS, which jumped 1 million from launch year to peak year, but the Switch doesn't have any of the problems the 3DS had that is holding it back. (3D effect, overpricing, weak launch) and I don't think it will experience the software droughts that plagued the 3DS and Wii U. So I think the future looks very bright for the Switch.

 1. At the bolded those are the two the DS one and 3DS one that sold AMAZING lol. But none of the others did. The next closest one was the Wii and that was at like 5 mil maybe less. That's why I said why would none of those games be able to sell close to Animal Crossing? Are yous aying it is guranteed that a New Animal crossing will sell 11-12 million? Because if not then yes A LOT of those mentioned games have a shot at not only coming close to Switch numbers but surpassing them.

2. Just using VGC numbers for instance and 6 Animal crossing games the average is about 5.6 million. So yeah almost all of those games have a very good shot at that. Now as far as the Switch goes again it does not have any of the issues the 3DS has but of course it has some challenges to face. Every system does.....that's why I want to wait and see how it does July/August if stock and demand has caught up to get a better idea of the level of Switch sales. I truly hope it keep selling amazingly well. I plan on getting mine this fall if there is a good bundle and if not DEFINITELY when the New Pokemon game comes out!

I think that can be chalked up to the difference between console and handheld audiences. 
DS - 12 million --> Wii: 4.5 million --> 3DS: 11 million. (Including close to 5 million in Japan alone, which is the highest selling game of the 8th generation over there, even more than Pokemon X/Y.)
That drop and then spike isn't just a mere coincidence in my view. It's clear that Animal Crossing is at its strongest as a handheld series. Plus, out of those 6 games, two fo them were spinoffs, one of them is Amiibo Festival, which was released on the Wii U when the system was already dead in the water, plus it had the amiibo paywall going against it. But the other one, Happy Home Designer, a spinoff, has outsold the original on the GameCube, and if we factor in digital sales, Nintendo said it was at 2.02 million as of Sept. 30th, 2015, and VGC had it at around 1.3 million - so that's .72 digital sales that were unaccounted for. If we add those sales, that brings Happy Home Designer to 4 million copies sold, and it's most likely much higher than that since it has had a year and a half since then to add even more digital sales. Chances are that if it hasn't already, Happy Home Desinger will pass City Folk on the Wii as well. So that would be around 4.5 million copies sold for a SPINOFF. And given the hybrid nature of the Switch, I think Animal Crossing for Switch will do just fine, it could potentially be the highest selling game in the series if Nintendo plays their cards right.