PAOerfulone said:
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.
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