What will sell more, Animal Crossing Switch or Pokemon Sword/Shield?

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mZuzek said:

melbye said:

I think this Animal Crossing is going to the first time a lot of people buy it. Would not be shocked to see Animal Crossing cross the 20 million mark which is more than what Sword/Shield will sell

No Animal Crossing game has ever crossed the 15m mark. Every single first mainline entry in a Pokémon generation has sold at least 15m.

What exactly makes you think Animal Crossing has more room for better sales than Pokémon does? Pokémon is one of the most widely recognizable franchises in the world, in and outside of gaming. It's known by just about everybody, has had almost a billion downloads on mobile (a figure AC Pocket Camp doesn't come even remotely close to), and for decades has had people dreaming of a home console mainline release, which is finally about to happen, on an extremely successful console whose main releases have all been breaking sales records left and right. Why, exactly, is Pokémon Sword/Shield not going to outdo its predecessors? Honestly I just don't see how. 20m copies sold is pretty much the worst case scenario for Pokémon, whereas it's very much the best case scenario for Animal Crossing.

I just think Nintendo is really going to push this game, more than any Animal Crossing has been pushed before. I fully expect it to be their focus as E3 much like Smash was last year.  There is no reason why with a consistent stream of new content-updates Nintendo can't make it an evergreen title that will sell well until the Switch is replaced