So Animal Crossing at 5M physical on Famitsu by the end of the Quarter, the game could very easily be at 6.5M physical by the end of 2020.
This would make it the 4th Best Selling Game in Japan EVER and that's without the digital share. If digital is 20% for the year, the game will ship over 7.8M for making it 2nd only to Pokemon...
Animal Crossing is known for it's legs, New Leaf sold 3.5M in it's 52 Weeks, ended up at close to 6M lifetime.
If New Horizons sells a similar share after it's first 52 weeks on the market... we would be looking at a game that will sell over 12.M copies in Japan lifetime... is that possible?
With DLC, free updates & support for a couple of years. I don't see why it wouldn't - the main question, what is the ceiling?
TOP SELLING GAMES JAPAN ALL TIME:
11. Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP) - 4.850.000
12. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 4.685.419
13. New Super Mario Bros (Wii) - 4.630.000
Right now Animal Crossing New Horizon physical is 33% attach rate, in 11 weeks... crazy how huge this game is in Japan.. not surprising, just crazy
Last edited by noshten - on 04 June 2020
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