Google Translation: 500K of the 2.3M Animal Crossing: New Leaf copies sold are downloads. 22% of all sales being downloads.

Iwata states, unable to hide his surprise, that 'For a game that costs 4800 yen to sell 500,000 copies without a discount because it is a download is quite an event.'

http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZZO50298050V00C13A1000000/

Congrats to Animal Crossing!
Hope this game help to boost 3DS sales in the west.

What the fuck!

That's what I think of your avatar...

Anyway great news, never imagine the digital sales would be so high, guess from now on we should pay more attention to digital sales.

Indeed: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=152157&page=1#10

Huge. Really should have been a WW release for 2012 Holidays.

3DS sales would have been through the roof!

What kind of game it is. I've thought of picking up the DS version back in days but than just wasn't sure. These games barely drop in price too.

Edit: My question was bizzare since i've seen the gameplay videos and reviews. Yet, i question what kind of game it is. Fascinating.

The 1:3 ratio of digital to physical from launch week doesn't seem to have held up, unfortunately, but this is a frighteningly impressive figure nonetheless.
Release this in the West quickly, Nintendo. And advertise it like hell. 500k digital sales in Japan alone in a matter of weeks is record-breaking stuff. If this can be translated to the West to any extent, then this game can singlehandedly carve out a substantial online market for Nintendo.

Damn! Iwata isn't the only one who's surprised! That's amazing!!

Wow. This is a huge accomplishment, saw this from Neogaf though :P