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Forums - Sales - Has Any Game Sold to 30 Million Units as Quickly as Animal Crossing Will?

Dulfite on 17 December 2020
Ka-pi96 said:
Dulfite said:

What is the inflation rate this year, just curious? $3 billion from a year from now isn't worth as much as $3 billion now is, and even less than $3billion from a year ago and so on. Also development costs I believe are going up disproportionately.

I believe the inflation rate is around 1.1% this year. So there's barely any difference between 2019 and 2020.

2019 1.81%

2018 2.44%

2017 2.14%

2016 1.26%

These are projected so not sure how final these numbers are. But even if it is just 1.1% that means $3 billion in 2020 is worth $33,000,000 less in value than it was in 2019. I wouldn't say that's hardly any difference haha.



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Jumpin on 01 February 2021

Looks like Animal Crossing is going to come up short unless it pulls off something crazy and sells another 2.7+ million by the end of March. But given no other game is in the stratosphere year 1 sales besides these two, it's probably going to be #1 for a long time with no other potential challengers outside the GTA franchise... Assuming GTA 6 launches in 2023 or later, or shocks and awes everyone and lands a copy on the Switch.



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Wyrdness on 01 February 2021
Jumpin said:

Looks like Animal Crossing is going to come up short unless it pulls off something crazy and sells another 2.7+ million by the end of March. But given no other game is in the stratosphere year 1 sales besides these two, it's probably going to be #1 for a long time with no other potential challengers outside the GTA franchise... Assuming GTA 6 launches in 2023 or later, or shocks and awes everyone and lands a copy on the Switch.

Not sure what you mean as AC has sold 30m already.



pikashoe on 01 February 2021
Wyrdness said:
Jumpin said:

Looks like Animal Crossing is going to come up short unless it pulls off something crazy and sells another 2.7+ million by the end of March. But given no other game is in the stratosphere year 1 sales besides these two, it's probably going to be #1 for a long time with no other potential challengers outside the GTA franchise... Assuming GTA 6 launches in 2023 or later, or shocks and awes everyone and lands a copy on the Switch.

Not sure what you mean as AC has sold 30m already.

I think he's talking about AC versus GTA V first year sales



Wyrdness on 01 February 2021
pikashoe said:
Wyrdness said:

Not sure what you mean as AC has sold 30m already.

I think he's talking about AC versus GTA V first year sales

Ahh ok.



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mk7sx on 01 February 2021
Jumpin said:

Looks like Animal Crossing is going to come up short unless it pulls off something crazy and sells another 2.7+ million by the end of March. But given no other game is in the stratosphere year 1 sales besides these two, it's probably going to be #1 for a long time with no other potential challengers outside the GTA franchise... Assuming GTA 6 launches in 2023 or later, or shocks and awes everyone and lands a copy on the Switch.

I don't think >2.7M is impossible, but definitely on the high end.



Torpoleon on 01 February 2021

Impressive for New Horizons that it is even coming close to GTA V's first year sales. Even if it doesn't surpass GTA, it will at least be close. Of course, GTA V had a significantly larger install base when it first launched. Even now, the Switch install base is less than both the PS3 & 360 separately (will change later this year), so you could find ACNH's sales more impressive. Has GTA V sold 31 m on a single platform up to this point?