Animal Crossing: New Horizons has best first-year sales of any Nintendo game in Europe
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has set the sales charts on fire since its launch a year ago, and the game has now set another record. In an announcement today, it’s revealed that the title is the fastest-selling Nintendo game ever launched in Europe.
Nintendo of Europe president Stephan Bole noted in a statement today:
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UK software sales – March 16, 2021
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UK sales for February 2021
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The UK sales report for February 2021 is in. Once again, Nintendo had a pretty good month.
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury was the best-selling game in the region while Switch games overall accounted for 51 percent of all games sold. Additionally, Nintendo was the top performing boxed publisher thanks to three games in the top five – Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mario Kart 8: Deluxe being the other two.
Switch hardware sales continue to perform strongly. Thus far in 2021, console sales are up 81 percent.
Here’s a look at the top twenty best-selling games of February:
Switch lifetime dollar sales have surpassed the DS in the U.S., now Nintendo’s second best-selling platform in tracked history
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According to the latest NPD report, total lifetime dollar sales of Switch hardware have surpassed the DS in the United States. The system is now Nintendo’s second best-selling platform in U.S. tracked history. Only the Wii ranks higher.
It’s also worth mentioning that Switch is currently the seventh best-selling hardware platform in lifetime U.S. dollar sales.
In February, Switch was again the best-selling hardware platform in both units and dollars in the U.S. The console’s unit and dollar sales were the highest for any hardware platform in a February month since the Wii in February 2009.
February 2021 NPD: Best-selling games on Switch, year-to-date, last 12 months
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Another round of data is in from this month’s NPD report. Along with the best-sellers on Switch specifically for the month of February 2021, we also have a list of the games year-to-date and have sold the best over the last 12 months. Continue on below for the full results.
February 2021 NPD: top 20 best-selling games in the U.S. – Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is #1
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NPD Group has released a listing of the top twenty best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of February 2021. The results can be found below.
Famitsu software sales (3/1/21 – 3/7/21) – Top 30
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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 53,603 / 476,387
2. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town – 33,677 / 236,073
3. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 31,760 / 2,006,555
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 20,197 / 2,433,274
5. [NSW] Bravely Default II – 19,841 / 112,902
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 14,684 / 3,714,231
7. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 12,052 / 4,187,325
8. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 11,731 / 6,681,145
9. [NSW] Pokemon Sword/Shield – 10,094 / 3,990,761
10. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,760 / 1,843,633
Famitsu sales (3/1/21 – 3/7/21)
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UK software sales – March 7, 2021
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Update (3/8): Posted updated with the top 40.
Original: (3/7): This week’s UK software sales, and there’s a little bit of interesting news concerning some of Nintendo’s Switch games.
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury took the top spot for the fourth straight week, though its sales lowered slightly by 18 percent. There were increases for other games, including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (up 7 percent), Super Mario 3D All-Stars (up 36 percent), and even Super Mario Odyssey (up 5 percent). Animal Crossing: New Horizons also increased significantly, rising from #7 to #3 thanks to a 40 percent sales boost.
In other news, Bravely Default II decreased from #11 to #33 with a 74 percent drop. Persona 5 Strikers is no longer in the boxed charts.
Here’s a look at the best-selling games in the UK over the past week:
Top 35 best-selling Switch games in Japan through first four years
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This week, Switch officially turned four years old. Japanese magazine Famitsu celebrated the milestone with a special feature in its latest issue. A list was published as part of that, which shows the top 35 best-selling Switch games so far.
Despite only releasing last year, Animal Crossing: New Horizons took the top spot – and it wasn’t really close. Well over six million copies have been sold in Japan, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the next closest at just over four million.
Here’s the full list:
