Of the many highly anticipated titles to release last year,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsmade a strong impression on many who played it. With a relaxing environment for players to occupy and explore, a cacophony of memorable characters to interact with, and so much to see and create,Animal Crossing: New Horizonshas a lot to offer players. Although, even after being out for so long now, the game has managed to accrue some impressive sales figures in various parts of the world.
Back when the game first released,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsbecame the fastest selling Nintendo Switch gameever made in a matter of months. Given that the game released right when COVID-19 quarantining was at an all-time high, it wasn’t too hard to understand whyAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsachieved such a large amount of success in such a short time frame. Amazingly, even after being out for over a year, that success has shown no signs of dwindling.
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According to gamesindustry.biz, the highest selling boxed game in the UK last week wasAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, withFifa 21coming in second. The fact that the game has been out for over a year and was ranked at number 2 the week before in terms of highest selling boxed games, is quite impressive, to say the least.
Though, what’s even more surprising is just how manyNintendo Switch gamesoccupied the top ten list in terms of boxed games sold. In addition toAnimal Crossing: New Horizons,Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Ring Fit Adventure,and the Nintendo Switch version ofMinecraftwere all sold a large amount of boxed units in the UK last week.
It is quite stunning to see how much continued successAnimal Crossing: New Horizonscontinues to garner as time goes on. The fact thatAnimal Crossingcharacters are being featured in Build-A-Beargoes to show how the game’s popularity hasn’t come to an end. However, it does beg to question what fans can expect fromAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsgoing forward.
This recent cross-over with Build-A-Bear will be sure to make fans excited, but as far as the game itself is concerned, there potentially could not be much more to look forward to.Animal Crossing: New Horizonshas received numerous content updates over the last year and withAnimal Crossing: New Horizons recently passing its one-year anniversary, there may not be much variance in terms of the kinds of things players can do during these events. Then again, fans will just have to wait and find out.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available now exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
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