No surprise for a lot of people to see that Animal Crossing has secured Nintendo a massive sale jump in the weekly charts.
Bolstered along by sales of nearly 4.5 million copies in Japan, Animal Crossing New Horizons stays on top of the sales charts in Japan. Bringing up the 1st runner up position in Ring Fit for the Nintendo Switch with Final Fantasy VII Remake on the PS4 closing up the top 3.
1. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 129,659 (4,480,117)
2. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 21,963 (905,295)
3. [PS4] Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix, 04/10/20) – 11,229 (908,337)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,286 (2,946,455)
5. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 8,079 (3,417,239)
6. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 7,216 (3,697,918)
7. [NSW] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo, 12/27/19) – 6,588 (229,057)
8. [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,063 (1,387,002)
9. [NSW] Dragon Quest X All In One Package Version 1-5 (Square Enix, 05/14/20) – 5,657 (New)
10. [PS4] Trials of Mana (Square Enix, 04/24/20) – 5,467 (122,753)
Clearly Nintendo is holding a massive lead in the software sales with only 2 titles in the top not coming from the success of the Nintendo Switch. Speaking of , let’s take a look at how hardware sales did this week.
Switch – 27,897 (11,379,561)
Switch Lite – 10,483 (2,214,996)
PlayStation 4 Pro – 4,235 (1,534,754)
PlayStation 4 – 2,006 (7,588,444)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 955 (1,714,162)
New 3DS LL – 73 (5,887,527)
Xbox One X – 20 (20,039)
Xbox One S – 12 (93,271)
Sales are slighty down from previous weeks but that’s only because, as in several other regions, Nintendo hardware is hard to come by lately.
