“First shipment and digital sell through for Animal Crossing: New Horizons in Japan looks to have exceeded 2.5 million units in its first three days,” claimed Daniel Ahmad on Twitter. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is exclusively available for the Nintendo Switch now, with a day one update releasing days before the game did. While Animal Crossing also tops the UK sales charts, it’s expected to sell well across multiple regions and these sales numbers in Japan have pushed the Nintendo Switch to being the best selling Nintendo console in Japan.
Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad recently claimed on Twitter that Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ total shipments (including digital sales numbers) in Japan apparently exceeded 2.5 million units in the game’s first three days.