[GameSpot] - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sold More Than A Million Copies A Day In March

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold beyond Nintendo's expectations, with the publisher announcing that the island-designing sequel sold more than a million copies a day from launch until March 31.

In Nintendo's financial earnings release, the company disclosed that worldwide sales for Animal Crossing: New Horizons have surpassed 13.41 million copies, with 11.77 million of those occurring between its March 20 launch and the closing of Nintendo's FY2020 earnings on March 31. The figures are a combination of physical and digital units.

The figure helped boost Nintendo's overall software and hardware sales for the entire financial year. Between the beginning of April 2019 and the end of March 2020, Nintendo sold through 21.03 million Switch consoles (a combination of regular Switch units and the Switch Lite), an increase of 24% on the previous year. Software sales grew even more, with 168.72 million units sold in the same period--a 42.3% increase year-on-year.

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