New Horizons has become the best-selling Animal Crossing. And helped Pocket Camp earn $150 million faster
Animal Crossing is pulling on the main franchise this spring. Released in March, New Horizons not only became the bestseller of the entire series, but also spurred sales of another hit — mobile Pocket Camp.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
For the second day in a row, all new successes of the Nintendo franchise are reported.
The latest big news was the sale of New Horizons. The game sold 13.4 million copies in a month and a half.
The pace for the title from this series is incredibly fast. The previous best-selling project Animal Crossing with the subtitle New Leaf reached a circulation of 12.6 million copies in six years.
Surpassed his Animal Crossing: New Horizons has not only become the main bestseller of the franchise. It also turned out to be the fastest—selling title for Switch – and a source of incessant hype. In social networks, they joke that the game is so popular that it caused the “disappearance” of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
In addition, the success of New Horizons has had a good effect on the mobile game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
We recently wrote that its revenue jumped by 111% after the release of the Switch hit. Yesterday, the Sensor Tower service reported that April was the best month for the title in terms of revenue for all time.
Pocket Camp earned $7.9 million last month. For her, released in October 2017, this is a record. From February to April (inclusive) she raised almost $20 million. And as a result, she broke the earnings bar of $ 150 million from the moment of release.
Nevertheless, Pocket Camp is still the second in the list of the most profitable Nintendo projects on mobile. It is inferior to Fire Emblem Heroes, which earned $656 million by February 2020.
Also on the topic:
- The total revenue of six Nintendo mobile games reached $1 billion. 61% of the amount is for Fire Emblem HeroesRevenue of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp soared by 111%.
- The reason is in New HorizonsSuperData: $10 billion was spent on digital versions of games in March
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