Nintendo continues to put up staggering sales numbers for Switch console and ‘Animal Crossing’

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Nintendo continues to put up impressive numbers for the Switch video game console as well as its hot game title, “Animal Crossing: New Horizons.”

For the quarter ending June 30, Nintendo sold 5.68 million Switch consoles, to bring total sales to a staggering 61.44 million in the three years since its release. The classic NES, released in 1983, sold 61.91 million units.

“Animal Crossing,” the popular animated community-based game that lets users build lives on islands with a virtual society, sold 10.63 million copies last quarter and has total sales of 22.4 million. The game is the second-best selling title of the year so far, behind “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.”

The sales buoy the ongoing notion that people forced to entertain themselves at home during the coronavirus pandemic are turning to video games, among other things. The NPD Group previously called “New Horizons” “the right game at the right time.”

The game helped Nintendo reach software sales of 50.43 million for the quarter — more than double what the company recorded for the same period last year, Endgadget reported.

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