
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a simulation game originally planned for release in 2019. The Nintendo Switch title will be the series’ firth core instalment, following Animal Crossing games on N64 (later ported to GameCube), Nintendo DS, Wii and Nintendo 3DS.
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Switch and Call of Duty come out on top in a record-breaking year for US game sales
$56.9 billion was spent on hardware, content and accessories in 2020
Two-thirds of UK game purchases were digital in 2020
Digital saw a big jump year-on-year, partly influenced by the pandemic
Nintendo Switch has reportedly already outsold PS4 in China
Tencent confirms it’s shipped 1m units since 2019, but far more have sold via grey market channels
Annual UK game sales topped £4 billion for the first time in 2020
Digital game sales alone worth more than the video market and double the music market
VGC’s Game of the Year: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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Nintendo asks businesses to keep politics out of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Platform holder issues software usage guidelines