Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Switch lead the way in Australia's game industry sales for 2020

By this point, most Nintendo fans know that the Big N. had a stellar 2020 around the world. We've seen sales reports from all over showing just how big Nintendo's hardware and software were, and that trend continues with numbers from Australia today. Nintendo led the pack in software and hardware, and you can get full details below.

- the best-selling game in Australia was Animal Crossing: New Horizons, even without digital sales included
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 88% more copies in 2020 (boxed only) than it did in 2019
- top publisher of the year (digital and physical) was Nintendo (16% market share)
- Switch sales surged 88% in 2020 over the year before
- Joy-Con sales were up 110% year on year

GSD Annual 2020 Top 20 Video Games (Digital + Physical)

1 Animal Crossing: New Horizons* (Nintendo)
2 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)(EA)
5 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
6 FIFA 21 (EA)
7 Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
8 The Last of Us Part 2 (Sony)
9 NBA 2K20 (2K Games)
10 NBA 2K21 (2K Games)
11 Ghost of Tsushima (Sony)
12 Just Dance 2020 (Ubisoft)
13 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft)
14 FIFA 20 (EA)
15 Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
16 Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo)*
17 Cyberpunk 2077 (Bandai Namco/CD Projekt)*
18 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 (Activision)
19 Minecraft: Switch edition (Mojang)*
20 Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo)*

*Digital data not available

GSD Annual 2020 Top 10 Video Games (Digital)

1 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
2 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision)
3 NBA 2K20 (2K Games)
4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
5 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft)
6 Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
7 NBA 2K21 (2K Games)
8 FIFA 21 (EA)
9 Uno (Ubisoft)
10 FIFA 20 (EA)

GSD Annual 2020 Top 10 Video Games (Physical)

1 Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
2 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)
3 The Last of Us Part 2 (Sony)
4 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
5 Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
6 Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo)
7 Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt/Bandai Namco)
8 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activision)
9 Minecraft: Switch Edition (Mojang)
10 Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo)