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Japanese retailer says Animal Crossing: New Horizons broke their record for best-selling game of the week for all-time
Geo Corporation has shared their top 10 software sales for the week of March 16th to 22nd, 2020, which you can read in full below.
(New) Animal Crossing: New Horizons [Switch] – Nintendo 3/20/2020
(#1 last week) Nioh 2 [PS4] – Koei Tecmo 3/12/2020
(#4) Pokemon Sword [Switch] – Nintendo 11/15/2019
(#2) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX [Switch] – Nintendo 3/6/2020
(#6) Minecraft [Switch] – Microsoft 6/21/2018
(New) The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III [Switch] – NIS 3/19/2020
(#8) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe [Switch] – Nintendo 4/28/2017
(#9) Splatoon 2 [Switch] – Nintendo 7/21/2017
(#11) Ring Fit Adventure [Switch] – Nintendo 10/18/2018
(#12) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate [Switch] – Nintendo 12/07/2018
Not surprisingly, Animal Crossing: New Horizons took the #1 spot. Here's what is surprising though. GEO says that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now the #1 best-selling Switch software of all-time for their stores, and it's also the the top-selling video game of the week for all-time. No other agme in GEO's retail history has managed to do better in its first week than Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Talk about an insane level of success!