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Super Monkey Ball/Yakuza producer Toshihiro Nagoshi shares his thoughts on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the Switch's success

Animal Crossing's success is great for the industry
by rawmeatcowboy
26 May 2020
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Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza producer Toshihiro Nagoshi has taken some time out of his busy schedule to pontificate about the success both the Switch and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have seen so far. He shared these thoughts during a recent SEGANama stream. You can find a summary of what Nagoshi said below.

- Nagoshi mentions how Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales are getting close to 20 million
- he believes this will show there’s a market for similar games
- if digital sales keep rising, it would show there's a new market when it comes to “casual” players buying digital games
- Nagoshi is pretty happy about the situation and how games are doing well, even if not from his own company

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