Animal Crossing: New Horizons is currently causing real hype. Now a blatant forecast has emerged that shocked every player and press.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the fifth installment in the Nintendo series
- The game was released on March 20, 2020 for the Nintendo Switch
- Now an analyst is making a shocking prediction about Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Hamburg / Kyoto - There is hardly any other game that is currently as much talked about as the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons * - not even a week on the market and everyone feels fascinated by the cute characters of the Nintendo Switch game . Let's Plays are booming not only on Twitch *, but also on YouTube , but just now an analyst is making a shocking forecast about Animal Crossing: New Horizons .
Animal Crossing New Horizons (Nintendo): Analyst turns shock forecast into switch game
The sales figures for the fifth part of the Animal Crossing series are currently overflowing. The new Animal Crossing: New Horizons is not just a simple life simulation on the Nintendo Switch , the game hides a lot of elements that currently delight many gamers. If you already liked the previous parts of the Nintendo game, you will get your money's worth with the new part, which is not exactly cheap at just under 60 euros.
Animal Crossing NH (Nintendo): Everyone is shocked by this forecast
© Nintendo screenshot
But even the high price of the Nintendo game doesn't deter gamers from getting Animal Crossing . In the UK, the game even caused really surprising numbers: The British market is said to have actually sold more copies than all previous parts of the simulation game. The past part of Animal Crossing: New Leaf definitely can't keep up. Although this has so far held the record, the new part has made a start that is three and a half times as good as that of its predecessor.
Animal Crossing New Horizions (Nintendo Switch): Apparently sales increased due to corona virus
But what makes the game so successful? Some gamers suspect the current exit restrictions due to the corona virus as a significant success factor of Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Fittingly, you can go on a kind of virtual vacation with the game, which is not possible due to the large spread of Covid 19 disease . Not only can you let off steam with your figure on an island, but you can also fish extensively, collect fossils and catch butterflies.
The manufacturer therefore apparently advertises to the coronavirus crisis with the "Ripe for the Island Package" , which gives Nintendo Switch players a balance to the restricted domestic situation, as does our ten game tips against boredom in coronavirus quarantine *, about which ingame.de * already reported. Because in the UK, the game just released is currently the number one in the weekly charts, according to the English platform Gamesindustry.biz. This tremendous success then brought the independent game analyst Benji Sales on the scene. This made a pretty surprising statement about Animal Crossing: New Horizons .
Animal Crossing New Horizons (Nintendo): Analyst makes surprising statement about Switch-Game
In a post on Twitter, the video game analyst commented on the sales figures: The predecessor Animal Crossing: New Leaf was the most successful game in the series to date. The game was sold around twelve million times. But the analyst is pretty sure that the new Nintendo part "will sell more than twelve million copies within the next few months". Because Benji Sales anticipates even greater success than gamers and other analysts suspected at the start of the launch.
Whatever your optimistic sales expectations for Animal Crossing New Horizons launch sales were, I can already tell you it's too low
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He also backed off from an initial forecast and made another very surprising statement: His assumption at the time that the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons would make it into the top 5 of the best switch launches was definitely wrong. Rather, the current Nintendo game from Kyoto would make the leap into the top 3 largest gaming launches ever. At this point, however, it is too early to say whether this forecast will actually come true and remains open.
Fans of the series partly confirm this forecast. They are enthusiastic about the new game and so fan videos * for Animal Crossing: New Horizon are already being made diligently. In our guides you can find all tools *, insects * and residents * at Animal Crossing: New Horizons . However, some of them are angry with animal rights activists. Recently PETA * got involved and criticized fishing in the new Animal Crossing.
Source: ingame.de
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Rubric list image: © Nintendo screenshot