"What if you left everything to live on a desert island?" Placarded in mid-March on bus stops and kiosks, the advertisement for the Animal Crossing New Horizons video game took on a special flavor when France suddenly confined itself to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. With a daily life that has become anxious and the impossibility of going out freely for long weeks, many people have seen this video game as a way of mentally escaping. " Animal Crossing was an escape, in our lives where everything was going wrong, towards a virtual life where everything is cute" , testifies Laura to Figaro .
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She is far from the only one to have sought solace in the game of Nintendo. According to GfK, Animal Crossing New Horizons was the best-selling video game in France in the first half of 2020. A trend observed in Japan, Germany or the United Kingdom. In one month, 13 million copies were sold around the world. Either the best launch for a game on the console
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