Nintendo Switch Console sales are over 3DS, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold 31 million copies

Nintendo has announced that the Nintendo Switch has officially passed the 3DS on December 31, 2020 with 79.87 million console units sold. Additionally, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has reached 31.18 million copies sold.As revealed in Nintendo’s latest financial earnings release for the nine-month period ended December 31, 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting closer to passing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s 33.41 million units sold as the best-selling Nintendo Switch game.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the third best-selling Switch game with 22.85 million copies sold, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s 21.45 million units, Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield’s 20.35 million and Super Mario Odyssey 20.23 million units.

Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield have also become the first Pokemon games to have sold more than 20 million copies since Pokemon Gold and Silver.

During the nine months ending December 31, 2020, titles released in the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2020 have been hugely successful. Super Mario 3D All-Stars sold 8.32 million units, Paper Mario: The Origami King sold 3.05 million units, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity sold 2.84 million units, Pikmin 3 Deluxe sold 1.94 million units and Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit sold 1.08 million units.

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Games released in previous fiscal years also continued to sell well in these nine months, led by Animal Crossing: New Horizons ’19, 41 million copies. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 8.64 million units, Ring Fit Adventure sold 5.95 million units, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold 4.04 million units and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold 4.01 million units.

29 Nintendo Switch titles have sold more than a million copies, including 9 games from other software publishers.

Nintendo Switch hardware sales reached 24.10 million units in this period, which is an increase of 35.8% year-over-year, and software sales reached 176.10 million units, which is an increase of 43 , 0% year-on-year.

It’s also interesting to note that the Nintendo Switch Lite sold 13.53 million copies in its lifetime, which means it has nearly passed the Wii U’s 13.56 million copies.

Digital sales also accounted for 40.9% of all software sales, up 12.3% year-on-year. Digital sales also increased 104.9% compared to 2019.

Mobile and IP revenues were up 13.8% year-over-year.

While we don’t know Nintendo’s full plan for 2021, we have Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Monster Hunter Rise, New Pokemon Snap, and Bravely Default 2 to look forward to in the coming months.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.