A lot of Switch players have escaped to their own island in AC: NH.
Tom Nook is celebrating once again, as fresh sales data shows that Animal Crossing: New Horizons remains an absolute must-have for Switch owners.
The island life sim, which arrived just as the world went into lockdown back in 2020, has now sold a staggering 47.44 million copies — an increase of nearly one million units since Nintendo’s last update. It remains the second best-selling game on the system, trailing behind the juggernaut that is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
To put that fresh sales number into perspective, New Horizons now has an attach rate of 31.45%, meaning that almost one in three Switch owners has picked up a copy. A frankly insane attach rate.
With Nintendo’s hardware sales slowing as the Switch approaches the end of its lifecycle, New Horizons remains one of its defining titles — proof that the escapism and appeal of a simple life sim about talking animals, home decor, and crushing debt to a tanuki is still as strong as ever.
With numbers like this, a new entry on the Switch 2 seems all but guaranteed.