This article was originally written for TheNintendoVillage.com, a website I founded and ran from 2018 to 2021.

The numbers from Nintendo’s latest financial briefing have arrived and, in a surprise to absolutely nobody, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been a roaring success.

In the short time the game has been sale it has already managed to shift 13.41 million units across physical, digital and bundled releases, surpassing the 12 million sales Animal Crossing New Leaf managed across it’s lifetime. That translates to 11.77m units in the 11 days it was available in March.

The numbers put the game as the 7th biggest seller on Switch, already outstripping Splatoon 2 and Super Mario Party which both have now sold a little over 10 million.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still rules the roost so far as Switch is concerned, with it’s current sellthrough now standing at 24.77 million units - not a million miles away from maintaining it’s 50% attach rate, with the Switch itself now having sold 55.77 million units worldwide.

Here’s the top ten sellers on Switch as they stood at the end of March:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (24.77 million units)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (18.84m)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (17.41m)
Super Mario Odyssey (17.41m)
Pokémon Sword and Shield (17.37m)
Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu and Eevee (11.97m)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (11.77m)
Splatoon 2 (10.13m)
Super Mario Party (10.10m)
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (6.60m)

Source: Nintendo