Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing, known as Dōbutsu no Mori (どうぶつの森 ?, lit. Animal Forest) in Japan, is a life simulation video game franchise made by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan for the Nintendo 64 on April 14, 2001. Due to the drastically decreasing N64 market, the game was not released for the N64 outside Japan. The game was then ported to the Nintendo GameCube in Japan on December 14, 2001; North America on September 15, 2002; Australia on October 17, 2003; and Europe on September 24, 2004. As of June 2024, the Animal Crossing franchise has sold over 81.45 million copies worldwide.

Games

Year	Platform	Title	Sales (millions)	Ref
2001	N64	Animal Forest	0.21
	GCN	Animal Crossing	2.27
2005	DS	Animal Crossing: Wild World	11.75
2008	Wii	Animal Crossing: City Folk	4.32
2013	3DS	Animal Crossing: New Leaf	13.05
2015	3DS	Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer	3.51
	Wii U	Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival	0.49*
2020	Switch	Animal Crossing: New Horizons	45.85
Total sales			81.45

Mobile

Year	Platform	Title	Downloads (millions)	Revenue (millions)	Ref
2017	iOS/Android	Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp	65.40	$282.00

Notes

• *include VGChartz numbers
• A second version of Animal Crossing was released in Japan for the GCN with e-Reader support on June 27, 2003.
• Animal Crossing: Wild World is the fourth best selling DS game in Japan, with 5.24 copies sold.
• Animal Crossing: Wild World is also the seventh best selling handheld game in Japan.
• Animal Crossing: Wild World is the ninth best selling game in Japan of all time.
• Animal Crossing: New Leaf is the best selling 3DS game in Japan, with over 5.12 copies sold.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the second best selling Switch game.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the best selling game in Japan of all time.
• The first six weeks of of Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold more than each individual Animal Crossing lifetime sales at 13.41 million copies.