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 November 2025, the Animal Crossing franchise has sold over 83 million copies worldwide.

Games

Main series

Title	Year	Platform	Market	Sales	Ref
Animal Crossing / Dōbutsu no Mori	2001		Worldwide	2,533,797
Dōbutsu no Mori / Animal Forest	2001	N64	Japan	213,797
	2006	N64	China	50,000*
Animal Crossing	2001	GCN	Worldwide	2,270,000
Animal Crossing: Wild World			Worldwide	11,750,000
Animal Crossing: Wild World	2005	DS	Worldwide	11,750,000
Animal Crossing: City Folk			Worldwide	4,320,000
Animal Crossing: City Folk	2008	Wii	Worldwide	4,320,000
Animal Crossing: New Leaf			Worldwide	13,060,000
Animal Crossing: New Leaf	2013	3DS	Worldwide	13,060,000
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer			Worldwide	3,510,000
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer	2015	3DS	Worldwide	3,510,000
Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival			Worldwide	490,000
Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival	2015	Wii U	Worldwide	490,000*
Animal Crossing: New Horizons			Worldwide	48,620,000
Animal Crossing: New Horizons	2020	Switch	Worldwide	48,620,000
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition	2026	Switch 2	Worldwide	Unknown
Total sales				84,283,797

Spin-offs

Title	Year	Platform	Sales	Ref
Animal Crossing Calculator	2009	DSiWare	Unknown
Animal Crossing Clock	2009	DSiWare
Total Sales			Unknown

Mobile

Title	Year	Platform	Downloads	Revenue	Ref
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp	2017	iOS / Android	65,400,000	$282,000,000
Total Downloads			65,400,000	$282,000,000

Notes

*Contains estimates

• 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 million 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 million 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.