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Best selling exclusive of 2020?
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TLOU2 had a big launched number with ~4M copies sold but as we have seen in weekly sales chart across the globe in week 4, AC already outpacing TLOU2 in major market like Japan, UK, France, Germany, and etc.
ZZZZ
Member
Between 5-6M is a safe bet according to player numbers.
Edit: LOL at the votes, 57 people actually thought TLOU2 was going to outsell AC, that's crazy.
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turtlepowa
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Wow, i knew TLOU2 never had a chance, but i didn't expect AC to reach 20 million this fast.
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Not even in the holiday season(Q3 is Nintendo biggest quarter) yet and boom 22 million copies milestones achieved in just ~3months lol.
Stilton Disco
Member
Never doubted it for a moment, not only are Nintendo on top form right now, but the two games approach to their audiences made this a a shoe in for the big N.
TLOU2 decided to 'subvert expectations' and sprinkle in both misery and divisive, unpopular political messaging into a sequel for a game that was for a wider mainstream audience.
Nintendo meanwhile ramped up the welcoming warmth and cheerful escapism inherent to Animal Crossing, just at the time people most want to escape the lunacy and awfulness of reality.
TLOU2 decided to 'subvert expectations' and sprinkle in both misery and divisive, unpopular political messaging into a sequel for a game that was for a wider mainstream audience.
Nintendo meanwhile ramped up the welcoming warmth and cheerful escapism inherent to Animal Crossing, just at the time people most want to escape the lunacy and awfulness of reality.
turtlepowa
Banned
One console has double the user base. That should easily compensate for the time disadvantage.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
A similar amount of people thinks the PS4 will sell 150m units. Fanboyism is a hell of a drug.
ACNH already outpacing and outselling TLOU2 after 3 weeks on the market.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
I mean, it will still sell 15m+ copies. It's just that Sony exclusives generally don't sell as well as Nintendo exclusives.
Guardian's Light
Member
Is animal crossing really this good?
I remember playing new leaf, but nothing really clicked, even If I love the sims and Co.
Should I give the series another chance?
I remember playing new leaf, but nothing really clicked, even If I love the sims and Co.
Should I give the series another chance?
turtlepowa
Banned
On PS4 only? I highly doubt this. Maybe together with a super duper enhanced PS5 version.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Yes. Come to the island side, my child
It's not going to sell more than Spidey despite launched higher than Spidey.
TLOU2 leg is already lagging behind Spidey launch aligned.
But with PS5 version it could do that with heavy bundling like TLOU where ACNH sold over 22M at a full price which is insane feat even for multiplatform games.
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darth.shrimp
Member
The lockdown probably helped a lot with those numbers, but damn... 22 millions?
On a side note, out of all the people I know who own a Switch, I think half of them bought AC. I didn't, though, my backlog is already way too big.
On a side note, out of all the people I know who own a Switch, I think half of them bought AC. I didn't, though, my backlog is already way too big.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
It's a chill, feel-good game where you can express your creativity. I never played it for long by my gf's review is essentially "kinda boring but I somehow spent 80 hours playing it".
Thugnificient
Banned
At this point Animal Crossing will run out of Nintendo Switches to be played on lol.
Guardian's Light
Member
FunkMiller
Banned
It's zero surprise that in a world going through one massive catastrofuck after another, people would prefer to lose themselves in a happy, feel good game, rather than thirty hours of morose death, pain and hate. TLOU2 was a good game, but I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than play it again any time soon. Animal Crossing is exactly the type of game that should do well in a fraught, unpleasant environment.
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Stilton Disco
Member
I would be very surprised. It's already shown It's not got the legs and lacks the immediately engaging emotional punch of the first game, nor has there been the universal praise and overwhelmingly positive audience reaction that game enjoyed.
Add to that the lack of need for a PS5 remaster given BC, and I honeslt expect it to struggle to hit 10m.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a monster of a game, but it deliberately chose to cater to a smaller audience than the first one did, so it's inevitably going to end up with far fewer sales.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Why that? Sonys exclusives always sell well.
ZZZZ
Member
Did you look at AC numbers?
ValiantTraveler
Member
26M. That's insane o__O
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Looks like I need to eat crow with my 15m estimate for TLOU2. That game has no legs lmao.
Manji Uzuki
Member
Animal Crossing without doubt. Nintendo is selling copies like crazy worldwide
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
Nintendo making close to 2 billion on something that took almost no money to develop is amazing.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
To be fair just because you throw millions at development does not mean it will produce something worth playing, TLoU2 being a great example of this issue.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
True, look at how Cyberpunk 2077. But that isn't what I meant at all. We've had great games made for less than 1 mil better that shit on all the "funded" games on kickstarter.
Bragr
Banned
Its not the family friendly aspect, but how it appeals to women thats so striking, its hitting that market that the sims hit.
Bragr
Banned
Oh it wasent cheap, nintendo usually have games in long development cycles with smaller teams than the west. Thats why they are so polished.
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