Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons[a] is a 2020 life simulation game created and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth main game in the Animal Crossing series. In New Horizons, the player controls a character who moves to a deserted island where many anthropomorphic animals live.
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Developer(s) | Nintendo EPD |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Aya Kyogoku |
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Artist(s) | Koji Takahashi |
Writer(s) | Makoto Wada |
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Series | Animal Crossing |
Platform(s) | Nintendo Switch |
Release | March 20, 2020 |
Genre(s) | Social simulation |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Animal Crossing New Horizons was very successful. It sold 31 million copies worldwide. It also broke the console game record for most digital units sold in a single month by selling five million copies. It became successful because of the stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Known in Japan as Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 468: attempt to index field 'scripts' (a boolean value).
References
- ↑ Bundel, Ani (March 29, 2020). "'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' is the coronavirus distraction we needed". NBC News THINK. Archived from the original on March 30, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.