Animal Crossing New Horizons is one of the most beloved gaming franchises worldwide and today Nintendo revealed how popular it really is.

Animal Crossing New Horizons launched on March 20th and has since then managed to sell more than 13 million copies of the game within the first 6 weeks of its release alone.

While this is an already a huge achievement for the Animal Crossing franchise the number looks even more impressive when compared to previous installment in the franchise.

Nintendo released a chart to stack ACNH numbers against New Leaf and Wild World and it is clear that New Horizons managed to outsell the lifetime sales of both games within its first 6 weeks.

Animal Crossing New Horizons gets updates for at least 3 more years!

If you aren’t so familiar with the Animal Crossing franchise you might not know that this is a game expected to keep attracting new players for many more years to come. Nintendo recently revealed that the company is planning to update Animal Crossing New Horizons with new features for at least three more years to come!

Cooking, Vegetable Gardening and more shops have recently been found in the code of the game.