Wow, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales are through the roof Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Wow, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales are through the roof Biggest launch of the series, second biggest Switch launch ever. News by Tom Phillips Deputy Editor Updated on 23 Mar 2020 36 comments Nintendo Switch exclusive Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an enormous sales success. It dominated the UK boxed game chart - and sold triple the amount of boxed copies of Bethesda's multi-platform Doom Eternal, which had longer on sale. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the second biggest launch on Nintendo Switch ever, behind Pokémon Sword and Shield. But if you count those games' totals separately, New Horizons is actually top. It is easily the largest release in the Animal Crossing franchise to date, with more than triple the launch sales of 3DS incarnation New Leaf. (In fact, as GamesIndustry.biz noted, it managed a launch sales total bigger than all other Animal Crossing releases combined.) And all of this is without digital sales numbers, which Nintendo will likely comment on in due course. Watch on YouTube Doom Eternal, meanwhile, had physical numbers down by around a third on 2016's Doom - though the rise in digital sales will likely make up much of this. Id Software's first-person shooter is off to a flyer on Steam, for example. Across the chart, physical sales were up across the board as people prepared to entertain themselves inside for the foreseeable future. Nintendo sold double the number of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe copies this week it did last week, for example, while COD and FIFA's weekly totals tripled. But there was only one winner. The full UK top 10 lies below: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Doom Eternal COD: Modern Warfare FIFA 20 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe GTA 5 Crash Trilogy Forza Horizon 4 Crash Team Racing Rooty Tooty Cowboy Shooty Tooty Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 11 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store