Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis staggeringly popular, in no small part due to so many people across the world staying at home and looking for a distraction. The popularity ofAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsis so impressive that the excitement is even overflowing into other areas, at least in Japan. Judging from Amazon Japan listings forAnimal Crossing: New Leaf,many people are driven to return to their Nintendo 3DS to share in the generalAnimal Crossingexcitement.
As Go Nintendo reports, the prices for bothAnimal Crossing: New Leafand theAnimal Crossing: New Leaf Welcome amiiboedition are both climbing fast in Japan. The implication being that demand is so high that the only copies of the game are available through market places taking advantage of the shortage. Gamers in Japan are looking to playAnimal Crossingone way or another.
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The big reasons forAnimal Crossing: New Leafgetting suddenly popular again are likely twofold. First,Animal Crossingis back in the public light and a lot of people, especially in Japan, already haveNintendo 3DS handhelds. The bigger reason, however, being that the Nintendo Switch is in extremely short supply. The console is selling out all over the world. There are likely a lot of people in Japan wanting to buy a Switch andAnimal Crossing: New Horizonssettling for their 3DS andAnimal Crossing: New Leaf.
A good question is why a similar trend isn’t happening in the USA.Nintendo Switches are in short supplyin the US, too, andAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsis also very popular in the USA. It may actually be happening. Perhaps buyers are purchasing the game digitally instead of via retail, though. But it probably has to do with the 3DS being less widespread.
What’s awesome is thatAnimal Crossing: New Leafisn’t really too different of a game thanAnimal Crossing: New Horizons.New Leafeven has a lot of features thatNew Horizonsseems likely to be rolling out via DLC. It’s a great alternative for those who don’t have access to a Nintendo Switch orAnimal Crossing: New Horizons.
Nintendo continues to introduce newNintendo Switch hardware across the worldas it’s able, andAnimal Crossing: New Horizonslooks like it will continue being a popular escape from the world for the foreseeable future. Hopefully, in the months to come, everyone who wants to playAnimal Crossing: New Horizonswill be able to.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available now on Nintendo Switch.
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