Since its release in March, 22 million "Animal Crossing" video games have been sold. This also makes more and more people want more Animal Crossing Bells.

The Nintendo developer said the game’s popularity increased from April to June to 106.4 billion yen (770 million pounds), five times the original. The Japanese company added that the market has shown that it "has not lost momentum" and that there is a great demand for other games. The success of Animal Crossing has also led to an upward trend in Switch game sales.

Nintendo said that the series sold 5.7 million Switch devices in the first quarter, an increase of 2.1 million units over the same period last year. He also added that half of the game consoles played for the first time this quarter in this section are about animal crossing. Although the growth has brought the challenge of production pressure, it has achieved growth-Nintendo said it is difficult to get parts. The company said that despite the gap between production and delivery, the problem has become more and more serious due to many weak facilities.

Nintendo said: "We are working hard to deliver these products to customers faster."

Primitive Animal Crossing was released in 2001. The latest title is "Animal Crossing: New Horizons". It is a task for players to share an island with anthropomorphic creatures and complete the task of earning money, or you can achieve your own task by buy Animal Crossing Bells. Great success was achieved during the pandemic, attracting people to quickly search and find ways to socialize.

Nintendo estimates that 10.6 million copies of "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" are sold 10 times more than other Nintendo games. It is second only to the company's Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which has sold 26 million copies since its release in 2017. This quarter, Nintendo’s total sales were 358.1 billion yen, more than double the previous year. Revenue was 106.4 billion yen, an increase of 16.6 billion yen over the same period last year. Industry analyst Serkan Toto said on Twitter: “The numbers are crazy.” But Nintendo said that as the blockade eases, the gaming boom may disappear.

It did not meet its annual revenue forecast of approximately 200 billion yen, which was lower than last year's 259 billion yen.