Animal Crossing: New Horizons Was The Bestselling Game In Japan In April 2020

Famitsu has published the bestselling games and game consoles in Japan for April 2020 (March 30 – April 26, 2020).

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the bestselling game of the month, moving 1.28 million copies. Coming up at second place was Final Fantasy VII Remake, with 839,074 copies sold. The Nintendo Switch was also the bestselling console in Japan for the month of April, though it saw its sales decrease due to shortages and production issues caused by the coronavirus.

Nintendo was also the best performing publisher in April 2020 – the company sold 1.62 million games in April. Square Enix came in second with 1.03 million copies.

Full details:

■Software sales
1st：Animal Crossing: New Horizons（Switch）- Nintendo：1,286,742
2nd：Final Fantasy VII Remake（PS4）- Square Enix：839,074
3rd：Resident Evil 3（PS4）- Capcom: 244,640
4th：Trials of Mana 3（PS4）- Square Enix：80,383
5th：Trials of Mana 3（Switch）- Square Enix：70,114

■Hardware sales
1st Nintendo Switch（Total）：314,931（Month before – Nintendo Switch（Total）：836,094）
2nd PlayStation 4（Total）：166,150（Month before – PlayStation 4（Total）：64,492）
（Nintendo Switch sales are inclusive of Nintendo Switch Lite. PlayStation 4 sales are inclusive of PlayStation 4 Pro）

■Software sales consolidated by publisher
1st：Nintendo：1.621 million
2nd：Square Enix：1.032 million
3rd：Capcom：299,000

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