Pokemon dethroned?

Japan’s game industry has seen some change over the past months — while the Pokemon games have been been the best-selling games since the 90’s, Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) has displaced their long reign and has become the most sold game according to Nintendo’s latest financial report.

The success of ACNH can be heavily attributable to the pandemic, during which people were in lockdowns and found solace in a relaxing, perhaps even mind-numbingly boring (in a good way), game. But even still, what about the game makes it so attractive to displace a long-standing champion game like Pokemon?

Interestingly, the article by GameRant speculates ACNH will not be displaced from its throne any time soon. As an avid ACNH player, this is interesting as Nintendo has officially announced there will be no more free, major updates to ACNH. There are rumours about whether this means there will still be “paid” major updates, or perhaps free “minor” updates, but if ACNH is now a done deal for Nintendo, wouldn’t Pokemon (or some other game) be able to attempt at the throne in the near future?

Original article: https://gamerant.com/best-selling-video-games-japan-pokemon-animal-crossing/?fbclid=IwAR3E0W__xpy4g7qy4K06sHbE–Qiuml_fixTNkkv7A3QyyT0nuOma0C52T4