 Hey everyone, before I get into this video, I want to remind you to enter our Trials of Mana giveaway. Now you don't have to necessarily get a switched version of this. It'll be a digital code. You can get it on your preferred platform. But that is our giveaway for this month to win a copy of the game. All you have to do is like this video, comment down below, subscribe to the channel and hit that bell icon. We will be announcing the winner of the giveaway on the very last day of April. With further ado, let's get into the video. Animal Crossing New Horizons cannot be stopped. Holy crud. We have sales data in from Japan for the second week. This is a full week of sales, but not launch sales for the game. And it basically outsold launch sales for every other Animal Crossing game ever released. It's insane. And not only are we going to talk about the sales today and the rest of the sales charts in Japan, including the Nintendo Switch, again, selling massive numbers. We're also going to be talking about my impressions of Animal Crossing New Horizons. So this is basically a video all about Animal Crossing New Horizons. But first, let's just get into those sales and then we'll get into my early impressions of the game as we head into the Easter event they have going on right now. So as you can see here, these are for last week and Animal Crossing New Horizons moved 727,000 units, moving it up to 2.6 million. Already one of the best selling Switch games in all of Japan. One piece of Pirate Warriors released as well. The PlayStation 4 version did outsell the Switch version by about 40,000. There's also a Pokemon Sword and Shield near for 14,000 or almost 15,000 units really. Ring Fit Adventure at number 5, moving 13,800. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still charting at 11,500. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX moving 11,000. We got Neo 2 over on PlayStation 4 moving 11,000. And Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at number 9, moving 10,000. And Minecraft for Switch, the physical version moving 9.9,000. Eight Switch games to PlayStation 4, but when you get down to here, this is really insane. You'll see the Nintendo Switch moved 282,000 units after moving 392,000 last week. That is the power of Animal Crossing. It has moved 1.7 million units so far this year, which is almost double what it did last year at the same time. Switch is off to a Game Buster start. And if people are curious, I have heard from several people in Japan that retailers over the weekend sold out of Animal Crossing New Horizons, the actual game, the physical game has been sold out, and Switches. So Switches got sold out over the weekend as well. Doesn't mean it's sold out right now. Of course, it is now Wednesday, almost Thursday in Japan. But yes, over, you know, just just an idea. Part of the sales data for last week was under a supply constraint, if you can believe that or not. And these are just physical sales for Animal Crossing. No idea how many additional units were sold digitally. Obviously, we have 13 million Switches there. So who knows how many of those people are buying Animal Crossing right now. When you scroll down here in this media create chart, or Thread, Famitsu Thread on a reset area, you'll see there's some sales trends here for the Switch on its yearly sales, you know, with the 2019 being green. And as you can see, it is charting very, very well to go here 2020, obviously. Just look at that spike. This is the Animal Crossing spike. Look at this. So it was behind 2019, then Animal Crossing hits, and it just zoom and heck, that's even ahead of launch. Remember how we said it sold more during the week for Animal Crossing launch than any time in Japan? Here's the proof. There's where launch was at right here. And then here is where it was last week. So yeah, insane sales right now for the Switch. Obviously Switch year to date sales comparison, obviously massive Animal Crossing spike. No surprise there. We'll see what happens. That spike usually comes or by the time they get to that amount of sales, I mean, you're almost, you know, what 31 weeks into the year. So obviously Switch is on a really, really high pace right now to start this year. And you can kind of see where Switch is starting the spike up here, even further creeping closer and closer to the 3DS. We'll see. We'll see if Switch can catch 3DS. Remember 3DS moved, was it 24 million? We've got the chart right up here. I'm also get the exact numbers. Yeah, 24,500,000 units. So we'll see if Switch can end up catching up to that. It's going to still take a few years for Switch to probably come close. And you can see, you know, the 3DS versus Switch, the difference and all that in the same weeks and such like that. If you care, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Harbor Sales, PlayStation 4 had a PlayStation 3 at the same point in life. So yeah, although PlayStation 3 might end up selling overall more units than PlayStation 4 in Japan, because we obviously know PlayStation 5 is on its way. Software Sales, Animal Crossing, New Leaf, right there. Pretty good. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate right there. Pretty good. Pokemon Sword and Shield right there. Pretty good. And here's Animal Crossing New Horizons, which is just ahead of all of them. So pretty crazy. As I said, Animal Crossing cannot be stopped. Now, obviously, that's just looking at some sales data out of Japan. We don't have anything for the US. The NPD is obviously going to be massive when we see it later this month. But what I'm actually want to talk about now is just my early impressions of Animal Crossing New Horizons, because I have dabbled in every single Animal Crossing game, the spin-off games, and everything in between. Mebo Festival even if you can believe it or not. But I haven't really deep dove into an Animal Crossing, aka played it every day for many days in a row, months in a row, since the original Animal Crossing on GameCube. That was my first experience with Animal Crossing as a kid. And I played the hell out of it. I time warped, I did all that jazz, and I've played other Animal Crossing since, but never really got big into Animal Crossing, because I don't know if I just grew out of the experience or just wanted to experience different things at those points in my life. But it's interesting when I go into New Horizons, because I'm not sure exactly what's different in this game compared to, say, New Leaf, because I didn't deep dive in the New Leaf enough to know what's different. So I'm just kind of almost coming at this from someone who is aware of Animal Crossing and knows how it works, but at the same time doesn't really know the game that well, so everything feels new to me. As an example, there was a while I forgot how to plant fruit trees, and like that's pretty well known in Animal Crossing, I didn't even realize you could dig up entire trees. So again, I'm basically a noob, but who's also aware of what this game is and how it works in some capacity. And I only have one room in my house right now for those who want to know where am I on the house upgrade tree. I only have one room, it's not paid off, because we really were focusing on paying off a new bridge and all that in the town, me and my fiancee. And I think that's what's been interesting about this game is it's the first game since I think the new Super Mario Brothers U game that me and Yulia are playing together. And I find that fascinating to me because I usually when I game, I game mostly on my own, unless it's a multiplayer game like Fortnite or something. And even when I play Fortnite, I usually play with strangers, I don't really, I'm usually a solo gamer. So to play this game with somebody else obviously creates a unique experience. One, I'm fighting for time to play on my Switch. This is the first time I felt like I wish I had like an extra switch specifically for my fiancee, switch light or something. I don't know, she likes to play on TV. So probably the Animal Crossing switch would probably do just Andy for her. But it's also nice too, because when I don't have time to play and she has time to play, she's also doing things like, you know, helping pay off the bridge or farming different things and helping fill out the museum, or she's decorating the town because she does like decorating the town. And, you know, we have this entire flower garden going on right now. We'll see how long that lasts for. But right now we have a huge flower garden. And I think that when I think about the whole Animal Crossing experience, I find it just to be really relaxing. And I think I hate saying this, but I think almost this this worldwide pandemic going on right now might have even helped the game a little bit. This isn't to say the game would depend on an amazing seller anyways, of course it would have been. But can you time a game like this to come out any better than right now in the middle of this time when we're stuck at home, and we want to escape and we want to go to an island, we would love to go on the vacation to Hawaii or wherever. But we can't we can't really get out of the house. We can't even go to our local parks because they're shut down. So while we can play outside in our yard and go for a walk or whatever, it's not the same as actually being able to do things out in the world. So then you have this Animal Crossing game coming. I think that's helping my appeal for the game is I like I'm planting trees. I'm chopping down trees. I'm catching bugs. I'm fishing. I don't even like fishing in real life. And here I am fishing for hours on end in this game. And honestly, I could just be fishing in real life instead. I obviously don't get the wide variety of fish that you do here out here. You can catch a couple different types of fish, but that's about it. It's it's just such a relaxing experience. I think in a time when there's so much going on, I'm homeschooling my kids right now. So like today, I had to be, you know, Mr. Jants and, and, you know, be a teacher and all that for all three of the kids. And obviously, that gets a little complicated because I'm trying to do videos. I'm also trying to keep up my physical health. You know, I've been working out going on walks, eating healthier, drinking only water now. I finally, yes, folks, finally cut soda out of my diet. So yeah, Nate, good job. Took me long enough. It's it's an interesting experience to find time for all that, find the energy for all that. And then when I want to relax, I just kick back with some AC. And I think, you know, new leaf could have did this other games could have did this, but new horizons is just if there's something special about this game. And it's not perfect. Like the multiplayer experience when me and Yulia are playing together isn't perfect. There are things we wish could have been done better. But ultimately, we just enjoy it for what it is. It's a relaxing experience. We like upgrading and decorating our house and making things for our neighbors and trying to get more neighbors to move in. You know, we'll see what the village could be so populated. There won't be room for any trees at some point. I have no clue how many people we're going to get to move into our village because it just keeps growing. Seemingly every single day we have like someone new coming in. I think we're up to four or five new villagers at this point. And, you know, flick just came to town and trying to catch bugs or selling it like it's just every day. It's nice to wake up. There's just something to do. Now granted, you can run out of things to do and you can time hop and I'm not going to lie. I time hopped. Of course, I was told if I time hopped that the events would be pushed back, yet here we are on April 1st and I have the Easter event starting right on time like it's supposed to. So I don't know. I guess maybe that's not true. Our Nintendo wasn't right with that. Like time hoppers were supposed to be punished and I'm not being punished because I set the date back to the normal day like days ago and now that we're to April 1st, everything's fine. Even though I time hopped to get the museum and other things, you know, a little bit quicker. I don't know. I guess maybe because I didn't time hop specifically to do holiday events. I mean, I think it was about a week ago. I time hopped all the way up to April 3rd, one day at a time to get new things unlocked and then I jumped back to like May 26th or something. So I don't know. Maybe that helped. But between I time hopped, it is what it is. I don't do it very often. Just sparingly. Like we didn't time hop. Like we paid off the bridge last night. We didn't time hop to get the bridge built. We wait for today. So now the bridge is built to where we want to go and it's just it's such a fun game. It's just a relaxing game. It's not an exciting game. You know, it's not one of those games where, you know, you're going to have be beaming with excitement and get your heart racing heart pumping and and jump out of bed and you know, whatever like, oh, I bought the rare I caught the rarest fish in the game. You're not going to like, you know, run around the house screaming out of excitement like you can if you win a huge game of Fortnite or something. But it is an experience where it's just a consistent, relaxing experience. And even when you run out of things to do, it to me, it just feels like, well, it's okay that I'm done. It's fine. Because I know tomorrow I'm going to have a whole bunch of things to do again. And I'm okay with that. Like it's, I don't feel like I need to play it for eight, 12, 10 hours. Some of you guys are probably playing like crazy. I've seen some play hours over 100 over 120 hours, sunk into the game. You know, I'm happy at my 30 to 40 hours in but it's just a fun game. And it's a hard game. Like when you're looking at, you know, where would you rate it, you know, out of 10 or it's such a hard game to rate. So I'm not going to attempt to give an exact rating. But right now, I'm hard pressed to think of one thing that I really want this game to be better at right now. Now long haul, I'm sure there's going to be things like I wish maybe I wish there were baits or different types of baits for the water. Or maybe I'll think of, you know, I've complained in the past about some things with this game before it came out. Now that it's here, my complaints don't seem that relevant anymore. Even though they're still true, there's things like the multiplayer together isn't perfect. I hate that we have to keep switching the leader back and forth just to access our own bags and stuff like that. But you know, it's okay. I'm okay with it. We're kind of used to it at this point to the point that it's just so second nature, we don't even really think about it. Anyways, if you think of Animal Crossing New Horizons, it's about the sales, about the game, about your towns. If you somehow have a video of your town or screenshots of your town up online, feel free to link them down in the comments below. I will try to approve any comments I see that end up getting hit by YouTube for having links because that happens sometimes. Just so we can kind of share our villages. You've seen a little bit of mine. It's not fully up to date. This is from a couple days ago. I had about eight minutes of footage I recorded for a different video just showing you showing off the town a little bit. So this doesn't even have all our villagers. This is definitely not up to date because today, you know, with the Easter event going, we've been finding eggs and talking to zipper and it's an experience. Let me tell you that that's all I can say is Animal Crossing is an experience, but it's not a game for everyone. So thank you guys for tuning in. Hopefully you guys enter that giveaway for Trials of Mana by commenting, liking this video, subscribing, hitting that bell icon, all that jazz. You can do that every single video in the month of April here to get an extra entry. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and I will catch you all in the next video.