If there’s one company benefiting from people staying inside and at home, it’s Nintendo. By no means is anyone happy that we’re dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, but Nintendo is showing impressive sales numbers nevertheless. A huge part of that is the push in console sales thanks to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. If there was ever a game to help curb anxieties about the real world, then it’s this one. Not to mention, just weeks after its release, the game already met its lifetime sales goal.

In a recent Nintendo Financial Briefing, execs at the company shared that sales of New Horizons to this point were initially the forecast for the number of sales it would make over its lifetime. At the end of March, total copies sold of Animal Crossing: New Horizons topped 13.41 million units in just six weeks. A major amount of that total, 11.77 million copies, were purchased in the first 11 days of the game’s release. Nintendo knew this would be a hit, but not this big of a hit.

The amazing thing about all of this is that Switch consoles are hard to come by right now. That means some people who might love to buy the game can’t because the hardware is flying off the shelves. Good news: Nintendo seems to believe that production will start up again soon. Of course, the big question is whether or not COVID-19 closures will continue into the summer and fall. Depending on the pandemic, we might not see a huge uptick in console production.

Nevertheless, Animal Crossing: New Horizons seems built for the stay-at-home reality we’re living in right now. With any luck, we’ll be out fishing, catching bugs, and traveling to mystery islands in search of gold in the real world any day now. I mean, if that’s the sort of thing you do in the real world. My real-world plans? Play more Animal Crossing.

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