I know Nintendo is an international company whose main goal is making money, but despite this I can’t help feeling it’s a cute little upstart that’s mine and mine alone. Sometimes though, it’s hard to avoid the reality. Like today. Because today is the day of Nintendo’s financials.

Yes, the company is doing rather well.

The financials are filled with a raft of interesting facts and figures.

For example, the company has now sold 79.87 million Switch units — finally overtaking the 3DS. On top of that, it also reported a 98.2% year-on-year increase in operating profit. Overall, not a bad time to be Nintendo.

As impressive as these stats are, they weren’t what really caught my attention. That honor went to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Why? Because, as of the end of last year, the has game sold a staggering 31.18 million copies.

That means that just under half of everyone who owns a Switch has Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Which is madness — especially when you consider that it’s a peaceful game where you don’t do much of anything. Where, friends, is the violence?

Because it’s Monday and you can’t stop me, I wanted to think about what that 31.18 million (AKA 31,180,000) copies of Animal Crossing: New Horizons meant in real terms. So here it is:

I could go on, but I won’t. It is Monday after all.

TL;DR: Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold a shit ton of copies and Nintendo had a great year.

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Published February 1, 2021 — 14:14 UTC