Animal Crossing does impressive debut sales in Japan

After only being out for a week in Japan, Animal Crossing: Wild World manages to sell quite an impressive amount of copies since it's release last Wednesday.

According to Enterbrain, Nintendo has sold 350,000 copies of the NDS title Doubutsu no Mori DS [Animal Crossing: Wild World] during it first week. Released last Wednesday, the game sold about 325,000 copies by Sunday. In turn, sales of the Nintendo DS also surged to about 160,000 units in the same week. There is a huge shortage of the game throughout Japan as Nintendo is struggling to meet the demands for the game. This exceeds all previous reports and expectations of the title and can only mean good things for Nintendo and the DS in the upcoming weeks leading further into the holiday season.

src: theMagicBox

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  Oh, Hellz Yeah!

  walaluigi, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  ...Does this take into account the 400,000+ that were preordered or is that seperate?

  Darkling05, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  that includes pre-orders darkling

  cubeenigma, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Those 400.000 pre-orders were for retailers, not customers...

  twilight, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Yeah, 400K were shipped.

  Jay, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  That is a heap of sales i just love it when nintendo does well

  firefly, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  that pure awesomeness:D

  darkshadow61, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  i hope this will convince developers to do a lot of great games on ds

  Olpus Bonzo, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Wow. That is really impressive. I cannot wait til I can get my hands on this one...

  moo_man, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  w00t! w00t! I can't wait t this game. I wonder what the US and Europe sales figures will be?...

  Nintendude, 30-11--0001 at 00:00