Across animals
There were no enemies or competition in “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” which came out in March for the Nintendo Switch console. Instead players explore an island, collect fruit and make tools and furniture, trade with others, as the seasons change slowly.
This version of the game is definitely hitting the spot with hungry players for some light movement. It topped the sales charts in the United States in March 2020, and was among the top vendors in other countries as well. The title was number two in Europe for 2020 overall, according to GfK.
“The remarkable success of Animal Crossing is explained by two factors: one is a fundamental move towards family games and the other is a short-term factor of the defensive line,” said Nicolas Vignolles, head of the French video game publisher association. SELL.
He said parents were suddenly opposed to being restricted by their children watching video games to find options for family entertainment, and that it was “a cross game for a parent-child game. Animal Crossing. “
Nintendo France boss Philippe Lavoue has admitted that the company has a lucky time to release the game just as many people had to flee.
“But we were happy to help limited people feel less lonely and run away in their minds,” he told the French newspaper Le Figaro.
Among them
The success of “Among Us” in 2020 took the industry by surprise with the title not attracting much attention when it was first released in 2018.
But its developers in the US studio Innersloth kept updating their idea, which paid off when some prominent Twitch game climbers started playing it on stage in mid-2020.
By November the game had half a billion players, according to Superdata, which oversees the game industry.
The online multiplayer game takes place on a spaceship. Most people are predators but several are extremists who are out to kill or at least prevent workers from carrying out their named activities. Lively debates take place while crews try to get rid of the people.
The game is hugely popular even with U.S. lawmakers engaging in games aired on Twitch in an effort to reach young voters last year.
For French game publisher Nicolas Vignolles it’s the exchanges between players that explain how great the game is.
“Among us at the crossroads of social networks and video games,” he said, noting that nearly one in two French gamers say that video games help them build social relationships. creation.
“That didn’t exist before … This fundamental movement is accelerated by restraint,” Vignolles said.
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Adventure Ring Fit
If working out and playing video games are typically two interface activities, “Ring Fit Adventure” brings them together.
The game works with the Switch console, whose controllers are inserted into a Pilates ring and a leg strap.
When equipped, players can fight monsters or be guided through fitness routines by the television.
Closing gyms along with locks came with a spike in sales, leading to a shortage last year after users dropped four million units between October 2019 and July 2020.
FIFA 2021
Many football matches and the promotion of the Euro tournament may have sparked interest among fans to almost play. According to GfK, FIFA 2021 from Electronic Arts was the best selling video game of 2020.
Board and Card Games
If chessboards and Uno cards were to board home boards much more frequently during locking, their versions made video games as well.
A sign of that is a collection of classic board games for Switch among the top vendors for the console in France last year, Nintendo told Le Figaro.
“The big lesson was the limitation that video games have definitely broken a game stereotype that could lead people to withdraw and be lonely,” Nicolas Vignolles said.
“They were a very effective antidote to loneliness.”