{"id":113893,"date":"2020-06-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/minecraft_dungeons_knocks_animal_crossing_off_the_top_of_the_eshop_charts"},"modified":"2020-06-07T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:00:00","slug":"minecraft-dungeons-knocks-animal-crossing-off-the-top-of-the-eshop-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/07\/minecraft-dungeons-knocks-animal-crossing-off-the-top-of-the-eshop-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Dungeons Knocks Animal Crossing Off The Top Of The eShop Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eb8cfb93de4d6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eb8cfb93de4d6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eb8cfb93de4d6\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a><\/strong> is obviously an insanely popular game, so it&#8217;s no surprise to hear Mojang&#8217;s brand new spin-off <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/minecraft_dungeons\">Minecraft Dungeons<\/a><\/strong> is already selling incredibly well across multiple digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>On the Nintendo front, it&#8217;s taken the top spot from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong> on Switch eShop best sellers list in the United States. As noted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjiSales\/status\/1269462161933434880\">@BenjiSales<\/a>, this brings an end to Tom Nook&#8217;s three months of dominance, which began in March:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minecraft Dungeons has ended Animal Crossings Run as the best selling game on the US eShop<\/p>\n<p>Animal Crossing New Horizons had been #1 since early March. That&#8217;s 3 months of dominance<\/p>\n<p>As we are seeing on Xbox, Minecraft Dungeons is performing very strong, and is now #1 on Switch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JX5e01brN2\">pic.twitter.com\/JX5e01brN2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjiSales\/status\/1269462161933434880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What&#8217;s perhaps even more impressive, though, is that Minecraft Dungeons is now also in the top spot on the Switch eShop charts in both Japan and Europe. We guess if any game was going to take down Nintendo&#8217;s social simulation series on its own digital platform, it had to be something as big as Minecraft. It&#8217;s also affordably priced at just $19.99 \/ \u00a316.74.<\/p>\n<p>Have you purchased Minecraft Dungeons yet? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft is obviously an insanely popular game, so it&#8217;s no surprise to hear Mojang&#8217;s brand new spin-off Minecraft Dungeons is already selling incredibly well across multiple digital platforms. On the Nintendo front, it&#8217;s taken the top spot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch eShop best sellers list in the United States. As noted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}