{"id":136918,"date":"2026-04-22T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-200220"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:00:00","slug":"tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-is-reportedly-the-best-physical-launch-of-2026-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-is-reportedly-the-best-physical-launch-of-2026-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Is Reportedly The Best Physical Launch Of 2026 In France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e8521a82f55d3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e8521a82f55d3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"e8521a82f55d3\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e8521a82f55d3\/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e8521a82f55d3\/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo Life \/ Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If your social media feed has been overrun with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/tomodachi_life_living_the_dream\">Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream<\/a> content, well, same! Nintendo&#8217;s latest Switch 1 title seems to be a hit, perhaps nowhere more so than France, where the game is apparently the best physical launch of 2026 so far.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/oscarlemaire.bsky.social\/post\/3mjz25fdcnc2p\">French journalist Oscar Lemaire<\/a> (via <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-launch-physical-sales-france-resident-evil-requiem\">Eurogamer<\/a>) the new Tomodachi Life has outperformed Resident Evil Requiem \u2014 a multiplatform release \u2014 to become the best-selling physical game of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p>Lemaire previously stated that <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.installbaseforum.com\/forums\/threads\/france-weekly-sales-thread-2026-edition.4319\/page-2#post-397126\">RE9 sold 70,000 units at launch<\/a>, so if accurate, Tomodachi Life&#8217;s numbers are pretty darn impressive.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-bsky-post\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/oscarlemaire.bsky.social\/post\/3mjz25fdcnc2p @ 2026-04-22T15:55:35+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sespqbn4p3glj4jz3xiiqbva\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mjz25fdcnc2p\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreicuvba3raum7qsscotmhshbnvz2nb63qkfs56nn2wn6rptw3yluty\">\n<p lang=\"fr\">Tomodachi Life Switch r\u00e9alise le meilleur d\u00e9marrage physique de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e en France, surpassant celui de Resident Evil Requiem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sespqbn4p3glj4jz3xiiqbva?ref_src=embed\">Oscar Lemaire (@oscarlemaire.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sespqbn4p3glj4jz3xiiqbva\/post\/3mjz25fdcnc2p?ref_src=embed\">2026-04-21T13:02:23.249Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have sale figures from elsewhere in the world yet, but we do know Living the Dream sold extremely well in the UK, being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/04\/uk-charts-tomodachi-life-is-living-the-dream-in-its-debut-week\">the top-selling physical release of the week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, according to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Chris_Dring\/status\/2045941288042713370\">The Game Business&#8217; Chris Dring<\/a>, the Switch 1 exclusive&#8217;s physical launch was 36% bigger than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/pokemon-pokopia\">Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/a>&#8216;s launch, though that was a Switch 2 exclusive and was reportedly undershipped.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait to hear from Nintendo itself on the overall sales figures, but we should know Japan&#8217;s physical numbers by the end of the week. Expect big numbers, folks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:200148,200084 @ 1776877385 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you one of the many playing Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream? Surprised by its success? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life \/ Nintendo If your social media feed has been overrun with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream content, well, same! Nintendo&#8217;s latest Switch 1 title seems to be a hit, perhaps nowhere more so than France, where the game is apparently the best physical launch of 2026 so far. According to French journalist [&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-136918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136918","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=136918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}