{"id":137259,"date":"2026-05-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201430"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:00:00","slug":"tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-projected-as-the-best-selling-game-in-april-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-projected-as-the-best-selling-game-in-april-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Projected As The Best-Selling Game In April (US)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ec2bda95417fb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ec2bda95417fb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"ec2bda95417fb\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Tomodachi Life\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ec2bda95417fb\/tomodachi-life.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ec2bda95417fb\/tomodachi-life.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"492\" alt=\"Tomodachi Life\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The delightfully bizarre first-party life sim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/tomodachi_life_living_the_dream\">Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream<\/a> has been projected to be the best-selling game of April in the US, thanks to Circana&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mmbxkfcfdk2v\">Mat Piscatella<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new release beats the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/pragmata\">Pragmata<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/crimson_desert\" class=\"external\">Crimson Desert<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/pokemon-pokopia\">Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/saros\" class=\"external\">Saros<\/a>, though it&#8217;s important to note that this is merely projected sales. Since Nintendo doesn&#8217;t share monthly digital sales data, the best Circana can do at this stage is, well&#8230; project the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the top ten, courtesy of Mr. Piscatella:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-bsky-post\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mmbxkhgi2d2v @ 2026-05-20T16:54:39+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:bhqrrxt7yyfpwguioa7rwa7x\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mmbxkhgi2d2v\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreic6q4ud42rmrbt22rjgd4juak42xcrb4w4numq4rn4jiy7necfmaa\">\n<p lang=\"en\">April 2026 U.S. Projected Top 10 Best-Selling Games Ranked on Physical &amp; Full Game Digital Dollar Sales (Excludes Mobile and Digital Add-On Content)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:bhqrrxt7yyfpwguioa7rwa7x?ref_src=embed\">Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:bhqrrxt7yyfpwguioa7rwa7x\/post\/3mmbxkhgi2d2v?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-20T13:00:19.106Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s said that Tomodachi Life managed to deliver &#8220;over $41M in physical and projected digital spending&#8221;, and it&#8217;s also now the ninth best-selling game of 2026 to date. Pretty good going for such a late Switch release! Clearly there&#8217;s a lot of demand, even with the Switch 2 gobbling up sales since its launch last year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, the Switch 2 was the best-selling console of the month, with the PS5 coming in second. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how things change (if at all) when the Switch 2 price hikes come into effect from September. A solid line-up of games toward the end of the year will prove crucial, so hopefully Nintendo has a Direct up its sleeve in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:200985,200933 @ 1779292805 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Did you grab Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream in April? How about a Switch 2? Let us know with a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo The delightfully bizarre first-party life sim Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has been projected to be the best-selling game of April in the US, thanks to Circana&#8217;s Mat Piscatella. The new release beats the likes of Pragmata, Crimson Desert, Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia, and Saros, though it&#8217;s important to note that this is merely projected [&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-137259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137259","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=137259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}