{"id":77693,"date":"2026-05-08T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77693"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:36:29","slug":"tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-is-selling-like-hotcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77693","title":{"rendered":"Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Is Selling Like Hotcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo has shared the financial results for the fiscal year ending in March 2026, and while the company expects the Switch 2 to sell fewer units during its second year of life<\/a>, not all things look bad for Nintendo. The company announced that its social life simulator, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream<\/a>, is doing gangbusters numbers, selling nearly 4 million units in just two weeks.<\/p>\n

In a series of slides<\/a> posted to the company’s official website, Nintendo shared the sales figures for Living the Dream. For a game that released on April 16, Nintendo confirmed that the “global cumulative sell-through in [two] weeks after release [was] over 3.8 million units.” This was the only mention of the game in the 29 slides, but it’s still an impressive figure for a franchise that hasn’t seen a new entry since 2013’s Tomodachi Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sales figure makes sense when you look at the attention surrounding Living the Dream. A cursory glance at Nintendo’s official YouTube channel demonstrates just how popular the game would likely become when it launched, with many of the videos<\/a> garnering hundreds of thousands to millions of views. And the same is true on Reddit, where the game’s two primary subreddits–r\/tomodachilife<\/p>\n

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Nintendo has shared the financial results for the fiscal year ending in March 2026, and while the company expects the Switch 2 to sell fewer units during its second year of life, not all things look bad for Nintendo. The company announced that its social life simulator, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, is doing gangbusters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":77695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77696,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77693\/revisions\/77696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}