Nintendo sells 5 million copies of Animal Crossing: New Leaf worldwide

Nintendo’s Wii U home console is struggling, but it’s portable hardware and games are only gaining steam.

The Japanese publisher reported its earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal 2014 and revealed that Animal Crossing: New Leaf has sold over 5.4 million copies worldwide since its release. The multiplayer social-simulation game sold 1.19 million of those copies outside of Japan.