Reuters reported on Friday that e-commerce platforms in China have removed Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the latest entry in the Animal Crossing game franchise, after pro-democracy Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong used the game for protests.
Multiplayer connectivity for games such as Animal Crossing: New Horizons is only available in China through platforms on the “grey market.”
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the first in the series for the Nintendo Switch.
The game sold 1,880,626 copies in Japan its first three days, the highest ever number of first-week copies sold for a Switch game in Japan.