Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is doing quite alright for himself considering the generous revenue garnered by his company. However, for as much revenue as the man earns, Animal Crossing: New Horizons' real estate mogul, Tom Nook, appears to have the online retail industry leader beat by far when it comes to net worth.
After running the necessary calculations, Online Casinos determined that Tom Nook's net worth is approximately $5,770,052,748,058.73, or £4,629,913,419,050.46. If this calculation is correct, then this makes Tom Nook about 40 times wealthier than Jeff Bezos.
The factors taken into account for the calculation were the total amount of players globally, island costs, and home upgrades. As well, the exchange of Bells into British pounds came into play when making the calculations.
For instance, it was determined that one Bell is equal to 0.0074 British pounds. As well, at the time of calculation, there were 3,031,784 globally, and the price of home upgrades in total was 128,723,436,563.46 British pounds.
With regards to island value, Fast Company states that each island is worth 1,484,514 British pounds, so in total, the value of every island put together is 41,802,323,758.24 British pounds.
Finally, as Jeff Bezos' net worth is stated to be $143,100,000,000, Tom Nook's $5,770,052,748,058.73 net worth is just over 40 times that of Jeff Bezos.
Nintendo Life, Reddit, and Private Island were among the websites used when gathering data for the calculations.
This projected amount exceeds that of a previous estimate that Tom Nook was worth $172,588,800,000. However, given that the total number of players is a factor in Online Casino's calculation, Tom Nook's net worth would only rise just to exceed Jeff Bezos' net worth more and more.
For a raccoon who lives relatively humbly, this estimate suggests that Tom Nook is rich beyond belief. Given he works out of a tent when players start up Animal Crossing: New Horizons, though, the estimates are either untrue or he has saved it up or invested it in other islands.
Things get even murkier if one considers the previous games in which Tom Nook collected other payments for similar things, such as home upgrades. If that were taken into account, then Tom Nook's wealth would be even further off the charts.