How much do you think Bells would be worth in real money

[Thievius Raccoonus]

I realize that it is a fictional game, but I can't be the only one who wonders this question. As for my thought I figure that Bells are based on Japanese Yen which is ~8.5 US cents according to Google. Though, beyond that I figure that with many of the items being around 500 for common household things that cost an average of 25-100 US dollar, I'd figure that 1 Bells would probably be around 5 to 50 to a buck. That said your basic house would be 108,000 Bells (including the 10,000 Bells down) would be $540k to $5.4M, which doesn't make sense...

 

[Red Cat]

Since there are many fish, bugs, and fruit which sell for more than furniture, I don't think you can put a real world currency price on bells because the prices in-game relative to each other don't make much sense.

 

[Thievius Raccoonus]

That's a good point. I mean the beetles are what a good 5k+ when selling them to Re-Tail, which is supposed to be a 1/4 of the "MSRP" if I recall right.

 

[BluebellLight]

I kinda delved into this years ago and my own personal conclusion is that 100 bells is approximately equivalent to 10$. This makes sense because clothing prices at Able Sisters translate to reasonable non-designer brand clothes (32$ for 320 bell clothes) and the opposite at GracieGrace where 1000s of bells translate to 100s of $s. This holds up pretty well for furniture too, but with fish and bugs it kinda falls apart (1,500$ for a 15000 bell fish) but my personal headcanon is still that 100 bells=10$

 

[Shimmer]

I base them off Japanese yen since it's a Japanese game. Not that that's a legit good "calculation" but whatever. xD

 

[rachisrad]

I think about this every time I play! Some things make perfect sense and I think are priced very fairly. Then out of nowhere, Reece offers you 15,000 bells for a golden stag and it's like whoa, what am I even DOING?!

 

[erikaeliseh]

yeah, i also base them off yen because 100 yen would roughly become 10$, more or less with the exchange rate. of course, the in-game bells are unrealistic, as fruit sells for more than furniture.

 

[maounkhan]

This may seem like the worst but I always though 1,000 bells were like a dollar.

 

[Red Cat]

This may seem like the worst but I always though 1,000 bells were like a dollar.

Well, Animal Crossing practically has child / sweatshop labor in it, so I could see myself going into Able Sisters and buying a shirt for 30 cents USD.