Nintendo: Mario Kart 8 Sells 1.2m in Opening Weekend, Franchise Hits 100m - News
by Miles Taven , posted on 02 June 2014 / 20,543 Views
Amid great anticipation and sterling recommendations from gaming publicists, it's no surprise to see Mario Kart 8 debut to impressive sales on the Nintendo WiiU. Boasting a 20% attach rate the game shifted 1.2 million copies across Europe, Japan and the Americas from Thursday, 29th May to Sunday, 1st June.
Not only does Mario Kart 8 enjoy the highest metascore for a home console iteration (88) but is the second highest debut for an MK game.
Keen to revel in their success, Nintendo didn't hold back with the facts and figures. The company announced across all previous seven Mario Kart games the franchise has crossed the 100 million mark, and now joins other prestigious gaming franchises to achieve the epic milestone. 
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Are you serious? So Ryan's crazy (well, not so crazy now) prediction of 1 Million came true?
Color me surprised!
Just before E3 too, when Nintendo further excites us with announcements like Zelda U!
Glad I underestimated it! I wonder how long It'll take for it to top Nintendo Land...
Well deserved. I'll be joining the million+ when I get my copy later next week.
I want a Wii U :C
If you don't own a Will U, go get it asap! Mario Kart 8 is a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!!
I underestimated it badly. Can't believe I predicted only 500k. Sales won't drop off too quickly. I'm hyped for this game and getting it next week. And so are 2 of my friends.
That 35 million of MKWii is just insane. I don't think any other MK will top it?
its misleading, it only has those crazy numbers because they were bundled with a wii for so long, same for dance and fit games. smash bros was the true best selling game on wii
And people were telling me Mario Kart 8 wouldn't do much to help the Wii U.
But I have to admit, it sold WAY beyond my expectations!
And much predict only 500-600 K... MUHAHAHAHAHA!!! >XD
Amazing sales
someday......there will be a game to cross the 50m mark watch. I dunno what it will be lol.
Wii Sports already did that, and crossed the 80m mark to boot.
So far there are two... first one being Tetris but that was released over a huge range of systems and then Wii sports... but that was bundled with most Wii's... so yeah. :P Minecraft is close...very close and Super Mario Bros for the NES is 10 million off. It is actually quite interesting that Nintendo holds 6 games in the top 10 for best selling games.
That is awsome... My friends are planning to get a Mario Kart 8 bundle and still waiting in Croatia for our retailers to stock it, WTF! Algoritam sucks sometimes... Mario Kart 8 party baby,!
Can't believe this actually happened!
I think I predicted 600K. I was prepared to be out by a few hundred K but I did not imagine the actual tally would be 200% of my prediction. Shows one cannot use the US pre-order chart as any kind of predictor for Nintendo software sales. People just don't pre-order Nintendo games to the degree they do PS/Xb games.
I never preorder games. There is no reason to, I just digitally download it at midnight on launch day. I see software preorders becoming a thing of the past (hardware on the other hand...)
amazing sales for this franchise.. I am worried although this is perhaps my most favourite Mario kart since the first game. It may be the least selling :(
so Watchdogs sold 3 or 4 times more
Sure did, on 3 or 4 more systems too. Also had more than 3 days. So yeah, comparisons.
you do realize that Watch dogs was released on 5 separate systems right? Mario Kart was released one one. Also, almost all of them have a larger user base than the Wii U with the exception of the Xbox one. So lets take those numbers and divide them to get an average for the consoles.... which would put Watch dogs at approx. 800k per system...
