Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tops 3 Million Units Sold Worldwide at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 October 2017 / 7,092 Views
The kart racing game from Nintendo - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - has reached a new sales milestone, according to our estimates. The game has surpassed three million units sold worldwide at retail. The figure can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending September 2.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 63,386 units for the week ending to bring lifetime sales to 3,036,623 units. It took the game 19 weeks to reach the milestone.
Breaking down the sales by region, the game had sold best in the US with 1,097,656 units sold (36%), compared to 955,634 units sold in Europe (31%) and 686,275 units in Japan (23%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game had sold an estimated 164,185 units in the UK, 229,098 units in Germany, and 265,775 units in France.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe released for the Nintendo Switch worldwide on April 28.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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MK8D Released with extra DLC already included. It's a port. Wikipedia also lists it under MK8. It's not worth making an extra page for it, because it's the same game. Yet you're willing to treat it different from BOTW because of the release date difference? BOTW is also an enhanced version of the Wii U version. Bringing extra functions like higher pixel count. Content!
MK8D Released with extra DLC already included. It's a port. Wikipedia also lists it under MK8. It's not worth making an extra page for it, because it's the same game. Yet you're willing to treat it different from BOTW because of the release date difference? BOTW is also an enhanced version of the Wii U version. Bringing extra functions like higher pixel count. Content!
What was it that was announced by Ninty for June 30th? 3.54 million, including digital and bundles? I wonder how much it stands by now.
Wait, if it already did 3,54m shipped+digital as of june 30th, wouldn't that mean that it's undertracked on VGC. This news is as of September second. That's two months later. According to VGC MK8D sells around 250k per month WW. Even if we assume high digital sales of like 250k, that would still leave almost 750k unaccounted for by june 30th. I refuse to believe nintendo supposedly has had a surplus of 750k on store shelves.
It's late though, maybe I'm thinking wrong?
It's very hard to ignore digital sales on the Switch, when you consider how good Nintendo are at keeping their file sizes reasonable and this game was available at midnight on launch date, plus you have the added fact that if you go digital you don't have to be worrying about minding cartridges or changing them on the go.
Would think there is a lot of people who will be leaning towards eshop more this Gen with Nintendo.
@SuperNova It's not 3.54M shipped, it's 3.54M sold :-) https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html
So if we account the current selling trend of MK8DX here on VG, and assuming that it does sell 250k WW per month, so yes, the game may stand as of now near 4,3M. I'm pretty sure digital sales are excellent for this game + we undertracked a lot.
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