People were starving for *quality* software when MK8 originally released too, and that was 18 months after the console launched.
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UK: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe first week outsells Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 7
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People were starving for *quality* software when MK8 originally released too, and that was 18 months after the console launched.
Exterminieren
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Great result.
As for the question of whether Mario Kart 9 will hit the Switch... I reckon that any MK8D DLC will be telling. If we get some meaningful DLC by year's end, it'll probably mean that they're looking to establish it as a game as a service, and we won't see a new one on this hardware. If they haven't, I'd bet cash that a Mario Kart 9 for Switch is in the works.
As for the question of whether Mario Kart 9 will hit the Switch... I reckon that any MK8D DLC will be telling. If we get some meaningful DLC by year's end, it'll probably mean that they're looking to establish it as a game as a service, and we won't see a new one on this hardware. If they haven't, I'd bet cash that a Mario Kart 9 for Switch is in the works.
Waluigilicious
Member
Agree completely.
My wish is that we get plenty of DLC for this, and then a good Diddy Kong Racing game as an alternative!
ArkhamFantasy
Member
I thought MK8D was just going to hold people over until MK9, but based on the little bit of sales figures we're seeing they might just make MK8 the Switch MK game.
I'm happy for the people who are excited to play it for the first time, but its a bit of a bummer for me since i already bought MK8 and all the DLC on Wii U.
I'm happy for the people who are excited to play it for the first time, but its a bit of a bummer for me since i already bought MK8 and all the DLC on Wii U.
Pretty much, DLC spread over the next couple of years encompassing new multiplayer modes, 2-4 new cups (so 8-16 tracks) and half a dozen or so new characters. There's no need for a Mario Kart 9 on the Switch, after these sort of results, that'll be saved for launch with the Switch 2!
Graphics Horse
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In my armchair scheduler I'm pencilling in August for 25th Anniversary DLC, and a new title for the 30th Anniversary in 2022
Sammy Samusu
Member
I'm in awe.
It's a port and the installed base is smaller.
Go easy on me Switch.
It's a port and the installed base is smaller.
Go easy on me Switch.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Wait...no it's not.
Yeah, looks like it but I just can't safely gauge that market other than by current sales numbers and anecdotal evidence which is a a pretty bad barometer especially on the internet.
The PS4 won't stop selling anytime soon especially in more third-world leaning countries where Playstation has a stronghold. It has become a meme but applies in this case - it's a marathon not a sprint.
No, you are not so don't waste your time with this.
Maybe next time say it is going to be bigger instead of IS bigger, which is saying something completely different, hence the replies.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Yes. PS4 will have much better legs. I can't see it not pass the Wii.
Possumowner
Member
Wow,pretty good considering the userbase.Lets see if it's got legs
Actually, I think he might be on to something. The artificial scarcity that Nintendo has created for the Switch has prompted many to buy the system even though they really didn't want to, and now they are looking at the system and the only game that remotely interests them is MK8D, hence these results. It all makes perfect sense, this diabolical masterplan of Nintendo's!
Nah, it's obviously scalpels buying MK8D.
Yeah I'm looking at the bigger picture and not the current objective one. I definitely could have worded that better, true.
RavageDark
Member
Please tell me you're being sarcastic.
Waluigilicious
Member
I thought so. No one bought Zelda because there's nothing else to play. They bought the Switch FOR Zelda. You can argue this point for games like Bomberman and Snake Pass, because people want more games to play and they are obviously limited to what they have so these games can possibly sell more than they would have had they released at a different time, but Zelda has nothing to do with this.
And neither does Mario Kart. If the percentage of people that bought Zelda because there's "nothing else to buy" is basically 0% then I'm willing to bet that percentage for Mario Kart is far less than 1%. You might have the very odd few who bought the Switch for Zelda and wouldn't have bought MK8D had it released a few months later, but that number is so low that had MK8D actually released a few months later it would sell even more than it did today because of the larger install base from other games.
MK8D outselling MK7 and MK8 at launch is extremely impressive and there's no way this can be spun. It released less than two months into a console and it's not even a brand new game. I'm willing to bet there are more people skipping it (or more correctly not buying a Switch just yet) because they have MK8 on Wii U than there are these very very few people who bought MK8D because "there's nothing else to play".
Black Republican
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just goes to show how many people didnt have a wiiu to play this masterpiece 
glad more have seen the light!
glad more have seen the light!
And even if it were 5-10%, it still would not be significant enough to explain this amazing result. It's simply a ridiculous notion.
AuthenticM
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It's the first Mario Kart I bought since Double Dash.
The thing with the Wii is that going by GAF talk it sounds like it was the most successful console of all time by a huge margin that Nintendo will never ever be able to replicate again. It is put on a pedestal that I don't think it ever actually reached but that's for another topic.
Linkstrikesback
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Doubly impressive when you remember they were giving away a free download of another Nintendo game on Wii U if you bought Mario Kart. Crikey.
OnionPowder
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I'm not denying that, especially after the Wii tanked so hard later in it's life. I'm just saying it's not bigger than the Wii yet.
Waluigilicious
Member
Oh wow I forgot about this! I so abused this and got download versions of all the games for free (girlfriend worked at a second hand video store at the time and because they sell their games second hand they don't have to come with a code).
Don't hate me though, I owned every single one of those games physically already. And if we didn't get there first the other staff members caught on and wanted to sell them on ebay for profit.
TwistedFreeze
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I think people are going by how quickly the system was selling at its peak and how much mainstream attention it got during said peak more than anything else, in which case, I agree, no system will likely outsell it during that time. Overall, though, there have been quite a few more successful systems and likely to be more successful systems, such as the PS4
It might just be me but the attach ratio for Switch seems quite impressive. Even if we just take the figures Nintendo talked about in their financial presentation we have:
2.74m Switches
2.76m Zelda
~1m 1 2 Switch
0.5m Bomberman
0.35m Snipperclips.
That's an attach ratio of 1.6 in the first month which seems relatively high(?)
Tricky I Shadow
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I NEED THIS!
Exactly. What is more apt to say is probably no other console ever had or in the foreseeable future will have the cultural impact the Wii had. Because judging by that the Wii probably should have sold double its amount. That was and still is the unpredecent part about the Wii as a gaming console.
They shipped 5.46 million software units, making the attach rate close to 2.
Broken Hope
Member
Why do people still act like most games don't sell the vast majority of their week one sales on the first day?
Ahh I hadn't seen the full figure. That's pretty good. Does Nintendo include eShop in that figure nowadays?
Colonel Mustard
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I'd like them to revive a lot of their racing franchises, not just kart racers.
They can start with a port of the new Cruis'n game and work from there with a new F Zero, Excite Truck, 1080, etc.
JonnyDBrit
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Anecdotal evidence time, but just popped down to my local GAME. Sign out front advertising Bank Holiday sales, and that the Switch was back in stock... and it's already been struck through to say sold out.
FreedomFighter
Member
Goddamn.
Switch is killing it. Outselling MK8 on Wii U is not that impressive but also Mario Kart 7... combined? Color me impressed.
Switch is killing it. Outselling MK8 on Wii U is not that impressive but also Mario Kart 7... combined? Color me impressed.
If you only count these 5 titles... ? Or am I missing something ?
Damn Scalpers
this console has been out for less than two months
Not combined, both separately have been outsold by MK8D.
Zelmardonpoktendo
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FreedomFighter
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Oh, ok... I interpreted Chris Wong's "Mario Kark 7 & 8" incorrectly. Still impressive though.
Skittzo0413
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According to Wikipedia Wii U install base was somewhere around 6-7 million when MK8 released. So it's not like the ~4 million Switch install base in less than 2 months is that far behind haha
Yeesh, if Nintendo has a few big announcements for August-October at E3 this thing will not be easy to find until 2018 will it...
Yeesh, if Nintendo has a few big announcements for August-October at E3 this thing will not be easy to find until 2018 will it...
lwilliams3
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What was the userbase of the 3DS and Wii U when Mario Kart came out in the U.K.? Does the Switch already have a bigger base than the Wii U?
I believe that is all (physically released) software.