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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Will Mario Kart 8 hit One million sales First Week Globally?

 

Sales? FW Globally

200-350 thousand 57 7.22%
 
350-500 thousand 141 17.85%
 
500-750 thousand 187 23.67%
 
750 thoudand- 1 million 144 18.23%
 
1,000,000 plus 200 25.32%
 
other post below 3 0.38%
 
see results 57 7.22%
 
Total:789
vivster said:
I'm skeptical. It would have to sell as many copies as there are MK8 threads in this forum.


That's impossible.



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tbone51 said:
leyendax69 said:
Impossible if the preorders here are something to trust, mre like 500k worldwide.


No they shouldn't be trusted (not disagreeing with your prediction

Well, from the time I'm here they are always very close with the fw of sales excepting rpgs and a few others.



In my prediction thread I said 750k, but it's most likely going to be a bit lower! Maybe 600k or so!



                
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Wii U owners are starved for games, and this looks to be the best MK yet. Combine that with the bundles, and a decent advertising push, I wouldn't be surprised to see it break 1mil week one.



500k I reckon, but I'm doing my part. Decided to buy it after all :) looks so much fun.



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Easily



Zero999 said:

Easily


Why would you think easily? This is WiiU not Wii! MK7 did 1mil on holiday and on 3DS.

I hope it does close to a million, heck even pass it might be a possibility, but no way in hell Easily. Cuz you make it sound like it'll do 1.5mil-2mil FW



Well, they got 1 guaranteed sale!

I don't see it breaking a million. But it should comfortably hit 500k IMO. I'd love to be wrong though, especially if that other 500k came from new Wii U hardware sales.



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400k.
1m in the first month, keep 100k per week until august.
in holidays it will explode.
i bet in 5m til end of year.



10% of the Wii U's 7.3 million (by then) userbase, buying Mario Kart 8 at launch, sounds possible.  That'd put the game at about 730,000 in sales, globally.  If you factor in the great deal that is the new Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle...then you can definitely see perhaps a bump to 70,000 consoles sold for that week (if not more).  And if you add those console sales that include MK8 to the stand alone copy of the game, I'll go ahead and say that MK8's week one global release will equal 800,000 copies.

It'll be really interesting if MK8 really exceeds expectations and Nintendo just dominates with a marketing push...pulling off Number One in global console sales for a week or two.

That topic on its own would make for an interesting thread in my opinion.  So basically, instead of seeing a jump from 30,000 globally to 70,000 globally, for two weeks, can Wii U achieve say 150,000 followed by 130,000, edging out PS4 and 3DS by a good margin?