Mario Kart 8 Boosts Wii U Sales 400% in Americas

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Seece on 11 June 2014

Coming from Nintendo's Analyst meeting at E3 from David Gibbson.

#Nintendo said MK8 attach rate in US was 18% versus 7% for MK7. MK8 boosted WiiU sales 4.1x week over week v. MK7 2.4x

#Nintendo in analyst meeting said in usa sold 450k of MK8 in 3 days versus 250k on MK7.

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For reference, VGC has 611%

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MK spot on!! Gooo wiiU!!

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Seece on 11 June 2014

Ka-pi96 said:
Big boost! Mario Kart has really done well for Nintendo so far.

It's been ok, this suggests the boost was around 48k in the US (60k overall launch week) rather than the 78k we posted.

So we're looking at

US - 60k
UK - 12k
Japan - 19k
France - 20k
Total - 111k

Rest of the world - 46k according to VGC

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t3mporary_126 on 11 June 2014

Seece said:
For reference, VGC has 611%

Looks like VGC overtracked again. Good thing we got the official numbers now so we can change it quicker. Still an impressive boost but off by 200% is a lot.

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Seece said:

Ka-pi96 said:
Big boost! Mario Kart has really done well for Nintendo so far.

It's been ok, this suggests the boost was around 36k in the US (48k overall launch week) rather than the 78k we posted.

So we're looking at

US - 48k
UK - 12k
Japan - 19k
France - 20k
Total - 99k

Rest of the world - 58k according to VGC

Or the week before could've been higher due to hype

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t3mporary_126 said:

Seece said:
For reference, VGC has 611%

Looks like VGC overtracked again. Good thing we got the official numbers now so we can change it quicker. Still an impressive boost but off by 200% is a lot.

You can't compare percentages like that without knowing if the baseline is the same...

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