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NintendoPie said:

Max King of the Wild said:

Digital is still probably significant. Wasnt there someone from a company saying digital accounts for about 1/3 the sales for XB1 and Ps4. Now, obviously Wii U wouldn't have that kind of number but I wouldn't find 10-15% hard to believe. That's 200-300k worth of sales.

I'm thinking more around 100k. 200k is plausible, but 300k is stretching it. 

This was Nintendo's statement last year for digital sales:

"We have 15 Nintendo-published titles available, both physically and digitally [on the 3DS]," he says. "So far in 2013, of those 15 available in this format, 11 percent of sales have come through full digital downloads of those games."

Digital sales have become more and more popular (and digital sales are probably more popular on the Wii U than 3DS), so let's say the 11% has increased to 15% since last year, using VGC data that would make MK8 digital sales around 235k. This is assumption of course, but 300k isn't that hard to imagine. It also helps that MK8 has a relatively small size (4.9 GB), a game like DK: Tropical Freeze (which is 11.4 GB) would be lucky to even reach 100k digital sales.