Mario Kart 8 again more of 100K this week!

[Ganoncrotch]

AnthonyW86 said:

Mario Kart 7

03rd December 2011	1	684,108	N/A	684,108
10th December 2011	2	1,181,930	72.8%	1,866,038
17th December 2011	3	742,885	-37.1%	2,608,923
24th December 2011	4	885,133	19.1%	3,494,056
31st December 2011	5	394,038	-55.5%	3,888,094
07th January 2012	6	293,743	-25.5%	4,181,837

And 3DS hade an install base of just over 6m at the time aswell. Yes it launched in the holiday season but MK games sell beter on the consoles than on handhelds.

MK8 hade a nice launch, but then again it launched worldwide in the same week only making it look bigger in comparison. it's aleady falling behind Double (in the U.S. atleast)but that launched during the holidays aswell.

I'm not trying to bash anything here, just keeping things realistic. Past Mario Kart console games ended up with an attach rate of about 30%-35%, and it is getting close to that already. In other words Wii-U hardware sales would have to pick up further for MK8 to keep momentum. That or this 100k is already overtracked.

We will probably have to wait till the holidays to really see if it can keep up.

Oh yeah I get what you're saying, basically if MK8 is to continue selling then it would need to reach 50%-75% attach rate which is pretty inconcievable regardless of the games quality.

One point tho, while that is perfectly 100% correct what you're getting at, while you have your current avatar on here people may just disregard your posts as anti Nintendo/Wii-U I'll be honest and say I've made some choices about certain posts people make on here if they've got like 70 "I love Sony" gifs in their sig and they're talking in a Xbox future strategy thread about how they think the best move would be for Microsoft to close down now and call it a day :D if you get what I mean?