Zekkyou on 01 May 2017
| celador said: i'm really confused about the shock in the comments so far. It's Mario Kart on a system with only one other big game that released two months ago, of course it's going to sell well now hopefully Nintendo can sort out the network issues it's apparently having on the game, going to be difficult with how many people must be playing it right now |
I don't think it's unreasonably to be surprised by just how well it's done, but some people's shock does seem a bit exaggerated. 45% of US Switch overs buying it day 1 says a lot about who currently owns a Switch, and the time that has passed since its last major release.
Stating such things seems to really ruffle some people's feathers though, which is silly. It doesn't undermine the achievement, it just adds context. It's no different than pointing out that Horizon benefited from a large install-base, or Zelda benefits from being a launch title, or Persona 5 was number 1 in the UK in large part because of a lack of other major releases. Bleh.
