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Polygon predicted in 2014 that Mario Kart 8 would be the worst selling game in the series.
Even on Wii U they were wrong, with it comfortably beating Super Circuit and Double Dash; once you count it's sales on Switch though, it went on to become not only by far the best selling Mario Kart game ever, but one of the highest selling full retail games of all time:
https://www.polygon.com/2014/5/15/5718168/mario-kart-series-sales
