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Will Mario Kart 8 outsell Mario Kart Wii?

Yes, Switch version by itself will do it 35 46.67%
 
Yes, but only if you comb... 32 42.67%
 
No 8 10.67%
 
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trunkswd said:

As the title says do you think Mario Kart 8 (Wii U + NS) has a chance of catching up and beating the sales of Mario Kart Wii to become the best-selling Mario Kart game of all time? Do you think the Switch version by itself can outsell Mario Kart Wii?

Yes...... as long as they dont release Mario Kart 9 anytime soon.



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Maybe. I hope so. The best entry should outsell the worst entry.



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Deeds said:
trunkswd said:

As the title says do you think Mario Kart 8 (Wii U + NS) has a chance of catching up and beating the sales of Mario Kart Wii to become the best-selling Mario Kart game of all time? Do you think the Switch version by itself can outsell Mario Kart Wii?

Yes...... as long as they dont release Mario Kart 9 anytime soon.

Yeah, I agree with that.



Combining both versions, I definitely think it'll pull it off. MK8D is shipping 1 million copies every quarter, and that's going to be way up this quarter thanks to the holidays.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's shipment data per quarter: Quarter (Total)
Q1 FY 2017: 3.54 million (3.54 million)
Q2 FY 2017: +0.88 million (4.42 million)
Q3 FY 2017: +2.91 million (7.33 million)
Q4 FY 2017: +1.89 million (9.22 million)
Q1 FY 2018: +1.13 million (10.35 million)
Q2 FY 2018: +1.36 million (11.71 million)
Q3 FY 2018: +3.31 million (15.02 million)
Q4 FY 2018: +1.67 million (16.69 million)
Q1 FY 2019: +1.20 million (17.89 million)
Q2 FY 2019: +1.12 million (19.01 million)

With ~10 million units to go & the legs it has, it can ship between 4-6 million units a year and can pull it off some time in 2021.

As for the Switch version, by itself. That's going to be a much tougher task. It needs to ship another ~18.3-18.5 million units to pull it off. That's going to be extremely difficult to accomplish, even for Mario Kart. I'm going to take a "wait and see" approach for that one.



Combined it looks like it will. Switch alone is possible as well, but that’s very far away. I think if will fall short, but that wouldn’t really be ‘failing’, MKWii’s legs were (are) insane.



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I'll be optimistic and say that MK8D can pull it off alone in the end unless Nintendo comes with a MK9 before 2021. And unless Nintendo brings out MK9 next year already, beating MKWii by combining Wii U and Switch numbers are already in the bag.

I mean, according to PAO's post MK8D sells about 7M a year on Switch right now. I do expect the sales to slow down a bit with time, but by end of 2021 it should sit at only 2-6 Millions from MKWii (3M this holiday season plus 5-7M per year in 2020 and 2021) unless a new one came out in between, which would drastically slow down the sales of MK8D.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 03 November 2019

It really depends on when MK9 releases. But combined I'd say yes. Just the Switch version? Leaning towards no at the moment.



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Without a doubt, it has yet to become a pack in title for Switch.



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Seems like the attach rate is staying in the 40-50% range. That is kind of nuts considering the game launched over 2 years ago, and is essentially just an enhanced port. The way it's selling the Switch version alone is going to pass the Wii version.



Switch+Wii U is pretty much certain. Switch-alone is possible, but we'll see.