Mario Kart 8 sells 1.2 million over first weekend

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Twilord on 02 June 2014

EricFabian said:
everyone lost the bet.

Surprising numbers for everyone

I... uhhh,... well, I saw it coming. Kinda expecting the Wii-U to sell up to 2 million over the next two months.

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Mummelmann on 02 June 2014

Insane! I had it pegged for 550k worldwide since the Wii U has about 1/4 the installed base of the Wii at the time launch. Just shows how starved Wii U owners are for 1st party goodness! Mighty impressive, can't wait to see the hardware numbers!

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DarkRPGamer007 on 02 June 2014

HAHA I knew it would sell more than Titanfall and inFamous. Took them over 3 weeks to sell 1m and it took Mario Kart a weekend

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tbone51 on 02 June 2014

SM3DW had a slow first week, 100K in Japan, and less than 200K first month in NA. Now it was at 2.21 million with like a 33%ish attach rate recently.

And SM3DW wasn't bundled.

I also predicted MK8 will be bundled in Japan starting in Oct/Nov as the holiday bundle!

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DarkRPGamer007 on 02 June 2014

Hardware is up 666% in UK alone, so I think hardware is pretty strong with sales.

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dahuman on 02 June 2014

color me surprised.

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fluky-nintendy on 02 June 2014

Impressive numbers but that is expected when the fanbase buy a WiiU to play these games. Now what Iam eager to contemplate is how many hardware it will move and that's, obviously, where Nintendo has to prove something.

...Let the Sony Domination continue with the PS4...

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DeathbyCodec on 02 June 2014

tbone51 said:

vivster said:

So there is a chance for MK8 to be the worst selling MK of all times.

What makes you come out of nowhere and say that? Kinda random :-/

It should outsell NSMBU which sits at 4mil and still growing. I think the lowestis 5.5mil (gba), if WiiU sells at least 14mil lifetime, mk8 should be about 6mil sold imo.

Isn't that proving tbone51's point? If Mario Kart 8 sells roughly 6 million copies, that is less than every single Mario Kart game except for Mario Kart: Super Circuit on the Game Boy Advance (as you've pointed out).

(Not approving of Polygon's incorrect forecast, but using it to show lifetime sales of previous Mario Kart games)