200K is great number. I agree...

Mario Kart is a series which can easily do double or even four times as much as 8.31 million units. If the Switch manages to sell at PS4 levels for at leaSt four years a Mario Kart title will at least sell 20 million units. So even though 8 million itself isn't few for a Mario Kart it kinda is. If a GTA title would only sell 8 million units on a PS console the same installment will undoubtedly have more impact on the next gen. If we look at attachment rate Mario Kart 8 had over 50% on WII U. By March 2018 the Switch will already surpass the total Wii U userbase. Mario Kart 8 will probably sell as good as a regular Mario Kart title since it will be a new title for a huge part of the userbase of the Switch which didn't have a Wii U. The PS4 is largely bought by people who already owned a PS3 so ports won't have as much of an impact as Wii U ports will have for Switch.

sub 100k

Well, maybe, but so far the Switch never dipped below 200K. And it was all supply constraints, because even without Mario Kart the sales bounced higher again. Meaning the sales going as low as 200K was not because demand was that low, it was because supply was that low. Talking about a sub 100K baseline is just speculation, I could as well speculate the demand for the Switch is 400K per week, but cannot materialize because the supply isn't there. So can we start talk about depressing baselines and the Nintendo cycle then the sales actually settle and we see the true momentum? And so far talking about any baseline below 200K (the lowest we have seen so far) sounds like crazytalk.

Well, we can see when the Scorpio releases.

Mario Kart 7, which is vastely inferior to Mario Kart 8, let alone deluxe sold somelike like 33 million or so copies. So there are at least 25 million people who never got to play Mario Kart 8. I would say that is MANY.

MKWii sold that many, not MK7.

Go Switch, go!

Excited to see the numbers this holiday season.

- Moderated, Rol

From Nintendo's perspective, they have to be happy with a system launching at essentially the same price as its predecessor and outperforming it. 

Isn't that the ultimate goal here: growth?

I agree; my assumption was that they were selling at a comparable profit: Nintendo has been pretty good about achieving that.

Wii numbers are the actual target? That's aiming insanely high, because I don't think the market has nearly the footprint it once did. With the prevalence of tablets, smartphones, etc., it seems wise to expect contraction.

Wii+DS did 255 million so Switch selling 100 million is a sizeable contraction.

On the other hand, 3DS+Wii U will have sold over 85 million when all is said and done and both of those systems heavily flawed conpared to Switch so a 15% increase isnt out of the question.