I remember when the game was five or six years old and it was still selling out during Christmas season. Saw desperate ads on Austin craigslist asking to buy used copy from someone for 60 dollars.

We Double Dash fans are used to other people voicing incorrect opinions on the best MK ;P

That was because of "the casualz!!" Mario Kart Wii was criticised for being a casual game by many gamers, just like basically every other Wii game Nintendo published back then. Of course, every other Mario Kart game would qualify as "casual", too. But back then it was a big deal and people used it as an example to prove that the Wii wasn't for real gamers. I wrote the vgchartz review for the game and oh boy, the war was real.

I lean DD and the nostalgia for the original SNES version, but loved the Wii version all the same and have no issues with those that liked that one best.

I was never a big fan of MKWii honestly. My favorites are MKDS, MK7, MK8(D), in that order.

But damn, 100k for a 10-yr-old twice-succeeded (arguably thrice-succeeded) game? That's intense.

Let me read that book of yours

Doing better than a lot of launch games.

These news are making me upset. The Wii had some gems in it's library, and they weren't commercially successful; Fragile Dreams, The Last Story, The Crystal Bearers, Excitebots Trick Racing, etc. They died on release date, meanwhile Mario is out here selling 100k over a decade after release.

It is a shame that a lot of excellent Wii games got overlooked; I'd add the likes of Sin & Punishment Star Successor and Silent Hill Shattered Memories to that list. Still, I don't begrudge Mario Kart its success. It really did earn it, it bridged the new and traditional gamer demographics arguably better than any other game on the console. Its chaotic multiplayer mayhem was something almost anybody could sit back and enjoy on the couch with friends and family, from the blue ocean crowd brought in by Wii Sports to those who'd been gaming for decades.

Ask me anything you like. ;)

From about 2011 onward, I saw it as the normie Mario Kart. While I played Double Dash, DS, 7, 8, etc. so many people think of Mario Kart Wii. I don't see MK8D outselling it, but MK8D is doing insanely well for a port. I wouldn't have predicted it would be the best-selling game on Switch.