People are really thirsty for racing as kids/squids.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the latest Switch title to break sales records.
According to UK industry tracking, the Switch re-release was the best selling game in the country last week. Although no sales figures were available, it was the first top spot for Nintendo in general in six years (2011's Pokémon White) and the first Mario title to top the chart since 2008 (Mario Kart Wii).
The sales mania is also running wild in the United States, as according to Nintendo nearly half of all Switch owners bought the game on its release day last Friday. The over 450,000 sales (physical + digital) on day one break another record held by Mario Kart Wii, which ended up as the second best selling game on the Wii.
Loyal Nintendo fans got to play Mario Kart 8 a full two years before everyone else, among many other Wii U games for varying periods of time before everyone else. If that's "punishment" then I don't mind.
I think this demonstrates the idea that a game like Mario Kart is not a system seller but it sells big with an existing userbase. We need a name for a type of game like that.
System Justification Game?
Installed Userbase Mustbuy?
I think this demonstrates the idea that a game like Mario Kart is not a system seller but it sells big with an existing userbase. We need a name for a type of game like that. Both the Gamecube and Wii U had Mario Kart and both systems underperformed. Mario Kart Wii however is one of the highest selling games ever. This is literally the same game that couldn't move Wii U's and it's beating day one records set by Mario Kart Wii. I think that proves it. Mario Kart doesn't convince people to buy a Nintendo console but if they already own a Nintendo console for another reason (Breath of the Wild in this case) they sure as hell are buying Mario Kart. I suspect the same for 2D Mario platformers due to the vast sales difference between NSMB on the Wii and Wii U.
Though I find it rather ironic that as a Wii U owner I already have the two biggest hits on the Switch. There is no incentive for me to even consider a Switch purchase at this point. This is the videogame equivalent of "if you haven't seen it, it's new to you!"
I think this demonstrates the idea that a game like Mario Kart is not a system seller but it sells big with an existing userbase.If you look at the system sales for GCN, Wii, Wii U, DS, and 3DS, they all went up when their respective Mario Kart game released, so there's no doubt that Mario Kart sells systems. I would say what this shows is that a system still needs to be a good / desirable system in order for games to sell it. People like the idea of the Switch, but few cared about the concept of Wii U.
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