Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:34:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the best selling home console game in over a decade in Japan https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/mustafa-mahmoud/super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-the-best-selling-home-console-game-in-over-a-decade-in-japan/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/mustafa-mahmoud/super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-the-best-selling-home-console-game-in-over-a-decade-in-japan/#respond Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:56:55 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=442577 It goes without saying that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been a great success for Nintendo. With over 15 million copies sold, the game is currently the second best selling Switch title worldwide. With the latest Famitsu chart numbers being revealed however, it would appear that in Japan, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has become the …

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It goes without saying that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been a great success for Nintendo. With over 15 million copies sold, the game is currently the second best selling Switch title worldwide. With the latest Famitsu chart numbers being revealed however, it would appear that in Japan, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has become the best selling home console title in over a decade, with over 3.4 million copies sold in the country.

The Famitsu software sales, for the week ending the 15th of December (and translated by Gematsu), highlighted that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold a further 21,135 copies in Japan, putting the total sales of the title at 3,383,582 for the region. With that, market researcher, Stealth40K announced that the fighting game had become the “the most a console game has sold in Japan in well over 10 years”.

This is a significant achievement for the game, which recently won Best Fighting Game at the 2019 Game Awards, alongside a nomination for Game of the Year. Worldwide, the game has sold 15.71 million copies, as of the 30th of September. This makes it the second best selling Switch title, behind Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s 19.01 million. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s sales achievement in Japan encompasses all home consoles, not just the Switch however, highlighting the true popularity of the franchise in the region.

According to Stealth40K, it might not hold on to that title for too long however. Pokémon Sword and Shield sold 231,578 copies in the week ending the 15th of December, putting its total sales in Japan at 2,456,459, with Stealth40K claiming that “If Pokemon Sword/Shield keeps selling like this, it's going to get very close.”

Either way, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been a smashing success. The game is continually being updated with new fighters across a plethora of franchises, making the crossover fighting game even bigger and better.

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the fastest selling game in the series https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/mario-kart-8-deluxe-is-the-fastest-selling-game-in-the-series/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/mario-kart-8-deluxe-is-the-fastest-selling-game-in-the-series/#comments Tue, 02 May 2017 09:47:57 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=332323 On Friday, the Nintendo Switch received its next big launch window game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. While this wasn't a totally brand new release, the Deluxe edition does feature some nice upgrades over the original Wii U version of Mario Kart 8 and it appears this has swiftly garnered it some popularity. This week, Mario …

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On Friday, the Nintendo Switch received its next big launch window game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. While this wasn't a totally brand new release, the Deluxe edition does feature some nice upgrades over the original Wii U version of Mario Kart 8 and it appears this has swiftly garnered it some popularity. This week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was confirmed to be the fastest selling game in the series to date.

The game is off to a strong start in both the US and UK. Here in the UK, the game has topped retail charts, making Mario Kart 8 Deluxe the first Nintendo-published game to do so since Pokemon White. In the US, we have some more concrete numbers, with the game shifting 459,000 copies on launch day.

Here are the top selling games at UK retail this week, via Chart-track:
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
GTA5
Little Nightmares
Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Lego Worlds
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
COD: Infinite Warfare
FIFA 17
Horizon: Zero Dawn

This all follows news that Nintendo has already managed to sell 2.7 million Switch consoles since launch and there is still plenty of demand. The console has routinely been going out of stock in several countries and with Nintendo's summer lineup of games looking fairly strong, high sales should continue.

KitGuru Says: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe may technically be a ‘remaster' but a lot of people skipped the Wii U generation, so re-releasing the game has introduced it to a new audience. Have any of you played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe yet? I played it quite a bit over the weekend myself.

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