Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has handed a brand new milestone, as it’s now Nintendo’s best-selling recreation of all time–if you do not depend one explicit bundled recreation from the Wii period. In accordance with Nintendo’s newest monetary report, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has offered 61.97 million items in complete as of March 31, 2024. The one different Nintendo recreation that has accomplished higher is Wii Sports activities at 82.90 million items offered, however contemplating that the sport was bundled in with a Wii console, it’s in a special class totally.
Compared, the remainder of Nintendo’s top-performing video games embody varied titles throughout a number of platforms. 5 Swap video games are on the record, the Wii is in second place with 4 video games, and the DS is in third place with a single entry, according to Nintendo:
The ten best-selling Nintendo video games as of March 31, 2024
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe — 61.97 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons — 45.36 million
- Mario Kart Wii — 37.38 million
- Tremendous Smash Bros. Final — 34.22 million
- Wii Sports activities Resort — 33.14 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — 31.85 million
- New Tremendous Mario Bros. DS — 30.80 million
- New Tremendous Mario Bros. Wii — 30.32 million
- Wii Play — 28.02 million
- Tremendous Mario Odyssey — 27.96 million
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In case you are questioning the place Pokemon is on that record, the earlier two generations of the sport would nonetheless crack the Nintendo prime 20 easily–Pokemon Sword and Defend have 26.27 million lifetime gross sales to date whereas Pokemon Scarlet and Violet presently sit at 24.92 million–and different notable entries embody Wii Match, Nintendogs, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Different fascinating information from Nintendo’s breakdown of its current 2023-2024 fiscal 12 months is that Swap {hardware} declined by 12.6% year-on-year from 17.97 million to fifteen.70 million. Lifetime gross sales for the Swap are at 141.32 million consoles offered, together with 1.235 billion video games offered.
Because it enters the latter half of the 12 months, the corporate will host a Nintendo Direct in June to disclose extra upcoming Swap video games, nevertheless it will not be speaking about its Swap 2 console throughout this occasion.