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Mario Kart 8 Sells 1.2 Million In Opening Weekend

Ishaan SahdevBy
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That didn’t take long. Nintendo have released sales figures for Mario Kart 8, reporting that the game has sold over 1.2 million copies across Japan, Europe and America in its opening weekend.   Additionally, Nintendo also provided total sales figures to date for every Mario Kart game released thus far. Here’s how that looks:   Super Mario Kart Super Nintendo 8.76 million   Mario Kart 64 Nintendo 64 9.87 million   Mario Kart Advance Game Boy Advance 5.91 million   Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Nintendo GameCube 6.88 million   Mario Kart DS Nintendo DS 23.56 million   Mario Kart Wii Wii 35.53 million   Mario Kart 7 Nintendo 3DS 9.62 million   Total Mario Kart series sales: 100.13 million as of March 31st, 2014.

Ishaan Sahdev
About The Author
Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.