Mario Kart 8 Sells 1.2 Million In Opening Weekend

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Jun 2, 2014 11:00 am

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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.

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Ishaan Sahdev

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.