About half of all Nintendo Switch owners bought 'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'
 

About half of all Nintendo Switch owners bought 'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'
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Nintendo is celebrating a successful launch for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

The game — which, it's worth **ting, is a souped-up re-release of a 2014 Wii U game — sold 459,000 units. That figure that includes both cartridge and download sales, and only covers the April 28 launch day.

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In the three days since launch, roughly 45 percent of Switch owners have picked up Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. With roughly 2.7 million consoles sold worldwide, that means around 740,000 more copies of the game sold between April 29 and May 1.

The launch marks Nintendo's best to date for the Mario Kart ******, which is consistently one of the top titles across all the company's hardwareMario Kart Wii was the previous record-holder, with roughly 433,900 launch sales. Read more...

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