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 specific bundled recreation from the Wii period. In keeping with Nintendo’s newest monetary report, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has offered 61.97 million items in whole as of March 31, 2024. The one different Nintendo recreation that has completed 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 solely.
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 checklist, the Wii is in second place with 4 video games, and the DS is in third place with a single entry, in keeping with Nintendo:
The ten best-selling Nintendo video games as of March 31, 2024
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe — 61.97 millionAnimal Crossing: New Horizons — 45.36 millionMario Kart Wii — 37.38 millionSuper Smash Bros. Final — 34.22 millionWii Sports activities Resort — 33.14 millionThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — 31.85 millionNew Tremendous Mario Bros. DS — 30.80 millionNew Tremendous Mario Bros. Wii — 30.32 millionWii Play — 28.02 millionSuper Mario Odyssey — 27.96 million
In case you are questioning the place Pokemon is on that checklist, the earlier two generations of the sport would nonetheless crack the Nintendo high 20 easily–Pokemon Sword and Protect have 26.27 million lifetime gross sales to this point whereas Pokemon Scarlet and Violet at the moment 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 latest 2023-2024 fiscal yr 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 yr, the corporate will host a Nintendo Direct in June to disclose extra upcoming Swap video games, however it will not be speaking about its Swap 2 console throughout this occasion.
