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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the fastest selling Mario Kart title ever

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is speeding into Nintendo’s record books with more than 459K retail and digital sales, combined, on launch day.  They also announced a solid 45% attach rate for the game, which is super impressive.

Of course another wave of Nintendo Switch systems also being made available certainly didn’t hurt either.  Their current figures put worldwide Switch sales at over 2.7 million units.  Nice!

See the announcement below.

With more than 459,000 combined packaged and digital sales in the U.S. on launch day alone (April 28), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch system is the fastest-selling game in the long-running Mario Kart series. The previous record holder for the highest first-day sales in the franchise was Mario Kart Wii, with U.S. sales of approximately 433,900 when it launched in 2008. The solid sales numbers for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe equate to an attach rate of 45 percent ? meaning nearly one in two Nintendo Switch owners in the U.S. purchased a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the first day it was available. To date, more than 2.7 million Nintendo Switch systems have been sold globally.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has also received more perfect review scores than any other Mario Kart game ever. With a current Metacritic score of 93, the critically acclaimed title is the highest-rated game in the series in 15 years ? tying the overall review score of Mario Kart: Super Circuit for Game Boy Advance.

To continue this strong momentum into the summer, a series of great games will launch for Nintendo Switch over the next few months, including Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (May 11), Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers (May 26), ARMS (June 16) and Splatoon 2 (July 21).

For more information about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, visit http://mariokart8.nintendo.com/. For more information about Nintendo Switch, visit http://www.nintendo.com/switch/.

Paul Bryant

Staff Writer

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