Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Zooms Back To Sixth Place In UK Charts, Other Mario Titles Just Miss Top Ten

How awesome would RDR2 be on Switch... do some bounty hunts or fishing on the train... a dream. Of course with way worse technic. But still a dream.

@Reaast I'm still hoping they will port the original one over to the Switch seeing as it extremely unlikely the Switch will ever get the second one.

It was good to see copies of Diablo in my local Game store this weekend, so it can hopefully continue to sell into Christmas

Ugggh.... 🙄
Typical....

Christmas run up and period is always when AAA games and Mass Market games dominate and Nintendo has yet to release any this year. One AAA and one Mass Market planned for this year.

Yet you can only wonder the state of the industry when BLOPS 4 ranks highly, made half a billion in 3 days and is still considered a financial disappointment.

UK is an insignificant market

Hopefully this could be an incentive for Nintendo to release new DLC for Mario Kart. Id be happy to fork out for a few new & remade tracks.

@Yenkman me too Mario kart 8 gets a lot of play in my house would love some new tracks

@manu0 If you mean compared to the US, then that's true. If you mean generally, then that's not true. The UK games market is the second biggest in the world and was worth just over £5 billion last year. (And that's bigger than movies and music combined by the way!)

I think it's about time we had Mario kart 9 NINTENDO! I've been playing mk8 since the Wii u.

@nocdaes where did you get this numbers from? Just interested. Thanks!

@manu0
Are you trying to tell me those three games don't top the chart in your country too?

Loads of Switch games in the UK Top 40 Individual, great stuff.

@Reaast Every year UKIE (United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment - they represent the UK games industry) run a report on the value of the market. It looks at everything from software, hardware, digital, mobile, events, books, toys, pre-owned games etc. associated with the games industry in the UK. If you search for "UKIE Games Market Value" you'll find the report for 2017 (and previous years).

Whould love some dc, or ofcourse mk9

About time we got some dlc for mk8 deluxe isn't it?

It's pretty insane that Mario Kart 8 DX is outselling everything except the most recent hits from the last 2 months.

Basically people play the same 4 games on Switch for the last 20 months. Every generation - wait for the same Nintendo games (let everything else fail in between). Rinse and repeat. 🙄

@Reaast
Would be nice, but it is pretty much a pipe dream. No way The Switch is handling RDR2

@Agramonte there are currently 13 Nintendo Switch games in the UK Top 40 Individual Format Chart, and one 3DS game. So Nintendo occupy almost a third of the chart.

Pokemon will do fine, it won't topple the giants but it will be somewhere in the top 10.

Even if you don't like its dumbed down mechanics, kids will still eat it up.

@Agramonte What does failure mean to you? Almost every Nintendo published title has sold great for it's respective series. On the third party front Bethesda recently said that Switch development has become a priority so their games must be doing well enough, and the success of Octopath Traveler actually surprised Square. This isn't even mentioning the success many indy titles are seeing on Switch. A game doesn't have to sell 8-9 million to be considered a success.

@manu0 Just like Japan. Only Global sales matter in my opinion, but you don't want to look at those.

@Callmegil how do you know i don't want to look a those lol?

@RetroLifer pretty insignificant, but more signifianct than UK

I am just surprised at how long the Crash trilogy has been selling well. They were never highlight platformers IMO.

@Agramonte
Nintendo players only buy the same 4 games. That's why there are 13 Switch game's among the Top 40 best-sellers of the week - the other 9 games are just an illusion.

@westman98 don't forget MK7! It's actually climbing the charts. Maybe that's an illusion too?

@Captain_EO
A 7 year-old illusion no less.

In all seriousness, it's quite impressive to see Nintendo rebound this much in the UK after the disaster that was the Wii U. The 3DS didn't do that much better TBH.

The UK is still a weak market for Nintendo (there are games that sell more in Spain or Italy despite the Spanish/Italian Switch install base being half of the UK Switch install base), but Nintendo has definitely laid a solid foundation after years of instability.

@westman98 I think the fact a launch title is still charting coming up on two years later suggests the Switch is still selling week in week out. It's great to see.

@manu0 Educated guess.

Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee just released and sold ~118,000 retail copies at launch in the UK. That makes it the fastest-selling Switch game ever by a big margin (Super Mario Odyssey was held the previous record, with ~85,000 retail copies sold at launch).

Retail launch sales comparison for the last several Pokemon titles:
Platinum: ~59,000
Heart Gold / Soul Silver: ~90,000
Black / White: ~135,000
Black 2/ White 2: ~62,000
X / Y: ~126,000
Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire: ~145,000
Sun / Moon: ~300,000
Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon: ~78,000
Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee: ~118,000

If digital sales were included for Let's Go, its launch would be bigger than X / Y and possibly bigger than Black / White as well.

Nothing comes close to Sun / Moon's launch, which was the biggest in Nintendo's history in both Europe and the United States.

I'm just amazed that GTA V rarely falls out of the top 40 there even up to now. Heck, it even makes top 20 most times.