UK Charts: It's The Final Week Before The Switch 2 Floodgates Open

MKW number 1 next week by any chance?! 3 days to go!!! Ps after what came out of my bank account last week, I wish I could afford to get a game from this list!

It would be the funniest thing ever if MK8D still managed to outsell MK World in the charts next week

I am really hyped!!!

So many games i want lol. My poor wallet..

Checked my Credit Card app this morning, never been more excited to see a pending charge for £429.99 😆 not even for me, it’s for my son for Christmas but still, buzzing! Nice to see Hogwarts reigning supreme and selling most on Switch. Love to see it

Do the charts include pack ins? I can't imagine many MKWs being bought outside the SW2 bundle certainly in the early days of SW2.

I get the physical collectors, but that's £40 more to get the console and MKW seperate.

Yes, like many others I was thrilled to see my bank account debited for the cost of a Switch 2 this morning.

Despite owning all consoles this is the first I've ordered on day one since the original PlayStation back in 1995! Back then I spent £300 on the console itself (according to Google that'd be over £700 today?!), plus £50 each for 3 games, £20 for a memory card, and £20 for a second controller.

Despite my excitement for Switch 2 (which is very, very high!) nothing will ever match the jump in experience going from SNES to PlayStation. It was MINDBLOWING to play Ridge Racer at home, and then Wipeout and Battle Arena Toshinden - not to mention Tekken soon after - just brought gaming to an all-new level of excitement.

Whoever's getting a Switch 2, and however soon you get to enjoy it, wishing you the very best time with it!

Should add that I only ordered mine a week ago, so had to buy MKW separately since the bundles were sold out everywhere!

Hogwarts Legacy still hasn't got the memo about people buying Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games.

@nhSnork You're telling me Harry isn't the third Mario brother? My worldview is shattered.

Even in the last week before switch 2 and a brand new Mario kart comes out Mario Kart 8 is still selling. Never thought almost exactly 11 years ago that this game would not only be a best seller on Wii U but on the follow up system too. Can’t wait to finally play the next game in the series whenever my target store decides the real date it will send it to me. Hopefully that is this week and not the 11th that it has as the estimate.

@Duncanballs I don't think they would include Mario Kart World pack-ins as it's a digital download so Mario Kart 8 may indeed be higher in the chart than Mario Kart World next week @Nintoz!

@evanac
'Despite my excitement for Switch 2 (which is very, very high!) nothing will ever match the jump in experience going from SNES to PlayStation. It was MINDBLOWING to play Ridge Racer at home, and then Wipeout and Battle Arena Toshinden - not to mention Tekken soon after - just brought gaming to an all-new level of excitement.'

Get Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer, Fast Fusion and play Soul Caliber 2 on NSO and you could pretty recreate that experience all over again! 😉

Mario Kart World digital copies won't be in here though. And with the $30 discount, it will mostly be sold digitally. Or whatever the price difference is in the UK.

The fact that Switch still pulls a sizable % in the multiplats even now surprises me.

@Suketoudara
Digital download codes sold at retail are still physical products. Sales of Mario Kart World sold from the Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundles will be tracked.

A week off work just as the Switch 2 drops. Cannot effing wait!

@sanderev yeah, I’d love one myself but I really like that the first Switch 2 in my house will be my son’s alone, as much as I want one myself. Same for the Switch 1, he got his from Santa and I got one the following May for myself. I would have waited but I was afraid of missing out on the MKW hardware bundle, so secured it with my flexible friend.

Everyone’s talking about MK8DX, but can we talk about Mario Odyssey for a second?? It came out in 2017, and is still selling today. I know it’s probably because of the Switch 2 upgrade, but wow, I thought everybody had it at this point, lol. Feel like it’s always on sale

I feel like most of my questions have been answered so far except...

WILL THE DOCK BE LOUD? I'm fearful of a PS3 jet engine

If you'd told me 11 years ago that the Mario Kart Game that just came out would be the most consistent top-seller for Nintendo all the way through the next generation, I'd have said you were crazy.

@Pak-Man Yeah same. It's insane to think about.

MY BODY IS READY

Is anyone else flummoxed by how people are still buying Mario Kart 8. Maybe Nintendo made a mistake by doing World given how 8 still has legs (bizarrely).

@montrayjak <Hello, this is your captain speaking. The PS3 will be taking off shortly, so please fasten all seatbelts and make sure that the trays are in a upward position.>

@CutMan003 Thankfully, the dock is whisper quiet!

@montrayjak That's good. I don't know what I'd do if the dock woke everyone up at 6 AM on Splatfest weekends.