Mario Kart 8 has outsold Mario Kart World for 2 months straight in the US, but since "over 80%" of Switch 2 owners already have World via console bundle, that "kind of makes it impossible" to outdo the 11-year series GOAT

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Not even a new Mario Kart can stop 8's reign of sales supremacy

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe screenshot shows Mario and Inkling racing.
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Mario Kart World is arguably the biggest game on Nintendo Switch 2 in terms of mainstream appeal – even if we all know Donkey Kong Bananza is the superior year one title. But incredibly, it hasn't even been the best-selling Mario Kart game in the US over the past few months, an honor that belongs to its venerable predecessor, Mario Kart 8.

As you'd expect, Mario Kart World was the best-selling Nintendo game (on any platform) for the month of June, when it launched alongside Switch 2, according to data from industry analyst group Circana shared by Mat Piscatella on Bluesky. There are two caveats to this data and all that follows: Circana only tracks the US market, and Nintendo does not share digital sales data, so all this information pertains specifically to the physical games market in the region.

Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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