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NEWS: Mario Kart 8 Sells Over 1.2 Million During 1st Weekend

Take that, people who said that not all that many people will purchase the same electronic trinket that I bought!

Ubisoft take their second All Formats No1 of the year, and smash the week 1 sales record for new IP in the process as event title ‘Watch Dogs’ takes the crown.

It eclipses the new IP record set by ‘L.A Noire’ three years ago with an increase of 58%. In terms of units, ‘Watch Dogs’ breaks into the Top 20 for best ever launch weeks taking 17th spot on the list. The new release finds itself in good company with only titles from mega-brands GTA, Call of Duty, FIFA & Battlefield ahead of it. For Ubisoft it’s also a personal best with ‘Watch Dogs’ beating ‘Assassin’s Creed III’ as their biggest launch in the UK by 17%. By format PS4 dominates software sales, boosted by exclusive content and the release of a new Watch Dogs hardware bundle. This accounts for just over 53% of PS4 hardware sales while claiming the credit for a near 94% increase in total sales for the PS4 hardware format this week.

While there is no contest for top spot Wii U exclusive ‘Mario Kart 8’ races comfortably into second place. The much loved series makes an impressive debut becoming the bestselling week 1 for any Wii U title since launch and the second best in the Mario Kart series ever. ‘Mario Kart 8’ like ‘Watch Dogs’ also launches an official hardware bundle this week boosting the sales of Wii U hardware by a whopping 666%, of which 82% are the Mario Kart 8 Bundle. Last week’s No1 ‘Wolfenstein: The New Order’ (-65%) makes way for the newcomers, dropping down to round off the Top 3. With half term in full swing many titles benefit from increased sales. ‘FIFA 14’ (+46%) is at No4 while ‘Minecraft: PS3 Edition’ (+20%) continues to sell strongly despite dropping to No5. Outside the Top 10 there’s a re-entry for ‘Borderlands 2’ which is propelled back into the chart at No18 thanks to the release of the new PS Vita version.

Nintendo diehards haven't even played the first bayo and they sure
weren't there for Xenoblade.

Nintendo cycle


Speak for yourself, brah. Played those on release day. Bayo 2 wouldn't even exist without Nintendo. That's cool in my book.

ShatteredWorld wrote:

"Mario Kart 8 won't sell!" they said. "The Pii U is doomed!" they chanted. "The Wii U will never have great games!" It feels so great to swim in the tears of Nintendo haters

The console still doesn't have a system-seller title for non-Nintendo diehards. What's the current install base of the Wii U? Of course this game is going to be a must-have for people who already own the console, but thinking that this is going to push many console sales is crazy. I don't even think Smash will be that much of a system seller, either, except from the hardcore Nintendo fan and fighting game community overlap, which for the record is not that big.

Like the previous comment... call me when X and Bayonetta 2 come out. I'll almost certainly get MK8 and SSB4 when that happens, but until then, whatevs, I've got Sonic All Stars to tide me over until then.

He then lists games like Bayo 2 and X as games that people who don't care about Mario and the like may buy a system for. That's hardly even half right...

Xenoblade... has cache outside of the typical Nintendo audience.

Then that would mean you are in fact not a Nintendo diehard since clearly you have another system to play Bayonetta one.

Logic isn't one of your strong points, is it? While by no means a "system-seller", there will indeed be people who buy a Wii U for X who aren't interested in Mario games..

I really dislike Nintendo fanboyism that tries to paint any negativity into this big conspiracy.

You asked for proof and when someone gives you proof you ignore it and choose to personally attack them instead. You're not making your side look very favorable, Rahxephon91.

And I got to say the way you keep lumping "Nintendo fans" in one group just sort of paints your own bias on the subject pretty clear.

I guess nothing anyone says is going to be treated fairly by you.

Fact of the matter is Nintendo doesn't play by the rules of what the modern gaming industry is like, and it upsets a lot of people. Whether that means YouTubers pissed off and refusing to cover Nintendo content or websites openly twisting their words and launching hate campaigns against them, the general mindset is hard to deny in the modern western gaming industry.

You asked for proof and when someone gives you proof you ignore it and choose to personally attack them instead. You're not making your side look very favorable, Rahxephon91. And I got to say the way you keep lumping "Nintendo fans" in one group just sort of paints your own bias on the subject pretty clear. I guess nothing anyone says is going to be treated fairly by you.

Fact of the matter is Nintendo doesn't play by the rules of what the modern gaming industry is like, and it upsets a lot of people. Whether that means YouTubers pissed off and refusing to cover Nintendo content or websites openly twisting their words and launching hate campaigns against them, the general mindset is hard to deny in the modern western gaming industry.

Not that Nintendo is totally flawless or anything. The stark differences in their Japanese and American mindset can be pretty contradicting and hypocritical at times that I kind of wish they'd stop trying to keep this family friendly image in America when you can go on Japanese Miiverse and find tons of lewd drawings from artists floating around the communities, but anyone who tries similar here gets quickly deleted. Would be nice to have more creative freedom on this side of the ocean.

"Disney Channel has received heavy criticism by some critics and former viewers for its current programming direction. Critics disapprove of the marketing strategy drafted by Disney–ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney, which results in a slant in the target audience of Disney Channel's programs toward pre-teen and teenage girls. Sweeney had once stated that Disney Channel, resulting from its multi-platform marketing strategy using television and music, would become "the major profit driver for the [Walt Disney] Company."

Most viewers who had grown up watching Disney Channel's family-targeted shows during its run as a premium/hybrid premium-basic service have also complained about a perceived decline in quality in its programming since the early 2000s, a lack of programming content dedicated to Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, and sexist humor against boys. The channel has also been criticized contradictorily for a perceived incorporation of some sexual content (in a manner mildly similar to that found on some original scripted programs on competitor Nickelodeon, that still avoids violating the channel's content guidelines), and for being too strict in regards to program content (with its editing and occasional removal of episodes of select acquired programs that ran between 1997 and 2007 due to subject matter and some profanity considered inappropriate for children as well as sporadic edits of minced oaths that are otherwise acceptable under its guidelines and placement of non-Disney products among viewer complaints regarding this particular issue).

The channel has also pulled episodes (even once having to reshoot an episode) that have featured subject matter either deemed inappropriate due to its humor, the timing of the episode's airing with real-life events or subject matter considered inappropriate for Disney Channel's target audience. In December 2008, the Hannah Montana episode "No Sugar, Sugar" was pulled before its broadcast after complaints from parents who saw the episode through video on demand services due to misconceptions regarding diabetics and sugar intake (the Mitchel Musso character of Oliver Oken is revealed in the episode to have been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes). Portions of that episode were subsequently rewritten and re-filmed to become the season three episode "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)", which aired in September 2009. In December 2011, Disney Channel pulled episodes of two of its original series from the network's broadcast cycle – the season one Shake It Up episode "Party It Up", and the So Random! episode "Colbie Caillat" – after Demi Lovato (star of So Random! parent series Sonny with a Chance, who was treated for bulimia nervosa in 2010) objected on Twitter to jokes featured in both episodes (the Shake It Up episode, in particular) that made light of eating disorders. On May 17, 2013, the channel pulled "Quitting Cold Koala", a second season episode of Jessie, prior to its scheduled premiere broadcast, due to parental concerns over a scene in which a character's gluten-free diet leads to him being ridiculed.