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sales leader, ranking as the second-best selling game on Nintendo’s last three hardware platforms, but even if every current Wii U owner bought the next installment, Mario Kart 8, it would still be the second-worst selling game in franchise history.\nThat’s because there are only 6.17 million Wii U consoles in gamers’ homes, and that’s fewer than the number of copies that all but one previous Mario Kart game sold. The only way Mario Kart 8 could sell more would be by driving gamers to buy new consoles. And that’s certainly one of the things Nintendo hopes will happen.\nIn a recent financial report, Nintendo cited Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. as the Wii U’s “two main drivers” for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015. The company expects to sell another 3.6 million Wii U consoles by the end of the fiscal year, according to Nintendo’s consolidated financial statement, bringing the number of Wii U consoles on the market to 9.77 million. But even that wouldn’t make Mario Kart 8 the smash hit Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii became.\nPart of the reason this game’s potential sales look so comparatively low is because the franchise as a whole is a massive hit.\nSince Super Mario Kart was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, Nintendo has sold 489.83 million hardware units across seven platforms, including three handhelds (Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS) and four consoles (Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii and Wii U). In that same period, the company sold 99.76 million Mario Kart games. The Mario Kart hardware attach rate, which shows what percentage of people who own a piece of Nintendo hardware also purchased a Mario Kart game, averages 20.37 percent over those 22 years.\nA note about the numbers we used for this analysis. On its investor website, Nintendo provides sales figures for consoles dating back to the NES as well as top software sales figures for the Wii U, Wii, 3DS and DS. It does not provide software sales information for games before that. We reached out to Nintendo for that information but did not receive it before publication. In lieu of Nintendo’s official sales figures, we sourced multiple outlets to find the most accurate figures available. We obtained Super Mario Kart (released in 1992 for Super Nintendo) sales figures of 8.76 million from VGChartz, with additional information released in a 2009 report from the Guinness Book of World Records and an IGN report. For Mario Kart 64 (1996), we obtained sales information from VGChartz (9.87M) with additional information from The Magic Box and an additional report from The Magic Box. For Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001), VGChartz (5.47M) and The Magic Box. For Mario Kart: Double Dash! (2003), VGChartz (6.95M), the 2009 Guinness report and two separate reports from The Magic Box.\nIn its first two decades, Mario Kart attach sales ranged from a low of 5.47 million with Mario Kart: Super Circuit to a high of 35.53 million with Mario Kart Wii. Sales were relatively consistent until they more than tripled with the release of Mario Kart DS in 2005 and Mario Kart Wii in 2008 when the attach rate rose to 35.16 percent on the Wii. The attach rate returned to more typical series standards and currently rests at 22.20 percent for Mario Kart 7, which was released in 2011 for Nintendo 3DS.\nIn October 2013, Nintendo characterized its latest console as having “a negative impact” on profits, particularly because of its “markdown” in Europe and the U.S. In the six-month period preceding the financial report, Nintendo sold 460,000 Wii U units worldwide. Earlier this month, Nintendo announced a $456 million annual operating loss and also reported that “unit sales of software, which has high profit margins, did not grow sufficiently.”\nMario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise’s changing cast of characters, cups and courses.\nFor more on the latest entry, be sure to read Polygon’s Mario Kart 8 review and watch it below."},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Analysis","item":"https://www.polygon.com/analysis"}]}]</script><link rel="preload" as="image" imageSrcSet="https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C26.372549019608%2C100%2C47.254901960784&w=376 376w, https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C26.372549019608%2C100%2C47.254901960784&w=384 384w, 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src="https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C26.372549019608%2C100%2C47.254901960784&w=2400"/></div></div><div class="duet--media--caption ogfo6w0"></div></div></div></div><div class="_17dvdj05"><div class="q2y5kk0"></div></div></div><div id="zephr-anchor" class="_11x6rb9y"><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">The Mario Kart series has long been a sales leader, ranking as the second-best selling game on Nintendo’s last three hardware platforms, but even if every current Wii U owner bought the next installment, <em>Mario Kart 8</em>, it would still be the second-worst selling game in franchise history.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">That’s because there are only 6.17 million Wii U consoles in gamers’ homes, and that’s fewer than the number of copies that all but one previous Mario Kart game sold. The only way <em>Mario Kart 8 </em>could sell more would be by driving gamers to buy new consoles. And that’s certainly one of the things Nintendo hopes will happen.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">In a <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/7/5690124/nintendo-posts-456-million-annual-operating-loss">recent financial report</a>, Nintendo cited <em>Mario Kart 8 </em>and <em>Super Smash Bros. </em>as the Wii U’s “two main drivers” for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015. The company expects to sell another 3.6 million Wii U consoles by the end of the fiscal year, according to Nintendo’s consolidated financial statement, bringing the number of Wii U consoles on the market to 9.77 million. But even that wouldn’t make <em>Mario Kart 8</em> the smash hit <em>Mario Kart DS</em> and <em>Mario Kart Wii</em> became.</p></div><div class="duet--article--block-placement bj4i1k1 bj4i1k0 duet--article--article-body-component"><div class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup"><p><span>Polygon examined the last 22 years of Mario Kart games sales. Based on our research, an average of 20.37 percent of those who purchase Nintendo hardware also purchase Mario Kart games. If Mario Kart's trend continues and Nintendo sells </span><em style="line-height: 1.5;">Mario Kart 8 </em><span>to 20.37 percent of its existing 6.17 million user base, sales of the game would reach 1.26 million. If Nintendo's console predictions are correct, and assuming the average of 20.37 percent remains, </span><em style="line-height: 1.5;">Mario Kart 8</em><em style="line-height: 1.5;"> </em><span>sales would reach 1.99 million units by the end of March 2015. Meaning this latest Mario Kart would sell a bit more than a third of the copies that the worst-selling Mario Kart, 2001's <em>Mario Kart: Super Circuit </em>for the Game Boy Advance, sold in its lifetime.</span></p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">Part of the reason this game’s potential sales look so comparatively low is because the franchise as a whole is a massive hit.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">Since <em>Super Mario Kart </em>was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, Nintendo has sold 489.83 million hardware units across seven platforms, including three handhelds (Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS) and four consoles (Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii and Wii U). In that same period, the company sold 99.76 million Mario Kart games. The Mario Kart hardware attach rate, which shows what percentage of people who own a piece of Nintendo hardware also purchased a Mario Kart game, averages 20.37 percent over those 22 years.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">A note about the numbers we used for this analysis. On its <a href="http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/index.html">investor website</a>, Nintendo provides sales figures for consoles dating back to the NES as well as top software sales figures for the Wii U, Wii, 3DS and DS. It does not provide software sales information for games before that. We reached out to Nintendo for that information but did not receive it before publication. In lieu of Nintendo’s official sales figures, we sourced multiple outlets to find the most accurate figures available. We obtained <em>Super Mario Kart</em> (released in 1992 for Super Nintendo) sales figures of 8.76 million from VGChartz, with additional information released in <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/26/guinness-pours-out-its-top-50-games-of-all-time/">a 2009 report</a> from the Guinness Book of World Records and <a href="http://www.polygon.com/admin/entries/8M:%20http://top100.ign.com/2007/ign_top_game_23.html">an IGN report</a>. For <em>Mario Kart 64</em> (1996), we obtained sales information from <a href="http://www.vgchartz.com/game/1253/mario-kart-64/">VGChartz</a> (9.87M) with additional information from <a href="http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-JPPlatinum.shtml">The Magic Box</a> and an additional report from <a href="http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml">The Magic Box</a>. For <em>Mario Kart: Super Circuit</em> (2001), <a href="http://www.vgchartz.com/game/3715/mario-kart-super-circuit/">VGChartz</a> (5.47M) and <a href="http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml">The Magic Box</a>. For <em>Mario Kart: Double Dash! </em>(2003), <a href="http://www.vgchartz.com/game/1255/mario-kart-double-dash/">VGChartz</a> (6.95M), the 2009 <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/26/guinness-pours-out-its-top-50-games-of-all-time/">Guinness report</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070106203333/www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml">two</a> separate <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050225220704/www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~hokora/gcrank.html">reports</a> from The Magic Box.</p></div><div class="duet--article--block-placement bj4i1k1 bj4i1k0 duet--article--article-body-component"><div class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup"><p><img src="https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/assets/4457705/mario_kart_overlapping_line_chart.jpg" class="photo" alt="Mario_kart_overlapping_line_chart"></p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">In its first two decades, Mario Kart attach sales ranged from a low of 5.47 million with <em>Mario Kart: Super Circuit</em> to a high of 35.53 million with <em>Mario Kart Wii</em>. Sales were relatively consistent until they more than tripled with the release of <em>Mario Kart DS</em> in 2005 and <em>Mario Kart Wii </em>in 2008 when the attach rate rose to 35.16 percent on the Wii. The attach rate returned to more typical series standards and currently rests at 22.20 percent for <em>Mario Kart 7</em>, which was released in 2011 for Nintendo 3DS.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">In October 2013, Nintendo characterized its latest console as having “<a href="http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/30/5045756/wii-u-sales-still-have-a-negative-impact-on-nintendos-profits">a negative impact</a>” on profits, particularly because of its “markdown” in Europe and the U.S. In the six-month period preceding the financial report, Nintendo sold 460,000 Wii U units worldwide. Earlier this month, Nintendo announced a <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/7/5690124/nintendo-posts-456-million-annual-operating-loss">$456 million annual operating loss</a> and also reported that “unit sales of software, which has high profit margins, did not grow sufficiently.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">Mario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise’s changing cast of characters, cups and courses.</p></div><div class="duet--article--block-placement bj4i1k1 bj4i1k0 duet--article--article-body-component"><div class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup"><p><img src="https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/assets/4457851/Grouped_bar_chart.jpg" class="photo" alt="Grouped_bar_chart"></p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9h ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya0">For more on the latest entry, be sure to read <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/15/5673346/mario-kart-8-wii-u-review">Polygon’s <em>Mario Kart 8 </em>review</a> and watch it below.</p></div><div class="duet--article--block-placement bj4i1k1 bj4i1k0 duet--article--article-body-component"><div class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup"><p><!-- CHORUS_VIDEO_EMBED ChorusVideo:45695 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Rigney</span></span></span><span class="g6d1ps1 _11x6rb9q"><a class="duet--article--comments-link g6d1ps6" href="/analysis/482369/push-to-talk-apex-legends-caravan-sandwitch-age-of-empires#comments"><svg class="g6d1ps7" width="12" height="12" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 12 12" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><title>Comments</title><desc>Comment Icon Bubble</desc><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M2.8999 2.10001C2.76729 2.10001 2.64012 2.15268 2.54635 2.24645C2.45258 2.34022 2.3999 2.4674 2.3999 2.60001V9.3929L3.6928 8.10001H9.8999C10.0325 8.10001 10.1597 8.04733 10.2535 7.95356C10.3472 7.85979 10.3999 7.73261 10.3999 7.60001V2.60001C10.3999 2.4674 10.3472 2.34022 10.2535 2.24645C10.1597 2.15268 10.0325 2.10001 9.8999 2.10001H2.8999ZM1.83924 1.53935C2.12055 1.25804 2.50208 1.10001 2.8999 1.10001H9.8999C10.2977 1.10001 10.6793 1.25804 10.9606 1.53935C11.2419 1.82065 11.3999 2.20218 11.3999 2.60001V7.60001C11.3999 7.99783 11.2419 8.37936 10.9606 8.66067C10.6793 8.94197 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The only way \u003cem\u003eMario Kart 8 \u003c/em\u003ecould sell more would be by driving gamers to buy new consoles. And that’s certainly one of the things Nintendo hopes will happen."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/7/5690124/nintendo-posts-456-million-annual-operating-loss\"\u003erecent financial report\u003c/a\u003e, Nintendo cited \u003cem\u003eMario Kart 8 \u003c/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSuper Smash Bros. \u003c/em\u003eas the Wii U’s “two main drivers” for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015. The company expects to sell another 3.6 million Wii U consoles by the end of the fiscal year, according to Nintendo’s consolidated financial statement, bringing the number of Wii U consoles on the market to 9.77 million. But even that wouldn’t make \u003cem\u003eMario Kart 8\u003c/em\u003e the smash hit \u003cem\u003eMario Kart DS\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMario Kart Wii\u003c/em\u003e became."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreHTMLBlockType","__typename":"CoreHTMLBlockType","markup":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolygon examined the last 22 years of Mario Kart games sales. Based on our research, an average of 20.37 percent of those who purchase Nintendo hardware also purchase Mario Kart games. If Mario Kart's trend continues and Nintendo sells \u003c/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eMario Kart 8 \u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto 20.37 percent of its existing 6.17 million user base, sales of the game would reach 1.26 million. If Nintendo's console predictions are correct, and assuming the average of 20.37 percent remains, \u003c/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eMario Kart 8\u003c/em\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e \u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003esales would reach 1.99 million units by the end of March 2015. Meaning this latest Mario Kart would sell a bit more than a third of the copies that the worst-selling Mario Kart, 2001's \u003cem\u003eMario Kart: Super Circuit \u003c/em\u003efor the Game Boy Advance, sold in its lifetime.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","placement":"default"},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"Part of the reason this game’s potential sales look so comparatively low is because the franchise as a whole is a massive hit."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"Since \u003cem\u003eSuper Mario Kart \u003c/em\u003ewas released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, Nintendo has sold 489.83 million hardware units across seven platforms, including three handhelds (Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS) and four consoles (Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii and Wii U). In that same period, the company sold 99.76 million Mario Kart games. The Mario Kart hardware attach rate, which shows what percentage of people who own a piece of Nintendo hardware also purchased a Mario Kart game, averages 20.37 percent over those 22 years."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"A note about the numbers we used for this analysis. On its \u003ca href=\"http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/index.html\"\u003einvestor website\u003c/a\u003e, Nintendo provides sales figures for consoles dating back to the NES as well as top software sales figures for the Wii U, Wii, 3DS and DS. It does not provide software sales information for games before that. We reached out to Nintendo for that information but did not receive it before publication. In lieu of Nintendo’s official sales figures, we sourced multiple outlets to find the most accurate figures available. We obtained \u003cem\u003eSuper Mario Kart\u003c/em\u003e (released in 1992 for Super Nintendo) sales figures of 8.76 million from VGChartz, with additional information released in \u003ca href=\"http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/26/guinness-pours-out-its-top-50-games-of-all-time/\"\u003ea 2009 report\u003c/a\u003e from the Guinness Book of World Records and \u003ca href=\"http://www.polygon.com/admin/entries/8M:%20http://top100.ign.com/2007/ign_top_game_23.html\"\u003ean IGN report\u003c/a\u003e. For \u003cem\u003eMario Kart 64\u003c/em\u003e (1996), we obtained sales information from \u003ca href=\"http://www.vgchartz.com/game/1253/mario-kart-64/\"\u003eVGChartz\u003c/a\u003e (9.87M) with additional information from \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-JPPlatinum.shtml\"\u003eThe Magic Box\u003c/a\u003e and an additional report from \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml\"\u003eThe Magic Box\u003c/a\u003e. For \u003cem\u003eMario Kart: Super Circuit\u003c/em\u003e (2001), \u003ca href=\"http://www.vgchartz.com/game/3715/mario-kart-super-circuit/\"\u003eVGChartz\u003c/a\u003e (5.47M) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml\"\u003eThe Magic Box\u003c/a\u003e. For \u003cem\u003eMario Kart: Double Dash! \u003c/em\u003e(2003), \u003ca href=\"http://www.vgchartz.com/game/1255/mario-kart-double-dash/\"\u003eVGChartz\u003c/a\u003e (6.95M), the 2009 \u003ca href=\"http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/26/guinness-pours-out-its-top-50-games-of-all-time/\"\u003eGuinness report\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20070106203333/www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml\"\u003etwo\u003c/a\u003e separate \u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20050225220704/www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~hokora/gcrank.html\"\u003ereports\u003c/a\u003e from The Magic Box."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreHTMLBlockType","__typename":"CoreHTMLBlockType","markup":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/assets/4457705/mario_kart_overlapping_line_chart.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"Mario_kart_overlapping_line_chart\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","placement":"default"},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"In its first two decades, Mario Kart attach sales ranged from a low of 5.47 million with \u003cem\u003eMario Kart: Super Circuit\u003c/em\u003e to a high of 35.53 million with \u003cem\u003eMario Kart Wii\u003c/em\u003e. Sales were relatively consistent until they more than tripled with the release of \u003cem\u003eMario Kart DS\u003c/em\u003e in 2005 and \u003cem\u003eMario Kart Wii \u003c/em\u003ein 2008 when the attach rate rose to 35.16 percent on the Wii. The attach rate returned to more typical series standards and currently rests at 22.20 percent for \u003cem\u003eMario Kart 7\u003c/em\u003e, which was released in 2011 for Nintendo 3DS."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"In October 2013, Nintendo characterized its latest console as having “\u003ca href=\"http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/30/5045756/wii-u-sales-still-have-a-negative-impact-on-nintendos-profits\"\u003ea negative impact\u003c/a\u003e” on profits, particularly because of its “markdown” in Europe and the U.S. In the six-month period preceding the financial report, Nintendo sold 460,000 Wii U units worldwide. Earlier this month, Nintendo announced a \u003ca href=\"http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/7/5690124/nintendo-posts-456-million-annual-operating-loss\"\u003e$456 million annual operating loss\u003c/a\u003e and also reported that “unit sales of software, which has high profit margins, did not grow sufficiently.”"},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"Mario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise’s changing cast of characters, cups and courses."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreHTMLBlockType","__typename":"CoreHTMLBlockType","markup":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/assets/4457851/Grouped_bar_chart.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"Grouped_bar_chart\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","placement":"default"},{"__isBlockType":"CoreParagraphBlockType","__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockType","contents":{"html":"For more on the latest entry, be sure to read \u003ca href=\"http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/15/5673346/mario-kart-8-wii-u-review\"\u003ePolygon’s \u003cem\u003eMario Kart 8 \u003c/em\u003ereview\u003c/a\u003e and watch it below."},"dropcap":false,"endmark":false,"lead":false},{"__isBlockType":"CoreHTMLBlockType","__typename":"CoreHTMLBlockType","markup":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- CHORUS_VIDEO_EMBED ChorusVideo:45695 --\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","placement":"default"},{"__isBlockType":"CoreHTMLBlockType","__typename":"CoreHTMLBlockType","markup":"\u003cnoscript\u003eundefined\u003c/noscript\u003e","placement":"default"}],"__isResolvedResourceInterface":"PostResourceType","wpId":334551,"featuredImage":{"image":{"originalUrl":"https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90\u0026strip=all","wpId":334536,"id":"cGcyOmltYWdlOjMzNDUzNg==","title":"","alt":"","originalHeight":2040,"originalWidth":1446,"thumbnails":{"social":{"url":"https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90\u0026strip=all\u0026crop=0,31.444410224823,100,37.111179550354","mimeType":"imageJpg","normalizedRatio":1.91,"cropCoordinates":{"height":37.11117955035418,"width":100}}}}},"__isContentResourceInterface":"PostResourceType","dek":{"plaintext":"","html":""},"robots":{"index":true,"follow":true},"canonicalUrlOverride":"","originalPublishedAt":"2014-05-15T13:41:25+00:00","publishedAt":"2014-05-15T13:41:25+00:00","__isFeedContentResourceInterface":"PostResourceType","seo":{"headline":"Mario Kart 8 will likely be the worst-selling game in franchise history, here's why","description":""},"social":{"headline":"Mario Kart 8 will likely be the worst-selling game in franchise history, here's why","description":"","image":null},"promo":{"headline":"Mario Kart 8 will likely be the worst-selling game in franchise history, here's why"},"ledeMedia":{"__typename":"LedeMediaImageType","image":{"title":"","alt":"","originalHeight":2040,"originalWidth":1446,"thumbnails":{"social":{"url":"https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90\u0026strip=all\u0026crop=0,31.444410224823,100,37.111179550354","mimeType":"imageJpg","normalizedRatio":1.91,"cropCoordinates":{"height":37.11117955035418,"width":100}},"horizontal":{"url":"https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90\u0026strip=all\u0026crop=0,26.372549019608,100,47.254901960784","cropCoordinates":{"height":47.254901960784316,"width":100}},"square":{"url":"https://platform.polygon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/14717659/object-2.0.1487705871.jpeg?quality=90\u0026strip=all\u0026crop=0,14.558823529412,100,70.882352941176","cropCoordinates":{"height":70.88235294117648,"width":100}}},"id":"cGcyOmltYWdlOjMzNDUzNg=="}},"updatedAt":"2019-02-27T14:36:12+00:00","createdAt":"2014-05-15T13:41:25+00:00","hasAffiliateLinks":false,"additionalBylines":"","status":"publish","wordCount":835,"package":null,"streams":{"nodes":[]},"liveStatus":{"startAt":null,"status":false,"endAt":null},"seoArticleBody":"The Mario Kart series has long been a sales leader, ranking as the second-best selling game on Nintendo’s last three hardware platforms, but even if every current Wii U owner bought the next installment, Mario Kart 8, it would still be the second-worst selling game in franchise history.\nThat’s because there are only 6.17 million Wii U consoles in gamers’ homes, and that’s fewer than the number of copies that all but one previous Mario Kart game sold. The only way Mario Kart 8 could sell more would be by driving gamers to buy new consoles. And that’s certainly one of the things Nintendo hopes will happen.\nIn a recent financial report, Nintendo cited Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. as the Wii U’s “two main drivers” for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015. The company expects to sell another 3.6 million Wii U consoles by the end of the fiscal year, according to Nintendo’s consolidated financial statement, bringing the number of Wii U consoles on the market to 9.77 million. But even that wouldn’t make Mario Kart 8 the smash hit Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii became.\nPart of the reason this game’s potential sales look so comparatively low is because the franchise as a whole is a massive hit.\nSince Super Mario Kart was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, Nintendo has sold 489.83 million hardware units across seven platforms, including three handhelds (Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS) and four consoles (Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii and Wii U). In that same period, the company sold 99.76 million Mario Kart games. The Mario Kart hardware attach rate, which shows what percentage of people who own a piece of Nintendo hardware also purchased a Mario Kart game, averages 20.37 percent over those 22 years.\nA note about the numbers we used for this analysis. On its investor website, Nintendo provides sales figures for consoles dating back to the NES as well as top software sales figures for the Wii U, Wii, 3DS and DS. It does not provide software sales information for games before that. We reached out to Nintendo for that information but did not receive it before publication. In lieu of Nintendo’s official sales figures, we sourced multiple outlets to find the most accurate figures available. We obtained Super Mario Kart (released in 1992 for Super Nintendo) sales figures of 8.76 million from VGChartz, with additional information released in a 2009 report from the Guinness Book of World Records and an IGN report. For Mario Kart 64 (1996), we obtained sales information from VGChartz (9.87M) with additional information from The Magic Box and an additional report from The Magic Box. For Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001), VGChartz (5.47M) and The Magic Box. For Mario Kart: Double Dash! 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