Please stop buying it, people, we want Mario Kart 9.
Whenever exasperated racing fans ask why we’re still playing a rather good expanded port of a Wii U game on Switch, the answer is always the sale figures. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch included all previous DLC and added a Battle Mode when it arrived, but otherwise we’ve been playing the same MK game since May 2014. Why? Because people keep buying it.
As Switch hardware sales stay high, plenty of new adopters naturally grab the brilliant racer as well. It’s become the ultimate evergreen title since its Switch release in April 2017 – in the first two quarters of this year alone it’s shifted another 3.34 million units. In those six months (up to 30th September) it was the second-best seller on Switch, only behind newcomer The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD; that’s crazy.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
