As it does every three months when it releases a quarterly sales report, Nintendo has provided new sales numbers for the best-selling Switch games of all time. They’re all Nintendo games, and there are pretty much no surprises on the list, which is led by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Nintendo said the April release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie “positively impacted” sales of Mario games, including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The game sold an impressive 3.22 million units during the six-month period between April and September, boosting its lifetime haul to 57.01 million copies. This includes copies sold in hardware bundles, but it’s an impressive number all the same. For comparison, Red Dead Redemption II and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have sold 50 million copies each.
For the past three months alone, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe saw the biggest quarterly growth in unit sales, rising by 1.55 million from 54.46 million units sold through the end of June 2023. No other game cracked 1 million copies sold in the latest quarter, but The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom got close with 0.99 million copies sold since June 2023, increasing its lifetime tally to 19.5 million.