UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Grabs Silver As Monster Hunter Wilds Makes Its Debut

Would hope with a few others that Monster Hunter Wilds gets a mention on April 02nd.

MK8 is crazy at this stage but probably still one of the number one buys with a new console.

The main takeaway I'm having is actually just how dismal the console share is for Xbox on the games where that's listed. Can definitely see the why of them trending toward being third party when you're seeing them get a fraction of what Sony's getting on most of these, especially the insane split on Mortal Kombat 11.

It's crazy how Mario Kart is still topping the charts after all these years. Says a lot about the state of the industry, I suppose. However, is this physical only? Since many games aren't even available physically, that might skew one's opinion.

The cost for the base MH Wilds game is ridiculous. A$105 on Steam and A$115 on PS/XB. Yeah nah, imma wait for a sale.

BLUEY is on number 30. 😊

I looked up how many copies Mario Kart 8 has sold on Switch and it is estimated at 67 million. Obviously this doesn't include digital copies. So it's safe to say at this point the vast majority of people who own a Switch also have that. Quite a feat for a game that wasn't bundled with the system at launch or anything.

The fact if it wasn't for Monster Hunter 8 Deluxe would probably be #1 is hilarious.

Switch hardware still selling well then! Great to see

@BenAV why not both, Wilds and Rise successor. A more compromised and optimized Series S version could probably run on NS2. I'm holding off on buying the PS5 version for the time being.

@Lizuka I think these charts are for physical-only, and Xbox is supposedly around 90% digital at this point so that would explain the discrepancy - and allowing for the fact the PS5 has sold more than double the amount of consoles compared with the Xbox Series Models. Also, for Mortal Kombat 11 specifically, it's on Game Pass so obviously less people are going to be buying it on Xbox when they can access as part of their subscription.

As expected, but come on. Who is buying MK 8DX? It's basically Nintendo Nintendo's GTA V at this point.

It's amazing how the xbox base doesn't sell games! Games like EA Sports FC 25, which run much worse and don't seem to have as much feet with the base, sell much more on the Switch.

@Zenszulu It's not an estimate, it's an official number reported by Nintendo. It obviously includes digital sales. It's digital sales plus retail shipments.
Here's the official top 10 by Nintendo on Switch:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html

@dmcc0 @Daniel36 Yes, these UK charts are physical only.

@BTB20 Ah the place I got the number from just listed the games it didn't state it was an officially reported number.

@IronMan30 well every year a 'toddler' becomes a 'kid' at which point they would like a console and the switch with mario kart is likely to be their first. Same with GTA 5, a 12 year old kid becomes a 13 year old teenager and mario goes out the window and they want GTA 5 instead.

@BenAV hopefully if it does land on SW2 it will have been fairly optimised by then.

It's amazing that MK8D still sells like sliced bread

I thought it was more common to find someone with 11 fingers than someone who doesn’t have Mario Kart 8.

I've been playing Monster Hunter Wilds and it's a lot of fun. The PC version has some performance issues but it's not unplayable on my PC with RTX3060 (which is pretty low-end and somewhat old GPU).

Anyway, hard to imagine it running particularly well on Switch 2 unless they optimize it a lot.

@IronMan30,

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a beast.

@johnvboy that it is, that it is.

@IronMan30,

It does get to a point where you wonder who is still buying it. But it is what it is. Mario Kart 9 or whatever they end up calling it is going to be a nother monster hit for Nintendo... A system seller all on it's own.

@Poco_Lypso That would be cool I guess, I did beat the main story of Monster Hunter Wilds and I like it more than Monster Hunter World but less than Monster Hunter Rise.

Monster Hunter Rise is still my favorite Monster Hunter game.
So I am sure that even if Wilds isn't coming to Switch 2, there's a chance that Switch 2 will get a brand new Monster Hunter game that is even better if we're lucky.

Why doesn't this include PC sales?

@fenlix because they only track physical sales in the UK

Hey @Olliemar28 this article isn't appearing on your main page for some reason, thought I'd let you know. Had to find it by scrolling back to last week and clicking the UK chart tag from the previous article posted on Friday