82% of Nintendo Switch 2 Owners in the U.S. Also Bought Mario Kart World

If you bought a Nintendo Switch 2 successful June, the likelihood are bully you besides bought Mario Kart World. In fact, according to Circana, 82% of Nintendo Switch 2 purchasers besides picked up Mario Kart World.

That comes from Circana's June report, which shared that the Nintendo Switch 2 is officially the fastest-selling video crippled console successful the U.S. In total, the Nintendo Switch sold 1.6 cardinal units successful the U.S. successful June, beating retired the PlayStation 4's erstwhile grounds of 1.1 cardinal units successful November of 2012.

Of those 1.6 cardinal portion sales, 82% either purchased the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle, oregon bought the crippled standalone. This helped propel Mario Kart World to go the 3rd best-selling crippled of the period successful Circana's rankings, though it's imaginable it could person ranked adjacent higher owed to the exclusion of Nintendo's integer information from the income charts.

As a examination point, erstwhile the Nintendo Switch 1 launched, implicit 100% of caller console owners that period besides purchased its motorboat game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, worldwide. Yes, the crippled sold much copies connected Switch than Nintendo did Switch systems. "This whitethorn beryllium attributed to radical who purchased some a constricted variation of the crippled to cod and a 2nd mentation to play," Nintendo suggested astatine the time. So Mario Kart World isn't rather beating those numbers.

But it whitethorn besides beryllium doing adjacent amended successful different countries. According to a study from Wccftech, the game's Switch 2 connect complaint successful France was implicit 95%.

Additionally, we learned from Circana this greeting that 32% of Nintendo Switch 2 purchasers successful June besides bought a Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller, helping marque it the best-selling accessory of the period successful the U.S. by dollar sales.

Unshockingly, 1 of the reasons radical are buying Mario Kart World is due to the fact that it's beauteous dang good. We gave the crippled an 8/10, saying that it "may not marque the astir convincing lawsuit that going open-world was the boost the bid needed, but fantabulous multiplayer racing, unthinkable polish, and the thrilling caller Knockout Tour mode inactive much than unrecorded up to its legacy."

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