Mario Kart 8 shoots off orange sparks to reach nearly 2 million in sales

The old racing crew in the Mushroom Kingdom can still go pretty fast when they want to.

Nintendo revealed that it has sold 2 million copies of Mario Kart 8 since debuting the racer in late May. With just a month on the market, the game is already one of the Wii U’s best-selling releases. It is a bright spot for a system that has struggled at retail.