Nintendo sold 10.6 million copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe last year

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is an unstoppable sales juggernaut. The game has surpassed 35 million copies sold since it debuted in 2017. From April 2020 through March 2021 alone, Nintendo sold 10.62 million copies of the mascot racer. That makes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe one of the best-selling games through that period, even when compared against some of biggest releases of the year.

For comparison, Sony confirmed that Ghost of Tsushima, one of its best-selling games of last year, sold 6.5 million copies through March. That makes Ghost a huge hit — but it doesn’t come close to the sales of an old Nintendo kart-racing game. This means Mario Kart’s 12-month period starting in April 2020 likely also outsold games like Final Fantasy VII Remake.