{"id":126547,"date":"2022-07-14T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-134433"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:30:00","slug":"40-of-europes-mario-strikers-switch-sales-come-from-just-one-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/14\/40-of-europes-mario-strikers-switch-sales-come-from-just-one-country\/","title":{"rendered":"40% Of Europe’s Mario Strikers Switch Sales Come From Just One Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ah, the beautiful game. It’s the world’s most popular sport, so news that Mario Strikers: Battle League<\/a> has already overtaken lifetime sales of Mario Golf: Super Rush<\/a> in Europe less than a month after release may not come as a massive surprise, even if Super Rush has been out for over a year. We’re big golf fans here at Nintendo Life \u2014 any excuse to wear loud trousers \u2014 but of course<\/em> a football game is going to do better! Being based in the UK, we’re legally required to love football more than any other country. Except that’s not true, if physical European sales of Mario’s latest kickaround are anything to go by.<\/p>\n

According to GSD (Games Sales Data) physical sales figures from GameIndustry.Biz’s June report<\/a>, it’s not the UK but France who has demonstrated the lion’s share of the soccer love on the European continent \u2014 at least where Mario is concerned \u2014 with 40% of all physical copies sold so far going into the hands of French football (and Switch) fans.<\/p>\n

GameIndustryBiz’s Chris Dring highlighted GSD’s stat on Twitter:<\/p>\n