{"id":79348,"date":"2019-01-31T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/nearly_half_of_all_switch_owners_have_a_copy_of_mario_kart_8_deluxe"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:15:00","slug":"nearly-half-of-all-switch-owners-have-a-copy-of-mario-kart-8-deluxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/nearly-half-of-all-switch-owners-have-a-copy-of-mario-kart-8-deluxe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half Of All Switch Owners Have A Copy Of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2b665b0544a0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2b665b0544a0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mk8d\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2b665b0544a0\/mk8d.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2b665b0544a0\/mk8d.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mk8d\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Despite only being on the market for just under two years, the Nintendo Switch has already produced some must-have titles. Even top games originally brought to life on Wii U have been given a glorious second chance on Switch and, for the most part, they&#8217;ve taken that chance with open arms and impressive sales. But just how popular are the Switch&#8217;s biggest games?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, we shared an updated list of the console&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/smash_ultimate_exceeds_12_million_worldwide_sales_top_ten_best-selling_switch_games_revealed\">top ten best-selling games<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> comfortably leads the way with an impressive 15.02 million sales, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/nintendo_cuts_its_20_million_switch_hardware_sales_target_despite_incredible_holiday_season_performance\">latest financial information<\/a> provided by Nintendo has revealed that the console has now shifted a grand total of 32.27 units. With all of this data, it&#8217;s now possible to track attach rates for these top games, and that&#8217;s exactly what Niko Partners analyst, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\">Daniel Ahmad<\/a>, has done below.<\/p>\n<p>In this graphic, we can see the Switch&#8217;s six best-selling titles alongside percentages which show how many copies have been purchased in relation to the total number of Switch hardware sales. This should give us a rough look at each game&#8217;s attach rate (apart from any occurrences where collectors may own more than one copy, for example).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nintendo Switch is seeing record software attach rates with its first party titles. <\/p>\n<p>47% of Nintendo Switch owners have a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. <br \/>43% for Super Mario Odyssey.<br \/>37% for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uBmTHq1WXx\">pic.twitter.com\/uBmTHq1WXx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\/status\/1090878571432865792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The figures are pretty impressive all round, but Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is surprisingly close to reaching 50% of &#8211; or one-in-two &#8211; Switch owners. Many are quick to share their negative thoughts towards Nintendo&#8217;s porting endeavours at the moment, but it&#8217;s clear to see why so many Wii U games are coming to Switch &#8211; and it&#8217;s clear that an awful lot of players want them, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you surprised by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe&#8217;s popularity? Do you own many of the games listed above? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite only being on the market for just under two years, the Nintendo Switch has already produced some must-have titles. Even top games originally brought to life on Wii U have been given a glorious second chance on Switch and, for the most part, they&#8217;ve taken that chance with open arms and impressive sales. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}