Even though *Mario Kart World* has been out for less than six months, it has proven to be another big winner for Nintendo. The latest entry in the series has already sold 9.57 million units since it launched alongside the Nintendo Switch 2.
This information comes from Nintendo’s most recent six-month earnings report, issued late Monday evening. According to the report, “For Nintendo Switch 2 software, *Mario Kart World*, released at the same time as the hardware, and *Donkey Kong Bananza*, released in July, showed strong sales.”
The Nintendo Financial Results Explanatory Material, covering the period ending November 4, further states, “Combined with titles released by other software publishers, unit sales for Nintendo Switch 2 software for the first half of the fiscal year were 20.62 million. Please note that this sales result includes the approximately 8.10 million units of Nintendo Switch 2 software that were bundled with the hardware.”
In terms of hardware, Nintendo has sold 10.36 million Nintendo Switch 2 units. Of that number, 9.57 million include the Switch 2-exclusive *Mario Kart World* in some form.
While *Mario Kart World* has made an impressive start, it still has a long way to go to catch up to the over 68 million lifetime units sold of *Mario Kart 8 Deluxe*. Speaking of the previous Mario Kart title, it has sold another 1.37 million units recently, bringing its lifetime sales total to more than 69 million.
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