Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Was The Top Selling Nintendo Game In The UK For 2018

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Was The Top Selling Nintendo Game In The UK For 2018

GameIndustry.biz has released UK sales numbers for video games in 2018 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has come out as the top game from Nintendo.

The game sold more copies last year than it did in 2017, with 458,675 physical units sold, beating 2017’s 341,531.

GameIndustry attributes this to the increased Switch hardware sales this year which made Mario Kart, a Nintendo exclusive, more available to players.

Overall, Mario Kart came in 5th right behind Spider-Man.

See the full analysis of the top-selling games here.

Ranking Title Sales
1 FIFA 19 1,889,401
2 Red Dead Redemption 2 1,757,212
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 1,172,855
4 Spider-Man 676,621
5 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe 458,675
6 Far Cry 5 434,133
7 Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy 430,551
8 God of War 399,395
9 Forza Horizon 4 392,960
10 FIFA 18 351,788
11 Grand Theft Auto V 339,805
12 Spyro Reignited Trilogy 333,725
13 Battlefield V 313,100
14 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 305,937
15 Super Smash Bros Ultimate 284,155
16 Super Mario Odyssey 240,710
17 Call of Duty: WWII 230,576
18 Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu 227,767
19 Shadow of the Tomb Raider 226,125
20 Fallout 76 218,534