Mario Kart 8 has already sold 1.2 million copies

Mario Kart 8 was released for the Wii U on Friday and has become the fastest selling game on the console.

It’s also brought some good news to Nintendo’s door – it resulted in a 666 per cent increase in the number of Wii Us sold compared to last week.

However, it only made number two in the multi-platform charts. It was held off the top spot by Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs.

“Such positive early feedback for Mario Kart 8 reinforces the great gameplay experiences that Wii U currently offers,” said Nintendo of Europe president Satoru Shibata.

"With Nintendo set to showcase its future releases at E3 next week, this is a great milestone going into the summer season The milestone means that the Mario Kart series has sold more than 100 million copies to date.

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