How Nintendo's long sellers compare with Pokémon

What this is

How Nintendo's long sellers compare with Pokémon: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 2.88 million copies in the year to March 2026, taking it to 71.08 million.

How it’s built

1. Read from Nintendo's million-seller table for the year to March 2026, alongside the other older titles still in it.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The same table holds only one older Pokémon title, Scarlet and Violet, at 1.48 million.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

• FiledSell in units fiscal year, year to March 2025
• FiledCommentary text, year to March 2024
• ReportedShare of nintendo switch software units, year to March 20251.2%
• ReportedShare of nintendo switch 2 software units, year to March 2026 (Switch 2 launch year)13%
• FiledMario Kart 8 Deluxe units, year to March 20262.88m

Where it’s used

• StoryVideo games