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Catherine Lewis

I need to know what the 190,000 people who bought a Switch 2 at launch without Mario Kart World were doing, because I refuse to believe Welcome Tour was a system seller

Spike closely staring at the camera in a Mario Kart World screenshot.

Nintendo has released some updated sales data for the Switch 2 and its big launch title Mario Kart World, unsurprisingly proving that the vast majority of people who picked up the new console also treated themselves to the racing romp. Honestly though, I'm more confused about the large number who didn't.

As per Nintendo's official "dedicated video game sales units" and "top selling title sales units" pages, by the end of June, the Switch 2 had sold 5.82 million units. In the company's latest financial results, it's clarified that, in the console's first seven weeks (which brings us up to last week), it sold over six million units, which is obviously very impressive, but also not the figure we're focused on right now.

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