Mario Kart World has sold 9.57 million units since launch

The latest Mario Kart has been available for less than six months, but is already nearing the 10 million sales milestone.

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. That's according to Nintendo's most recent six months earnings report issued on late Monday evening.

"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," reads the Nintendo Financial Results Explanatory Material ending on November 4. "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."

According to the financial statements, Nintendo has sold 10.36 million Nintendo Switch 2 hardware units. Of that number, 9.57 million have the Switch 2-exclusive Mario Kart World in some form. Of course, it has a long way to go to catch the over 68 million lifetime units of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but it's off to a good start. Speaking of the previous Mario Kart title, that has sold another 1.37 million units, bringing its lifetime sales number to more than 69 million.

We'll have much more to say about Mario Kart World and Nintendo's latest financial report throughout Tuesday, so keep it on Shacknews for the latest updates. If you own Mario Kart World and are looking to explore the whole island, remember that we have all of the major points of interest marked down over on Shackmaps.