The numbers are delicious. We’re big fans of shredding all that tasty statistical cereal and spitting out interesting data nuggets. Remember when we took a look at gamesindustry.biz’s “Year In Numbers” and learned that Nintendo Switch owners were the most likely to own another console? Well, let’s get back to another fun discovery, courtesy of GI.biz editor Christopher Dring.
It turns out there are two things people want to do during the pandemic: drive and dance. Since we can’t do much of real life, we’re all turning to video games. Just Dance 2021 apparently has sold almost as many copies as Watch Dogs Legion, which is an amazing (and perhaps disappointing?) turnout for the London-based piracy game.
Both games are owned by Ubisoft, but they are money in your pocket anyway; money that will be used to make the next Just Dance even more danced.
In the meantime, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – the Nintendo Switch version of Wii U best-selling game: has sold more copies in 2020 than 2019. In fact, every year has gone better since its release in 2017, according to Dring, and that it even became the number one Christmas in Germany.
That probably means a lot of people buy Switchs and bolster their game library with the 10/10 game we call “the ultimate Mario Kart 8 experience,” telling readers it was an “easy choice” for Switch owners.
Wait, does that mean people listen to our advice? Let’s say yes.