Numbers are delicious. We’re big fans of cracking all those tasty statistical cereals and spitting out interesting facts. Remember when we checked out gamesindustry.biz’s “Year In Numbers” and found that Nintendo Switch owners most likely had a different console? Well, we’re back with another fun discovery, courtesy of GI.biz’s editor, Christopher Dring.
Turns out there are two things people want to do during the pandemic: drive and dance. Since we can’t do much of that in real life, we all turn to video games. Just Dance 2021 has apparently sold nearly as many copies as View Dogs Legion, which is a surprising (and perhaps disappointing?) turnout for the London-based hacking game.
However, both games are owned by Ubisoft, so either way, it’s money in their wallets – money that will be used to make the next Just Dance even more beautiful.
Meanwhile, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – the Nintendo Switch version of the best-selling Wii U game – sold more copies in 2020 than in 2019. In fact, it’s getting better every year since its release in 2017, according to Dring, and it even made it to number one spot on Christmas in Germany.
Which probably means many people are buying Switches and expanding their game library with the 10/10 game we called the “definitive Mario Kart 8 experience”, telling readers that it was an “easy choice” for Switch owners.
Wait a minute, does that mean people are listening to our advice? We’re going to say yes.