Was inclined to ask after seeing the Booster Course Pass announced for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, as opposed to a Mario Kart 9.
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Should Nintendo have already announced Mario Kart 9 or is continually adding more DLC courses ok?
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has sold 43.35 million copies as of December 31, 2021, so it's a no brainer for Nintendo to offer DLC with such a massive player base. The question really is what took them so long?
It still sells supremely well. These courses are an indication that 9 won't be here anytime soon, and I imagine we won't see it until at least the next nintendo generation begins.
More courses the merrier. Quite happy for one massive Mario Kart I can play a massive variety of tracks on online.
And as someone who had a WII U I will now be adding to those massive MK8 sales.
And as someone who had a WII U I will now be adding to those massive MK8 sales.
"Should" and "OK" are a bit ambiguous. Are you asking people which they'd prefer? Or what makes the most sense for Nintendo as a company trying to make money?
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Interesting, because of how issue may be taken with constantly building on what's essentially a nearly 10 year old Wii U Mario Kart game as opposed to making a brand new one for the next generation.
Why would they announce Mario Kart 9, a game that can carry an entire lifecycle of a console, when the Switch has maybe 2 years left and MK8 still sells gangbusters?
Save it for the launch year of Switch 2, and just continue support for MK8. Absolutely no sense in releasing it now.
Save it for the launch year of Switch 2, and just continue support for MK8. Absolutely no sense in releasing it now.
I want a Mario Kart 9 solely because I'm bored out of my skull by 8's item set after all these years
I think they're adding to MK8D so they can do exactly that.
I think that's why Mario Kart 8 DX is getting DLC this late in the game, because Mario Kart 9 will be an exclusive on whatever is next (most likely a Switch 2).
I'm not sure releasing 9 on switch would have much of an upgrade outside of any gimmick. Expansion pack is the way to go but it would have been nice to have a new set of unlockables to go along with it.
Plus launching the next system with 9 basically guarantees high sales numbers from the get go.
Plus launching the next system with 9 basically guarantees high sales numbers from the get go.
I expect MK9 for the next system at this point.
The install base for 8 is huge and they can keep making money off of it this way, from folks who already own it AND people who don't yet own it but might now see the game as a larger value.
It's got to have great cost-to-dev value compared to making a whole new game as well. It's just smart business.
Meh this way, we're getting the same number of new* courses for a lot less money. MK9 will still come out eventually so it's fine.
*okay remastered or whatever, not fully new.
*okay remastered or whatever, not fully new.
I'm happy for more content being added and it is a fairly large amount, I've actually been asking that they do a mario kart ultimate type deal with every track and character from the past for a good while now and it's getting closer to that so I'm happy for that, but I wish they'd add more battle mode arenas. The only mode I can actually play with my wife, family and friends is battle mode because they don't enjoy the racing modes. We play battle mode weekly as a group and only having those 8 stages, 1 of which sucks so badly we skip it everytime, is really disappointing when they're adding so many more racing tracks.
Me too but I would like some extra stuff not just tracks. Some extra single player modes and a better online system.
For example instead of the constantly going back to track select after each race, it could work like small cups, selecting the next four tracks, playing those and then going back to room.
Or an online mode where you just keep playing random tracks non stop. Generally the online works pretty well but it's barebones imo.
Would have been ok to continue MK8 if the DLC tracks were actually new, but that's not the case here, it's only old tracks
we're like 5 years in. we should have gotten this MK8 DLC like 4 years ago. I do hope they don't announce MK9 for Switch tho. that shit should be Switch 2 exclusive.
I mean it's clear to me the only MK10 (9 is Tour and people will have to accept that when the next MK is called MK10) we would have gotten on Switch would have been called "Mario Kart Tour Evolved" or something. Taking the tour formula and bringing it to a console with a mix of Tour's courses, new courses in the same vein that Tour has done, and the same kinda retro/reto update courses Tour has done. I think people would have hated that far more then MK8D DLC even if at the end of the day the tracks in this dlc are what would have made up like 80% of that new game.
Wii U sold like 10% of Switch.
People who got Mario Kart 8 on Wii U are statistically insignificant.
Adding more courses is ok.
Mario Kart 9 should get a generational bump and keeping that aside while having the single most course heavy Mario Kart on this Switch is great.
Mario Kart 9 should get a generational bump and keeping that aside while having the single most course heavy Mario Kart on this Switch is great.
I'm guessing development on Mario Kart 10 hasn't gone as fast as they would've expected, and they are doing this to tide people over.
No matter how many copies a game sells, announcing DLC for a complete edition port that launched 5 years prior is pretty unusual.
No matter how many copies a game sells, announcing DLC for a complete edition port that launched 5 years prior is pretty unusual.
At this point there just isn't any reason to make a sequel unless they really shake things up. So say they have a cool new mechanic but are shelving it just to sell dlc, then that would be objectionable to me.
Mario Kart 8 isn't my kind of game so I'm saying this from an outsiders perspective, but frankly I see too many games I do like or see potential in get dropped like a hot potato sometimes even days after they are launched and it gets frankly disheartening. It was really neat just how much additional content Crash Team Racing got post launch, so I can't see why anybody would be disappointed with MK8's constant ongoing support and frankly truck load of new (technically) content, everything about this looks really cool. You don't have to keep doing yearly installments, sometimes what you have is a good base for more content, helps cultivate a long time player base.
If only I could say the same about another popular legacy franchise's racing game.
If only I could say the same about another popular legacy franchise's racing game.
'Issue taken' by who? A few internet nerds? The millions of people still buying MK8 every year clearly don't have an issue with it lol.
This is where I am at as well. At a certain point there is t much else to do with a cart racer.
