Mario Kart 8 was released in May 2014 and is one of the must-own games for the Wii U. When the Switch was announced, everyone expected a new Mario Kart title to appear at some point in its lifetime, but Nintendo decided that instead of developing Mario Kart 9, it would update Mario Kart 8 and re-release it on the new platform.
As of December 2016, Nintendo had sold 13.56 million Wii U consoles and 8.26 million copies of Mario Kart 8 making it the best selling Wii U title ever released. Clearly many of those millions of players will be upgrading to Switch, so how exactly is Nintendo going to convince them to buy the same game all over again?
Details of the game, entitled Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, have been released today explaining exactly how the game has been updated.
The Wii U version shipped with 32 tracks and added a further 16 tracks when a player purchased two DLC packs. For the Switch version, all DLC content is included as standard, meaning 48 tracks from release. Five new characters are also being added (Inkling Girl, Inkling Boy, King Boo, Dry Bones and Bowser Jr.) taking the total to 42.
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Battle mode receives a major update and supports both local and online multiplayer with access to eight courses. Modes include well known classics: Balloon Battle, Bob-omb Blast, Coin Runners, and Shine Thief. Renegade Roundup is a new mode which tasks one team with capturing and placing the other team in jail.
Online play supports up to 12 players, where as local multiplayer supports four-player split screen with the Switch docked, or two players can use a Joy-Con horizontally to go head-to-head using the Switch's display. So that's 48 tracks, 42 characters, eight battle modes, and enhanced local multiplayer options for $59.99. Is that enough to entice a re-purchase on April 28?
Here's how we feel seven days later.
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