Mikael Von Stroot for Fully 'Avin It writes: As that very famous saying goes, Nintendo be Nintendo’ing; Instead of coming up with anything original or remotely fresh Nintendo has recently announced that it is releasing two DLC packs for the ridiculously popular Mario Kart.
Honestly I don’t know why this came as a surprise to anybody. It’s the equivalent of a headline like “Pope Revealed as a Christian”.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
Wow, this is a poor quality article. What is the overarching point? Where is the point of discussion? It's a couple of sentences incoherently put together.
If when Microsoft announced xbox, they's announced this launch lineup:
Halo, Halo Karting, Halo 2 HD remaster, and Gears of War Puzzle edition
If that had genuinely been their announcement people would have mocked them for years and we'd have been screaming at them for a decent new game. Yet somehow Nintendo do exactly this and they're somehow cool??!
They should just make the next one called Nintendo Kart and add everyone.
This is easily one of the best $12 DLC I've ever seen for a console game, yet somehow it's a bad thing. Sure there are games like FTL that introduced tons of content for free, but 16 courses, 6 characters, 8 vehicles, then several color swaps for $12 is an awesome deal.
Tbh I didn't even think they would make DLC for MK8, but here it is. Haters gonna hate