>>1143397 Maybe he chose to be demoted. Fucking with the race seems more up his alley than racing.

>>1142905 Pretty accurate, sushi is everyone's first experience in Japanese culture. Even the Japanese, straight onto the raw fish. >>1143155 There's more cross over credits wise between the booster course and Animal Crossing New Horizons, I don't think it takes their whole team to make the booster course, although DLC for this game is a much taller order. Nintendo's new offices just make things interesting, I wonder if it will actually change things, they are effectively doubling their internal staff, the primary goal of the new office is to reduce the amount of outsourcing they do, I hope that includes outsourcing to other Nintendo teams.

>>1143511 >I don't think it takes their whole team to make the booster course, although DLC for this game is a much taller order Yea, with the booster courses those were basically just ported from tour, so work was likely minimal and didn't require a whole team. As for here all assets would have to be fresh

>>1143573 Even with fresh assets you wouldn't need a whole engine dev team, and assets can be farmed out to staff between projects, I don't think a doubling of the games content would require the whole team 8 years. anyway now I'm just arguing pointlessly,I'm just not sure if they will or won't get a second game out, the original Switch saw multiple teams release only 1 title throughout the whole gen, Switch 2 will have 1 3d Zelda and possibly even 1 2d Zelda, things aren't looking too hot for it for the gen.

>>1114029 they better make a FE track and add a FE character then. i'd love to see Chrom in a Mario Kart setting.

>>1143155 >Again, doubt ARMS 2 is important enough for that My Min Min lost to time...

Better be free.

>>1114278 >Mario Kart has always been a blight on the industry The entire world doesn't revolve around you and your autism. Mario kart is a party game, if you want to play a competitive game don't play a baby game just because it's easier to learn than a real competitive game, or if you do then stop whining about the fact that you chose a party game to be competitive in.

>Mushroom Cup (and 3 road trips in between tracks) Mario Bros. Circuit Crown City Whistletop Summit DK Spaceport >Flower Cup (plus 3 road trips) Desert Hills Shy Guy Bazaar Wario Stadium Airship Fortress >Star Cup (plus 3 road trips) DK Pass Starview Peak Sky-High Sundae Wario Shipyard >Shell Cup (plus 3 road trips) Koopa Troop Beach Faraway Oasis Crown City (yes, it appears a 2nd time) Peach Stadium >Banana Cup (plus 3 road trips) Salty Salty Speedway Boo Cinema Toad's Factory Peach Beach <These aren't the actual Banana Cup tracks, but they were all mentioned in the Nintendo Direct. Since I don't know which cup they belong to, I'll just group them together here for now. >Leaf Cup (plus 3 road trips) Track #1 Track #2 Track #3 Track #4 >Lightning Cup (plus 3 road trips) Track #1 Track #2 Track #3 Track #4 <One of these is probably the obligatory Bowser's Castle track >unlockable (this is probably the Special Cup) Rainbow Road

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--- My side notes: Every cup has 4 race tracks and 3 road trips. There are 7 cups. This means 28 tracks and 21 road trips in total. If you add Rainbow Road, this game has at least 29 tracks. Maybe more if the Special Cup has 4 tracks too. The map also shows at least 29 different locations. Let's pretend that every Track counts as 1 point. And in each cup, you take 3 short roadtrips. So let's say these 3 roadtrips put together count as 1 point. (Since they're basically the "5th" race in every cup.) This means that every cup is worth 5 points (4 tracks + 3 short roadtrips). 7 x 5 = 35 points.... or 36 points if you add the Rainbow Road track. If you divide $80 by 36, that means you pay $2.22 dollars per Track. And that's not even counting the huge open world you can explore, and all the other side content mentioned in the Nintendo Direct. I ain't justifying that $80 price tag, but you do get some bang for your buck.

>>1146332 is anyone actually excited about the road trip thing

>>1146387 Me

>>1114103 >I could absolutely see the Rewind feature being utilized to do this if they aren't on the ball with track design There's text in the video saying Rewind can only be used in single player and free roam.

>>1114278 You are a fucking retard

>>1146332 Seems pretty packed with things to do, but I wonder how they'll incorporate possible track DLC. New continents or islands? 29 tracks and 21 road trips seems a bit light.

>>1114103 I see people using rewind to avoid blue shells mostly since other racers will just quickly pass them.

I'm really scared about the open world shit, it just doesn't make any sense for a party game like this. People just want to hop in and be racists, not deal with all this dead space and intermissions. >just skip it <no skippable content is ever worth your time so why is it there

>>1147031 Just my take, but if Mario Kart World ever gets DLC, they probably won't just shove DLC tracks into the existing map. Like, where the fuck would they put them? There's no room. Instead of that, I think they'll probably create a new map/sandbox with entirely with new areas to explore. The pokemon games already do this. Pokemon Scarlet/Violet's base game take place in a region called Paldea. But the Scarlet/Violet DLC take place in different but smaller regions that aren't in Paldea. They are new maps entirely.

>30FPS in splitscreen oh no no no no..

>>1148283 That’s what I believe as well, whole new area with more courses and whatnot. What i’m mainly wondering is to what scale they’ll do it. Assuming they don’t want it to happen years down the line it’ll have to be at a much smaller scale compared to the main map with a small handful of courses spread between the areas, which will be a bit of a hard sell if it is only a few

Is this angle really necessary?

>>1153962 absolutely

>>1153962 It wasn't just necessary, the addition of "flavor blast" right next to Peach's peach made it absolutely imperative.

>>1153962 So supple. So thicc.

>>1153962 Would you rather we didn’t have it? Is that what you’re saying?

>>1147737 I think Free Roam is going to be used to unlock stuff and serve as single player content. I am looking forward to it, being able to explore is something I enjoy.

>>1157040 I think completing P switch challenges could unlock customizable car parts. Like new wheels and new wheels as rewards for doing these side missions.

>>1157447 Doesn't seem like the vehicles are customizable this time. In the Direct, hitting the switches gave you some kind of sticker. Not sure what that's supposed to be for. Maybe it's just for some kind of player card, maybe you can slap it on your kart... Hell, maybe there's a Miiverse 2 on the horizon that they haven't shown yet.

>>1143114 >>1143268 Was it confirmed solo play?

>>1156086 I can't unsee it being a blue fart cloud

I tried watching the stream some more, but they can't really showcase the map transitions well for the races where you have to race to the next area. I do like that missions are coming back from DS, but DS had missions being separate which made them fast and easy, and the best ones were the boss battles. I'm 100% not buying at launch, since I plan on waiting on getting a switch 2 unless there is no emulation option a couple of years in. But it will be interesting seeing how many people will care on launch. Even with the 3DS dead, people played Mario Kart 7 non-stop. I don't see the reason why people will stop playing Mario Kart 8 either.

>>1147737 It's tacked on to justify the $80 pricetag.

If Double Dash gets added to NSO, will they enable the 16 player lan mode to be playable somehow?

>>1153962 wake me up when nintendo produces in game graphics like this. >>1138453 Yeah, Its comes out the day after my Bday. So I'll probably end up picking them up as gifts for myself.

>>1153962 Very necessary

Damn. Look at all these transitions!

>>1170451 >90% of the map is straight roads Cool!