Mario Kart World

double post but we have a glimpse of the character select screen

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Baby Mario and Baby Luigi get new poses!
 
I hope this game will get constant updates (not DLC, free updates) to have more characters and courses.
 
Princess Viola said:
they are seriously charging $80 for this

fuck off.

like it looks good obviously but fuck off.
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I assumed it was like that 'cause of the tariffs, but apparently those are the prices everywhere.

Emulators like me win lol

Xiahou Ba said:
double post but we have a glimpse of the character select screen

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Baby Mario and Baby Luigi get new poses!
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12 spots on page 1 + 4 pages = max 48 racers.
 
MetaWeegee said:
I assumed it was like that 'cause of the tariffs, but apparently those are the prices everywhere.
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Nintendo knows they can get away with it, considering the sales of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. They think they added some more extra playable characters and a semi-open world, they can suddenly hike up the price for the game.
 
The tariffs combined with inflation made a $10 increase in the baseline price from the Switch 1 to 2 expected imo. The only surprise here is Mario Kart being one of the "higher end" releases, but given how ambitious this one is combined with being the first fully original console entry in 11 years (god has it really been that long since I was being insufferable about 8's roster), I don't think this game being on the higher end is an unreasonable or absurd outcome. Plus you can get it for 50 if you buy it bundled with the Switch 2, which I don't see why anyone would choose not to if this is a game they want to get with the system.
 
It's not the tariffs. The price of the game is like this globally, and I don't quite buy the inflation excuse because much more expensive and feature rich games did recently got released without the increased price.
 
Holy crap 80 bucks for Mario Kart?! That's borderline insane. For comparison, 8 Deluxe is 60 dollars, meaning that there's a twenty dollar increase just for a new title!

Nintendo, I love you as a game developer and publisher, but man your business practices are freaking awful
 
Chowder said:
Holy crap 80 bucks for Mario Kart?! That's borderline insane. For comparison, 8 Deluxe is 60 dollars, meaning that there's a twenty dollar increase just for a new title!

Nintendo, I love you as a game developer and publisher, but man your business practices are freaking awful
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it's not like there's a trade war and tariffs going on or anything
 
This game better blow Mario Kart 8 Deluxe out of the water in terms of content to justify the high price point.
 
I can't be certain if that's intention or a coincidence. The neckband being spiky red and the sunglasses, I can see as maybe intentional, but on the other hand, they don't go all the way in like they should when referencing things and even give him the same colored shoes and it could easy pass off as a coincidence as a generic biker outfit that just so happen to share some features.
 
Chowder said:
This game better blow Mario Kart 8 Deluxe out of the water in terms of content to justify the high price point.
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their 'justification' is that mario kart is one of their premier franchises tbh

some people are saying the switch 2 is set up to be a 3DS-like stumble at launch because of the MKW price (plus the switch 2 price being $450) but honestly? nah.

like the reason why the 3DS stumbled at launch wasn't because it was $250 vs the $150 that the DS was at the time but because it had like...jack shit from nintendo and third-parties at launch.

as much as i hate the $80 price day for MKW, if that was all nintendo had at launch, i'd still say it was a better launch than the 3DS because all nintendo shat out for that was pilotwings resort, nintendogs + cats, and steel diver.

mario kart is a system seller.
 
okay don't abbreviate mario kart world as "mkw" people, i already got confused when people said "oh they're doing mkw footage" and i was like "nintendo is re-releasing mario kart wii on the switch???"
 
I also just want a reason for all the generic enemies and NPCs being playable (minus Koopa, Hammer Bro, Wiggler, Chargin' Chuck, and Monty Mole) and taking up almost half of the roster when we could have gotten characters like:

The Koopalings
Metal Mario/Pink Gold Peach
Diddy Kong
Funky Kong
Dry Bowser
Petey Piranha
Peachette
RPG characters
WarioWare characters
 
I don't mind the off-the-wall choices like a Dolphin being playable but yeah, I'd like a bit of balance between the goofy stuff and actual characters.
 
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