• @Katana314
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    10 months ago

    Time for Mario Kart 9.

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 months ago

      Tour was 9. Apparently they’re working on “MKX” for switch 2, but it’s all just rumors with zero evidence.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      Maybe.

      But just know they’re not going to make Mario Kart: Amiibo Festival then wait a generation and follow it up by Mario Kart: New Horizons, where they promise you more content, but retract that promise the instant it hits the #1 unique seller for the platform and leave it with less content than Mario Kart 8.

  • @charles
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    1210 months ago

    At some point, it’s had to hit full saturation.

    • sebinspace
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      310 months ago

      Fuck, even I bought the game, and I’ve been a simcade Forza/Gran Turismo addict for years, haven’t played MK since the N64.

      It’s good. Really good.

  • Blue
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    1010 months ago

    Just after the final DLC wave?

  • @kuneho
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    10 months ago

    they should make Mario Kart open world and marry it with Need For Speed => Mario Kart Underground.

    hey, Nintendo employee who use Lemmy and read this: push this up for the big bosses around you, because man, that would be a super epic game and a worthy sequel

    • @PieMePlenty
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      310 months ago

      Also add a subplot involving an underground crime ring stealing VCR/DVD combo units.

  • @samus12345
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    810 months ago

    I think Nintendo Kart would be a nice follow-up, with stuff from all of Nintendo’s IP.

    • @mostNONheinous
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      910 months ago

      There are at least 10 non Mario characters in game aleeady.

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        Yes, but it’s still 90% Mario. There’s a lot of new stuff they could introduce if they bring in not just new characters, but tracks, weapons, and mechanics themed on other IPs.

    • Billiam
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      510 months ago

      Super Smash Kart?

      • @samus12345
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        That works. Hell, you could even get non-Nintendo characters in there! Pac-Man has already ridden karts with Mario:

  • @yamanii
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    710 months ago

    Can we finally get F-Zero now?

  • I Cast Fist
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    610 months ago

    I wonder how many of those sales come from being bundled with a Switch. The report says it lacks digital sales and only makes a passing mention of the bundle

  • @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    I just got into it again. I played through 7 and put it away. Begrudgingly bought 8 for the kids and decided it was the same game. Started playing with the wife because she was into it suddenly, just in time for the dlc.

  • @3ntranced
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    -110 months ago

    Breaking News: Gamers surprised to hear anyone still plays Mario Kart 8

    • @[email protected]
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      1610 months ago

      Speak for yourself, “gamer”, it’s the latest Mario Kart game, obviously we’re all still playing it. Have you gone back to Double Dash?

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        The latest one is “Mario Kart Arcade GP VR” how can you call yourself a “gamer” if you don’t have four of these machines in your living room? Smh

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          I actually built my own go-kart track next to a tortoise sanctuary and a banana plantation for the true experience, casual!

        • @CrayonRosary
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          110 months ago

          Mario Kart Arcade GP VR

          Does it come with a vacuum tube to collect the vomit?

      • @3ntranced
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        210 months ago

        I just meant in the sense that it was in the top 20 games in the US. Of course its the most popular mario kart game at the time, but I had no idea people play it enough to generate a concurrent playerbase that large.

        With the general lack of content beyond the initial unlocks/DLC and track packs, I wouldn’t think there was that many people playing essentially becomes a time trial game every day. Then again I play wow now so maybe I do understand.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          This is to do with sales, not any concurrent active player metric. Even if it weren’t though, Mario Kart is about playing with friends locally!

          • @3ntranced
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            19 months ago

            Just need to get some friends…

            • @[email protected]
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              19 months ago

              Everyone’s your friend when you’ve got Mario Kart! (Then you blue shell them on the line and you’re back where you started, worth it though)

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      I am. Played pretty hardcore between 2014 - 2016. Didn’t realize it was still going strong.