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[pulicat]

Correct. It's still a kids game though that can be enjoyed by families.

More adults are playing Mario Kart than TLOU games.

 

[TheMule1983]

More adults are playing Mario Kart than TLOU games.

Yeah with their families. Or in their mom's basement.

 

[pulicat]

Yeah with their families. Or in their mom's basement.

Nintendo 1st party games = Adults are the primary audience based on the data provided by Nintendo.

Sony 1st party games = Mostly kids and teenagers that yet to mature or reach adulthood.

 

[TheMule1983]

Nintendo 1st party games = Adults are the primary audience based on the data provided by Nintendo.

Sony 1st party games = Mostly kids and teenagers that yet to mature or reach adulthood.

Yes, adults buying their games for their kids. Sorry I struck a nerve about stating the obvious.

 

[Lynkk]

Yes, adults buying their games for their kids. Sorry I struck a nerve about stating the obvious.

Do we need to input ages in the Nintendo Switch Profile? Maybe their data comes from that.

 

[TheMule1983]

Do we need to input ages in the Nintendo Switch Profile? Maybe their data comes from that.

How would that be more accurate? My 6 year old plays on my profile. I'm not making her an account.

 

[Idleyes]

Ignoring the shit breath talkers barking outta the ass. Who's fixing to be out the gate on day one? Don't lie nigga. I know I will.

 

[Lethal01]

Things that should have easily been included in a game that took 11 years to make and is being charged at the highest paid launch game ever at $80-90

Being a bit serious, this game has pobably been in dev for 5 about

 

[Lethal01]

Correct. It's still a kids game though that can be enjoyed by families.

For sure, Same goes for something like Forza H 5, Fun for all ages No shame in that, the mechanics means anyone can choose to play it for some quick fun or competitively

 

[Lethal01]

Yes, adults buying their games for their kids. Sorry I struck a nerve about stating the obvious.

Nintendo does do competent polling that makes sure to gathe who is actually playing the game, not just who bought it.

 

[AJUMP23]

Kachow


She is the new lightning McQueen.

 

[Robb]

 

[TheChadOfGaming]

you can play as cow 10/10 goty confirmed

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

you can play as cow 10/10 goty confirmed

It's not beating GTA VI and Oblivion Remake unless they rename it to Moo Moo.

 

[saintjules]

People are still hyperboling the physical price since nintendo left it out. Turned out to be $80 just like the digital version

Still too damn high imo, definitely going for the bundle to cut out a good $30

 

[Magic Carpet]

Finally got to see the Mario Kart World Direct just now.
That was a lot of game.

 

[lakitu1982]

This has NOTHING on Diddy Kong racing. If they could have just copied that.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

This has NOTHING on Diddy Kong racing. If they could have just copied that.

If they copied Diddy Kong Racing with "star" collection to unlock new areas combined with bosses, etc.....man oh man, it would go down as an all time classic.

I think they simply thought that would be too much of a challenge to players having to unlock tracks like that and so they bowed to casual appeal instead.....Boo.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

looks fun, and there are missions in the world with those hidden P buttons -- hard to tell but I get the sense that they'll activate different kinds of challenges when you find them, not just blue coin runs

 

[Polygonal_Sprite]

Never expected them to put so much effort into MK tbh. I expected another 16 tracks / 4 cups with a reboot to the characters down to a core 12 again.

This must be up there with Zelda for the most expensive Nintendo game ever made surely? There's 100's of outfits alone…

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Correct. It's still a kids game though that can be enjoyed by families.

"kids games" as you call them, can be some of the best and most fun.

 

[DenchDeckard]

What do you base that on? They barely told us anything we didn't already know.

As a huge Mario kart fan. World delivers the largest advancements in Mario kart history.

Full open world to explore and collect items / secrets.

24 player races, all new items.

New skill moves to avoid weapons. Jumps tricks. WALLRIDING!

Fully online with 4 teams of 6 players. Competitive Mario kart, anyone??

Fall guys esque battle royal elimination online.

Racing to next races. Battle mode.

If you have a sniff of interest and don't think this looks amazing for Mario kart, we truly are reaching a point where people are dead inside.

Each to their own but im hyped as fooook.

Edit. I hope we can have a large Mario kart community here and do some online races together.

 

[Robb]

There's 100's of outfits alone…

Yeah, which is super cool, I just wish they designed the menus better. Like, wtf is this?

13 (and maybe even more when everything's unlocked) freaking pages of characters/costumes to scroll through..

 

[MagiusNecros]

Yeah, which is super cool, I just wish they designed the menus better. Like, wtf is this?

Guess they got the menu designer for Echoes of Wisdom to work on this game. Character selection looks obnoxious.

 

[Robb]

Guess they got the menu designer for Echoes of Wisdom to work on this game. Character selection looks obnoxious.

Yeah, it's even more annoying here though considering they had this figured out in Mario Kart 8 where you can pick colors for Yoshi after you've actually picked Yoshi..

So you know it's not just an oversight but rather a very intentional design decision.

 

[Boneless]

24 players is probably the best change for me. More players, more chaos, more fun.

I loved playing L4D2 10v10 for that reason.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Yeah, it's even more annoying here though considering they had this figured out in Mario Kart 8 where you can pick colors for Yoshi after you've actually picked Yoshi..

So you know it's not just an oversight but rather a very intentional design decision.

MK8 was much much cleaner and showed every character on one page. With this you'll be flipping through pages for whatever character or costume you want to use. I'd prefer select a character then select a costume. Selecting you kart looks to share the same format.

It's a very interesting design decision.

 

[ADiTAR]

MK8 was much much cleaner and showed every character on one page. With this you'll be flipping through pages for whatever character or costume you want to use. I'd prefer select a character then select a costume. Selecting you kart looks to share the same format.

It's a very interesting design decision.

It's a bad design choice. I dunno who is in charge of UI, but it'll be much easier to have 3 columns, of selecting a character, outfit, and car.

 

[RoadHazard]

As a huge Mario kart fan. World delivers the largest advancements in Mario kart history.

Full open world to explore and collect items / secrets.

24 player races, all new items.

New skill moves to avoid weapons. Jumps tricks. WALLRIDING!

Fully online with 4 teams of 6 players. Competitive Mario kart, anyone??

Fall guys esque battle royal elimination online.

Racing to next races. Battle mode.

If you have a sniff of interest and don't think this looks amazing for Mario kart, we truly are reaching a point where people are dead inside.

Each to their own but im hyped as fooook.

Edit. I hope we can have a large Mario kart community here and do some online races together.

Ok, I thought you were calling the Direct itself "bonkers". Almost all of that was known two weeks ago.

 

[RoadHazard]

Yeah, which is super cool, I just wish they designed the menus better. Like, wtf is this?

13 (and maybe even more when everything's unlocked) freaking pages of characters/costumes to scroll through..

Yeah, if there isn't at least an option to display just the characters and then select costume separately, someone on their UX team is incredibly stupid. This CAN'T be the only way to select character/costume, I just can't believe that.

 

[ADiTAR]

Yeah, if there isn't at least an option to display just the characters and then select costume separately, someone on their UX team is incredibly stupid. This CAN'T be the only way to select character/costume, I just can't believe that.

There is a sort button there. But yeah, its like a very simple menu design basically saying just scroll.

 

[rkofan87]

Where is rainbow road?

you have to beat all the cups in grand prix

 

[rkofan87]

For me starting to reconsider my preorder, not the biggest Mario kart fan, it's ok to play a game now and again, to me this isn't the game I'd buy a system and play none stop for weeks or months, donkey Kong or a better flushed out single player game should have launched with the switch 2, plus people already complaining about the price of this game wait for six months and the paid dlc starts

this what i am doing once dk is out i am on the hunt for the bundle.

 

[nnytk]

Dude, the main selling point of Mario Kart is racing with people, who the hell playing Mario Kart for story .

People are pretty hyped for this game, Mario Kart World has the highest views for Switch 2 game and about to sell over 50m units easily.

I think the guy you're replying to is just saying what he hopes for in a Mario Kart evolution—he's not alone.

I don't play handheld or online. I got the Switch for deep, exclusive singleplayer games.

If Mario Kart leaned into that—like Smash did with its singleplayer modes—it'd be a home run for me.

Right now, it feels like they're pushing extras like a camera and online sub for features I don't care about.

Game looks fun, but it's not pushing me to pre-order, at all. To each their own

 

[Polygonal_Sprite]

Yeah, which is super cool, I just wish they designed the menus better. Like, wtf is this?

13 (and maybe even more when everything's unlocked) freaking pages of characters/costumes to scroll through..

I didn't catch that. I thought it would be more like Smash Bros with a button on each character to cycle through costumes?

 

[Robb]

I didn't catch that. I thought it would be more like Smash Bros with a button on each character to cycle through costumes?

Yeah, I think everyone except for the Mario Kart World developers thought that.

 

[Polygonal_Sprite]

Yeah, I think everyone except for the Mario Kart World developers thought that.

Let's hope it's not final lol !

Let's face it they want you to see lots of costumes for when they start selling them in a year for $20 a pop like Fortnite skins!

 

[Scrawnton]

We are back to the "Nintendo is a kiddie platform for kids not serious adult gamers and if an adult buys it it's for their kids" discourse again?

 

[TheMule1983]

We are back to the "Nintendo is a kiddie platform for kids not serious adult gamers and if an adult buys it it's for their kids" discourse again?

It's been this way since N64. Nintendo is a platform for families and kids. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Serge85]

The content I play defines me. I play TLOU and God of War , that is why I'm so mature and grown up.

 

[yipchunyu]

Yeah, I think everyone except for the Mario Kart World developers thought that.

May be they think it's a great idea to show customers why the content of the game justify the high cost

 

[Majukun]

Yeah, which is super cool, I just wish they designed the menus better. Like, wtf is this?

13 (and maybe even more when everything's unlocked) freaking pages of characters/costumes to scroll through..

I thought there were just that many unique characters...if a cow in in it and you have little less than 30 characters per race, you need an huge roster.

but this being said, after seeing BOTW/TOTK/EoW UI and menu issues, I'm convinced Nintendo got the new generation of UI artists off a street.

 

[TheMule1983]

The content I play defines me. I play TLOU and God of War , that is why I'm so mature and grown up.

If you like content aimed at kids, more power to ya!

 

[Stafford]

I like the new outfits but the new characters seem very......lazy? Well except for Goomba, I love Goomba.

 

[schaft0620]

Having to check 4 times a day to see if they announced pre-orders is getting annoying.

 

[DirtInUrEye]

How long till this comes to Switch 1 due to sluggish adoption of the new system? We all know it could easily run it.

 

[Robb]

How long till this comes to Switch 1 due to sluggish adoption of the new system? We all know it could easily run it.

We do? Mario Kart 8 Deluxe runs 30fps in split-screen on Switch, and supposedly Mario Kart World runs 30fps in split screen on Switch 2.

No way they'd be able to port it to Switch(1) and keep it in a playable state. 30fps alone is already questionable for a racer.

 

[Trilobit]

More adults are playing Mario Kart than TLOU games.

Mario Kart actually has gameplay.

 

[Fess]

Just saw this direct with the family. This game is going to sell like crazy.

 

[K' Dash]

Yes, adults buying their games for their kids. Sorry I struck a nerve about stating the obvious.

My dear 10yo, us Mellenials, who are already close or already in our 40s, grew up with Nintendo and Sega, we buy their games to play them ourselves, the fact that my kids like them is just the cherry on top.

Stop acting like my kid on his edgy/emo phase, it's cringe.