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"There seems to be a changing of philosophy at Nintendo with regards to their Club Nintendo program. As the company begins to offer up purchase incentives - free AAA with the purchase of Mario Kart and free Ganondorf DLC for the purchase of Hyrule Warriors - and more digital content, it would not be surprising to see Nintendo phase out physical rewards."
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
Nintendo has recently restored Wii U Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon online after five months of being offline.
Mario Kart 8 has been out for nine years now if you include the Wii U version. Despite the Switch port continuing to sell insane numbers since it came out in 2017, many people believed that a new installment was way past due. When the Booster Course Pass was announced instead, it was a bit controversial, with one side of people stating that it was time for a new game, and the other side believing that this was the best course of action and that there's nothing else Nintendo can do to innovate the franchise.
There's nothing wrong with the games, but after most of them being very samey, I got a bit bored. I liked MKDS because it added a mission mode, yeah it didn't have maybe as many as I'd like but it was decent for variety.
I really prefer the new Mario Party for the different types of games in it.
Mario Kart doesn't really feel fresh because you know what to expect for every new game pretty much. The single player mode of DKR was far more in depth a game vs Mario Kart IMO, MK is probably better for multiplayer though.
It needs a campaign mode like Crash Team Racing with open hubs, driving around the Mushroom Kingdom, selecting your races and the like. Have a system like the CTR tokens within the races that then unlock secret racing cups later on or the time relics to unlock other things.
There's nothing wrong with the games but when you've had the same set up for so many games it just gets a bit samey after a while.
They could even have something like a track creator like Modnation Racers or something.
After starting with the first game on SNES, I think the last one I bought was on the DS.
I think the next gimmick should be interactive tracks with obstacles and traps such as maybe throwing a shell ahead to make something fall on another player Also have water and mud parts that effect handling more also fire parts that can cause you to over heat if you stay in it to long etc...
I don’t think it needs ‘a gimmick’ so much, because gameplay is pretty much perfect right now, but I would like the next Mario Kart to do either a ‘track-builder’ thing, so you just get access to the tools and make your own tracks (think Modnation Racers or LBP Karting), and/or expand upon ‘Mario’ Kart and open it up to the rest of Nintendo IPs, and just do a ‘Nintendo Kart’, so we’d see more of Zelda, but also Starfox, Kirby, Metroid, Valkyria Chronicles*, etc.
* I know, technically not ‘Nintendo’.
Hopefully it could save Nintendo
I read articles like this and wonder if people do any research. For instance, is the author aware that Nintendo has been offering bonuses here / there for specific titles for years?
The first one I recall was the free OoT OST with OoT 3D (easily better than some stupid costume DLC) and over the years there were the Kirby cards (raffle prize if you registered Kirby Collection), complete set of Kid Icarus cards (raffle prize if you registered KI), double points with purchase of Luigi U digitally, plus a chance to win a Luigi pin and maybe a few more that I am forgetting.
The same is true with the free game promotion (I think calling Wii Party U a AAA title is REALLY pushing it), since back when the Pikachu 3DS XL (this was over a year ago) came out they did a buy a 3DS XL + Dark Moon or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and get a free game promotion, then a buy SMT + FE and get $30 in eShop credit promotion, then a buy a 3DS / 2DS / XL and select game for a free game promotion. Sure Mario Kart 8 was a simpler promotion, though one could argue that it wasn't a change in planning, but actually a calculated plan to drive sales of Mario Kart 8 (something that totally worked).
So right now the only difference between Club Nintendo from a year or two ago is that they're offering twice as many digital games, costs have inflated (some games cost 100 more coins than they did in the past) and this years elite rewards were all digital (some suspect this wasn't part of a plan to move to digital, but simply to reduce program costs). Either or, nothing they're doing here is unique to things they've done in the past.
Good, I would prefer games or dlc over some physical thing like a blanket or towel or hat that takes up space.
This would be awful yeah let's spend our hard earned coins/stars on games that we can purchase with proper money anyway, uh no thanks I'll stick to buying the games I want and getting the Cool physical items might not be to everyone's tastes but a Wii classic controller in shape of a Snes controller, golden nunchucks, mario kart trophies and a Ball Game and watch remake, uh yeah I think I'll stick to the proper collectable stuff thanks not just digital offerings that can be bought here there and everywhere what's wrong with the collectable items?
I love how some people are acting like they are entitled to the FREE GOT DAM STUFF that Nintendo is offering. Anyone remember when you bought a game and the perk was that you got to play THAT GAME. Most of you now act like a developer owes you something because you chose to buy from them. Guess what, THEY DONT OWE YOU SHIT. You chose to purchase it because it was what you wanted. Just be happy with the fact they give you anything extra because there was a time when we all made less money and paid the same amount for the games and got nothing in return except the game we bought. No one is happy with anything anymore it is just give me more and give me more attitude from everyone. So they are giving DLC or digital games away. Who fu**ing cares. It is free games for something you were going to buy anyways! Idiots. Talk about looking the gift horse in the mouth. I swear you guys would complain about a free lap dance giving you too huge of a boner.