Expect Nintendo to keep experimenting in the mobile space, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, but always producing. Their undeniable success with the Switch is completely detached from their success in the mobile market, but with the idea of a dedicated Nintendo handheld slowly becoming a memory, it looks like smartphones are quickly filling that absence.
Nintendo says it will cease new content distribution of its mobile video game Mario Kart Tour for Android and iOS devices.
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’.
Nintendo’s former use of “Spotlight Pipes” in Mario Kart Tour is the subject of a proposed class action that alleges the company has deceptively induced players—especially minors—into paying real money to essentially gamble on winning in-game items.
These are filler experiences. Nothing more. They do NOT take the place of any offering on Switch or 3DS. Night and day.
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The most likely is Nintendo releasing classic games for mobile. Many people would love to play games like Super Mario Bros. 3, A Link to the Past and some classic Fire Emblems on the way to work and/or school.
Phones are a totally separate market. No one pays a retail price for phone games. How are you going to sell a traditional Nintendo game when the expectation is zero up-front cost, and paying as you go to play or to win? In terms of gaming, phones are a cesspool. I hope Nintendo continues to be smart enough to keep their real games away from it.
People need to stop this "mobile games are the future" shenanigans. DS found a market that didn't stay loyal but that there is the problem. They aren't loyal.
That includes loyalty to smart phone games. Use smart phones as a key market and its going to backfire.