Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling racing game in US history, with over 43 million copies sold to date. While players may be dubious of the amount of effort put into this expansion by Nintendo, from Nintendo’s perspective, it’s an absolutely genius move. Mario Kart 8 DLC is For Great For Nintendo But Not For Fans The game's original roster of courses brought a heightened level of details to the tracks that had not been seen before in a Mario Kart game, and the DLC's additional levels don’t appear to have been upscaled to the quality of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at all. Fans quickly took to Twitter to point out the smooth, under-detailed textures to the DLC race track’s environments that don’t quite match ups to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s initial lineup of racetracks. This is a huge level of support for a beloved game, but taking a closer a closer look at the tracks, concerns about the quality and effort with which these new additions were treated is coming under scrutiny. This strategy could be a misfire for them, as fans aren’t too pleased that this all means Rockstar is in no rush to get GTA 6 out any time soon and likely means the same with Nintendo, Mario Kart 9's release date won't be soon either.
It feels like Nintendo is taking a page out of Rockstar’s handbook, which continues to support and re-release GTA 5, 9 years after its initial release, with a 3rd version of the game coming out for next-gen consoles (and GTA’s third console generation since launch) later this year. 5 years later, players are essentially getting a third version of this same game. In 2017 Nintendo released the enhanced version of the game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, for Nintendo Switch. Mario Kart 8 was released as a Wii U game first in 2014, which, to be fair, didn’t see as much action as it could have because of the poor sales of the Wii U. The laziness of Nintendo's move becomes almost overt when factoring in that this is the third time that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is being expanded upon. Nintendo Takes A Shortcut With Mario Kart 8 DLC What the release of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course DLC Pack shows is that Nintendo had a truly ridiculous number of legacy Mario Kart tracks at the ready to build into a new experience, but instead, Nintendo chose to support this existing game. fighters as well as almost every stage from the past decade of Super Smash Bros. Smash Ultimate included all 74 past Super Smash Bros. The rumor mill seemed to think that such a game would turn out to be a sort of Mario Kart "Ultimate", following in the vein of Super Smash Bros.
In fact, in the weeks leading up to the event, numerous leaks had led fans to believe that a Mario Kart 9 reveal would be part of February's Direct. This is a lot of additional content for an extremely popular game, but the disappointment is that many were really anticipating a Mario Kart 9 announcement by Nintendo. Related: Mario Kart 8 Highlights Nintendo's Roster Problem Confirmed additional tracks in Mario Kart 8's first Booster wave include Toad Circuit from Mario Kart DS, Choco Mountain from Mario Kart 64, and the Coconut Mall from Mario Kart Wii. The tracks will be released in six waves, with the first wave of tracks coming in March and the final wave coming at the end of 2023. For a one-time cost of $24.99 - or at no additional cost for players that own the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership - players are entitled to all four dozen tracks as they release. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass DLC (quite a mouthful!) features 48 tracks from throughout the history of Mario Kart. It feels hard to complain when Nintendo’s offering so much new content, but while it's a business-savvy move for Nintendo, it’s not Mario Kart 9 and feels like the laziest possible effort that Nintendo could have made. The news of these tracks was especially surprising because there had just been a recent announcement that Mario Kart 9 was in development, and fans were surprised to see the only Mario Kart news at the event focused exclusively on the old game. At last week's Nintendo Direct, plenty of surprises were announced including Booster Course Pass DLC a brand new set of DLC tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxewhich - as far as surprises go - is the easiest route for Nintendo to have chosen, but a smart one for the company.
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