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[Draugoth]

 

[DerFuggler]

Nate the Hate's gonna enjoy this

 

[gimmmick]

We are never getting mk9 lol.

 

[DonF]

Fucking lol. Nintendo is such a weird company. New dlc for a game originally released on 2014.... Or 2017.

Hahaha god damn, and I bet it will sale like crazy....hahha

 

[anthony2690]

That is actually a bargain, and very impressive for dlc, I guess they realised they literally have so much money waiting to be made for MK8 DELUXE, I can imagine most people with a switch own mario kart 8 Deluxe (I don't know anyone irl that doesn't)

 

[Killer8]

Daaamn, I don't even need a Mario Kart 9 with this much content.

 

[Sp3eD]

Is that $25 per pack?

 

[Coolwhhip]

Why would Nintendo release DLC for a game that sold 50 million copies? Do they like money or something?!

 

[Synless]

Is that $25 per pack?

Total. Great value.

 

[Spukc]

good value but i am not krautfunding nintendo to make more tracks,, i wil get it when it's done

 

[Portugeezer]

We are never getting mk9 lol.

GaMeS aS a SeRvIcE

 

[Draugoth]

Is that $25 per pack?

Yes

 

[CuNi]

I guess that completely kills any chance of a MK9 being announced before 2024 since they said those packs will slowly roll out till end of 23.

Yes

No. 25$ in total for all packs if I understood it correctly.

 

[Sp3eD]

Total. Great value.

Good. It was weird how they phrased it. That’s an incredible value for that game. Totally worth it

 

[Horatius]

free with switch online thing that gives you the n64 emu and animal crossing too damn

honestly that's a whole new mario kart game basically, kind of great imo

 

[Nautilus]

 

[Pejo]

Any new karts/racers or just tracks?

 

[Edder1]

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[CuNi]

It's $25 a pack as you can only buy a pack (wave) at a time.

It's Wave 1-6, 48 Courses for 24,99$
So it's all for 25$

 

[Sp3eD]

It's $25 a pack as you can only buy a pack (wave) at a time.

If you look at the screens wording it says packs 1 - 6 is $25. It is confusing but it doesn’t look like it’s broken up other then how smash pass is with content drops.

 

[Swift_Star]

I guess that completely kills any chance of a MK9 being announced before 2024 since they said those packs will slowly roll out till end of 23.



No. 25$ in total for all packs if I understood it correctly.

That's what my friends are saying too.

 

[DeceptiveAlarm]

I'm glad their finally doing this. My son loves it. I was sick of same old tracks.

 

[Edder1]

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[AMSCD]

It's $25 a pack as you can only buy a pack (wave) at a time.

Its $25 for the entire pass, which gets you waves 1-6 (for a total of 48 courses).

 

[RoadHazard]

If this had included some kind of story mode or similar I'd be interested. Don't think I'll buy this just for online play with how incredibly barebones the SP is in this game

 

[sn0man]

good value but i am not krautfunding nintendo to make more tracks,, i wil get it when it's done

Yeah I’ll wait for a zoomer friend or two to nab it as it is released and then jump in for a MK8 Deluxe Final Mix cart in a couple years. Win win.

 

[AMSCD]

No. It's 6 waves of 8 tracks, each wave costing $25.

Look at the color. The blue for 48 courses is matched with the $25 price.

 

[CuNi]

No. It's 6 waves of 8 tracks, each wave costing $25.

I don't know man, that image that comes directly from Nintendo kinda disagrees with you on this one.

 

[Kittehkraken]

No. It's 6 waves of 8 tracks, each wave costing $25.

You are buying a booster course pass for $24.99 which includes waves 1-6.

 

[JimboJones]

I'm kinda ok with this.

 

[Edder1]

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[Kilau]

No. It's 6 waves of 8 tracks, each wave costing $25.

 

[Edder1]

I don't know man, that image that comes directly from Nintendo kinda disagrees with you on this one.

You're probably right, I was reading on sites like VGC where they reported that it's $25 a pack. That Nintendo image can be interpreted differently though.

 

[VN1X]

Really curious about those SNES and Gamecube remasters. Hopefully we get more footage soon!

 

[Kittehkraken]

Multiple sites are reporting that each wave will cost $25 while IGN says it's for the whole thing. I'm not sure now.

Nintendo is not charging $24.99 for 8 tracks.

This was the DLC for the Wii U:

Each pack was $7.99.

 

[CuNi]

Multiple sites are reporting that each wave will cost $25 while IGN says it's for the whole thing. I'm not sure now.

I think the issue is that you buy the "Booster course pass", which costs 25$ but the releases are called "Waves" since they don't all release at once.
So each wave has 8 courses, but you cannot buy a single wave, you only can buy the whole pass, kinda like a Season Pass.
Even in the trailer they say "The first wave of the booster course pass will release march 18th" which kinda implies that you cannot buy them separately but only in the pass.

You're probably right, I was reading on sites like VGC where they reported that it's $25 a pack. That Nintendo image can be interpreted differently though.

I mean it is color coded but I guess it wouldn't have hurt to say "buy the pass for only 24,99$" to make it absolutely clear.
Also, to be fair, I would have imagined that Nintendo would have briefed the bigger gaming outlets like 1 day in advance about the releases or something like that.
It's pure chaos on google.

 

[Edder1]

Nintendo is not charging $24.99 for 8 tracks.

This was the DLC for the Wii U:

Each pack was $7.99.

I'm probably wrong, there just seems to be a lot of misreporting going on at the moment. Btw, going by Wii U prices this DLC seems very cheap, which is unlike Nintendo.

 

[AJUMP23]

I think it looks cool.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Fucking lol. Nintendo is such a weird company. New dlc for a game originally released on 2014.... Or 2017.

Hahaha god damn, and I bet it will sale like crazy....hahha

Meanwhile Mario Party Superstars, despite being ripe for dlc with new boards, sits idle with the same five boards from launch.

 

[Neff]

I'm probably wrong, there just seems to be a lot of misreporting going on at the moment. Btw, going by Wii U prices this DLC seems very cheap, which is unlike Nintendo.

There's over 40m copies of the game out there. They'll clean up.

 

[Nikana]

I'm probably wrong, there just seems to be a lot of misreporting going on at the moment. Btw, going by Wii U prices this DLC seems very cheap, which is unlike Nintendo.

They are not going to charge $150 for 48 tracks.

 

[Spukc]

They are not going to charge $150 for 48 tracks.

What $150 for each single track?
That is insane

 

[Nikana]

What $150 for each single track?
That is insane

Gotta hit those growth targets.

 

[Kuramu]

this is cool with me. i only get new mario karts for the tracks anyway, and i love the reimaginings of old tracks

 

[Edder1]

They are not going to charge $150 for 48 tracks.

And yet they charge $60 for ports. But yeah, you're probably right.

 

[RoboFu]

It’s about f#%^* time! One of my favorite games has been in need of new DLC for a long time.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Sold. Perfect game that never gets old.

 

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

It's kinda crazy to realize there were enough courses from the old games to effectively make 2 years worth of paid DLC for Mario Kart 8.

(Though a part of me is hoping they're actually taking a few courses from non-Mario Kart racers. Mute City was pretty hype.)

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

 

[alf717]

I skipped on 8 Deluxe because I already owned it on WiiU. If there is a chance I can get this for $25-$30 new or used I'll pick it up and get the DLC ASAP.