Nintendo Working on 'Mario Kart Tour' Game for Mobile Devices

Just buy the Switch. The best console experience I have had since the Wii.
Nintendo executed it so well and I'm convinced that the gaming console's life as a mainstream device is not over yet.
 
I’m much more convinced that a Mario Party game would work better on mobile devices. Have been hoping for this since Nintendo first announced they were developing for mobile. Oh well.
 
mtneer said:
I wish this can make use of Apple's AR features to really make an awesome racing experience.
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Funny thing is that's pretty much what they're doing with their Mario Kart ride that's coming to Universal Studios, it's gonna heavily rely on AR and it sounds incredible, so who knows they might be looking into doing something crazy like that but I can't think of a way AR could work with a game like Mario Kart on a phone
 
This will be the most interesting game then of 2019! Let’s hope they keep it in the same 3D format and give it online racing!!
 
The beginning is now for Nintendo’s assault on mobile gaming. It’s as if they don’t realize how they could own phone gaming just by porting their older games over. I can imagine it’s not as easy as one would think. But they need to at least make the effort. Again.....I would pay 20 bucks a game for some of their classics on my iPhone and iPad.
 
Aussi3 said:
Now this might be alright! Until they announce first race is free then it’s pay per race... lol
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If this happens, you honestly won't be able to blame Nintendo. Super Mario Run was a flat $10 with no micro transactions or in-app purchases, and Nintendo still haven't been able to recover being lambasted by the mobile community over that. Consumers have proven they rather continue being duped into paying tens or hundreds of dollars over time, rather than a simple, low, up-front cost.
 
ghost187 said:
If you expect MK8 like experience, it’s never coming. These are all free advertisements for Nintendo. It worked for me. I have stopped playing video games for years, than downloaded Mario Run, finished it in 30 minutes, completed everything over a weekend, than bought the Switch day 1 and got blown away by Zelda BOTW.
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It has the opposite very disenchanting affect on me I think Nintendo is super lame now.
 
Dear Nintendo,

Please... just release the damn games. SMB and MarioKart proper. Then we'll care about your other stuff.

-GXers
 
I hate the freemium model, but over and over the consumers seem to favour this method and no one is paying full license. I just can't blame the businesses any more.
 
Asarien said:
If this happens, you honestly won't be able to blame Nintendo. Super Mario Run was a flat $10 with no micro transactions or in-app purchases, and Nintendo still haven't been able to recover being lambasted by the mobile community over that. Consumers have proven they rather continue being duped into paying tens or hundreds of dollars over time, rather than a simple, low, up-front cost.
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I’d rather the ad approach some devs take lol or one time pay and no micro transactions
 
Is nobody else bothered when something is described as 'releasing soon' or 'releasing next year?'

No! Nintendo is releasing. The game is being released. The game is not releasing.

I've seen this form used with increasing frequency over the past five-or-so years and it sends me slightly berserk, especially when it's used by big companies whose PR departments really should know better.
 
macduke said:
Please don’t dumb it down too much…please don’t dumb it down too much…please don’t dumb it down too much…
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This. Mario Kart is the perfect mobile game. I played the hell out of the DS version and played many a clone on the iPhone. I am loving Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch, but if I could have (anything close to) it on my phone that would be even better.
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-Garry- said:
Is nobody else bothered when something is described as 'releasing soon' or 'releasing next year?'
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No one bothers to read up on the Osborne Effect anymore.
 
redneckitengineer said:
Hopefully this won’t canibalize Switch sales. It’s a while out, but still, gotta keep something sacred.
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I doubt that's going to be an issue, after all it will probably be very limited like all other Nintendo mobile games. There's only one way to play Nintendo exclusives and that's on a Nintendo console.
 
MacRumors said:
Mario Kart is on of Nintendo's most popular titles, and a Mario Kart mobile game would follow successful mobile versions of games in the Super Mario, Animal Crossing, and Fire Emblem franchises.

Nintendo's other mobile games include Super Mario Run, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, and Fire Emblem Heroes. The company's first game on iOS devices was Miitomo, which was released in March of 2016. Nintendo this week announced that it plans to shut down Miitomo on May 9, 2018.
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Trying to boost your word count? Lol
 
Mario Run didn't meet expectations because the game is bad!

I lost interest in the first level!

I would gladly pay 10 dollar for a Super Mario World port!

Nintendo has to understand that their power lies with the classics. That is where the big money cow is.
 
Asarien said:
If this happens, you honestly won't be able to blame Nintendo. Super Mario Run was a flat $10 with no micro transactions or in-app purchases, and Nintendo still haven't been able to recover being lambasted by the mobile community over that. Consumers have proven they rather continue being duped into paying tens or hundreds of dollars over time, rather than a simple, low, up-front cost.
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I don't doubt that, but is there actual data to back that up? I gladly paid the $10 for Mario Run and be done with it. Had it been micro transaction based like animal crossing, I never would've even downloaded it.

Mario Kart wouldn't be complete without online play. I imagine Nintendo would need to seriously increase their server capacity to serve the many millions of iOS devices out there. For that reason I would pay up for $20 for it, *possibly* DLC for future expansion packs but no other micro transactions.

Mario Run is Mario done right on a mobile device. It'll be interesting to see how Nintendo handles touch controls on a smartphone.
 
Blakjack said:
The beginning is now for Nintendo’s assault on mobile gaming. It’s as if they don’t realize how they could own phone gaming just by porting their older games over. I can imagine it’s not as easy as one would think. But they need to at least make the effort. Again.....I would pay 20 bucks a game for some of their classics on my iPhone and iPad.
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Seriously - All Nintendo has to do is write their own emulator and put it up on the App Store with IAP’s of the games.

As long as it’s controller capable people would probably have no issue paying 5-10 per game for Nintendo classics. I’m not even talking about third party games. Just straight first party Nintendo NES/SNES/GB/GBA games.
 
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