Nintendo Shows Off Its Mario Golf: World Tour DLC Courses and Characters

First, Cant wait till may 2nd.

for a 3ds game looks pretty damn amazing...
also that peach stage looks awesome.

Awesome 8]

I thought about the whole DLC thing, will be getting the season pass because I discovered this game will just be $30.

Looks great for a 3DS game, though I dont think I'll be getting this over Kirby anytime soon, not a golf fan.

Guess it makes it a choice between pocket football club or More Mario Golf for me....

Do love that peach hole though - harks back to the N64 special courses which were just awesome.

I think this DLC, although a bit overpriced, is giving you a decent amount of content. Besides the game is being sold $10 dollars cheaper here in the US than most 3DS titles, so I don't see the issue.

Damn this is gerougeous! It may be shaping yup to be my best 3DS game!

This almost looks like a Wii U game if you ask me!

Wait a minute.....so the 3DS is a powerful system after all! That means we'll get to see GBA games on it.......right?!?!?!?

Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype.

Gorgeous. Hopefully NoA will have the same season pass promo for early adopters.

Day One DLC is always a bit worrying if you ask me, no matter who it comes from. If I do get this game, I'd rather spend my money on another game than DLC.

I was letting this game slip under my radar, but now after seeing these screeenshots and how the game looks overall I'm far more interested. Too bad I need to save up my money so I can Mario Kart 8 on release day.

Heh heh. You can tell that they re-used Metal Mario artwork for Gold Mario there. XD
At first I wasn't interested but I rather enjoyed the demo. I'm totally going to try and get this plus DLC since the DLC cost is temporarily discounted for a bit in Europe. I typically don't like the idea of Day One DLC but you pretty much get another full game's worth of content (at half price no less) if you buy the Season Pass price in this case. I just hope that character data is actually not there as opposed to being locked or something.

Most of the levels look pretty nice. Though the one in the mountains (the 5th level in the pictures) looks kind of bland.

A bit disappointed to see placeholder images instead of how the characters look in game. The courses look great.

Whoa, these courses are all remakes of the courses from the N64 Mario Golf! (Toad Highlands, Koopa Park, Shy Guy Desert, Yoshi's Island, Boo Valley, and Mario's Star)

Aww come on, Nintendo! You can't just recolour Metal Mario's artwork and have him lean on a golf club, not tyres! You ain't getting anything past me!

@DreamyViridi Not to mention they also reused the characters artwork from the mario games. How lazy can on be huh?

Can't wait for this. Loved the demo, so excited

I see that Nintendo/Camelot are re-skinning characters like in Mario Tennis Open shameless.

here's hoping that this one won't be such a letdown as Mario Tennis Open was

Are these 3DS graphics?!?!?

@Artwark Urm......(Someone show him the spec sheet)

Day 1 dc always kind of irks me, but the amount of content you get is impressive.

@Dark-Luigi - They could've at least replace Rosie's star wand with a golf club or something, yeah. [shrugs]

The DLC better not be the explaination of why this was delayed 9 months...

These courses look awesome!!! I will be getting the Season Pass!!

With a season pass and good-looking DLC, I might change my mind on this game.

ugh, DLC and a season pass, I think I'll pass

It looks pretty, Pretty meh I'm not the biggest fan of Golf.: ( hopefully we get a as beautiful Mario Strikers

I read somewhere that the 3DS can produce Graphics similar to a ps3 it just gets dumbed down due to the 3D (I forgot where I read that sadly) games like this Resident Evil an Kid Icarus Uprising make me believe that

Really not a fan of this kind of day one DLC, but I'll still get it because of all the new courses. I'll mostly use Yoshi anyway, so the added characters are mostly bonus material for me. Why Gold Mario over Metal Mario though?

This is VERY shady. Nintendo back with the NNID setup was talked about and 3DS having DLC in games (WiiU too) they spoke of having full games still released with just fun free premiums that would add to the game with the fluff stuff and optional things being pay.

Here we're seeing courses and characters being left out if you don't pay up $15(pack)/$18(alone each) on 3 courses each with a character and if you get them all you have Mario that blows coins out with every swing so you can cash in on stuff in the game. I'm pissed they've caved into the Sony/MS cash cow exploitation junk.

Never happy with day one dlc and these courses look better than some of the other courses I've seen from the base game; though granted it's difficult to judge properly based on the little I know at the moment. Also don't think it's fair that it costs £5.39 per pack if it costs $5.99 in North America. Read a comment saying the base game will cost $30 in North America, is this true? Is it going to cost £19.99 in Britain?

It's pricey, but seeing as it probably stays at 3 packs I might download it. Especially since Europe has a promotion.

Still getting Kirby first, but I'm definitely pickin this up some time soon!

this is going to be great.

the pricing is outrageous considering your paying full wack for this game, its not like steel diver. so now nintendo is jumping on the let cut this from the game and sell it as DLC later nintendo should be adding value to thier games not cutting them up in the hoipes to sell dlc.

@Sionyn Isn't this game only $29.99? That's $10 off from a normal priced game of $39.99.

@luke88 No, it'll cost around £30 in the UK, everything's pretty much always cheaper in USA.

@tanookisuit They're not being "left out", more that they wouldn't have been in the game at all if there was no DLC. By your logic DLC shouldn't exist at all (like with most DS/Wii games).

Damn this is making me pre order this game right now , but i cant i need the money for kirby.

I was excited for the full game and the DLC but I then found out that the full game is only $30. I'm even more psyched for the game now! May 2nd can't come soon enough!

@ChameleonBros why has no one else noticed this!!!! I now wish to go play mario golf (64) so I can pick out which holes these are

I can't condone this.

I have preordered the game. I am excited for it! I will be buying the season pass. w00t

Aw, Gold Mario? What is this, the N64 Mario Golf? Oh well, at least his Nice Shots will surely have some awesome gold trailing effect.

I can't for this game but the DLC better be stuff we actually download and add to the game. I cannot stand the DLC being a 10K key that simply unlocks content already in the game. I hope it also means that maybe after a year or so, they will offer new items to download and add to the game. On another note, one thing that makes me sad with added content: how will it be 10+ years down the line when we want to pick up and play this game and all of the DLC content is offline?

I've been gaming since 1976. it looks like 2014 will be the last of that gaming up too Monster Hunter 4. I'm just an old dude who doesn't like this new way of life in gaming. DLC, game shops, Pay to play. I want none of that. it won't be any big deal with me gone I'm a small player in a large pool. I just wanted to say goodbye now before Digital download became the norm.

Rosalina as DLC? Nintendo, you sly effers!

Are those 3DS screenshots? They look Wii U-ish.

Gold Mario looks a little familiar.

@siconlol Well....... MGS3 runs at 30fps on PS2 and 20fps on 3DS even in 2D if that tells you something.

@tanookisuit What are you talking about? Leaving characters and levels out? THis game even without DLC has no less levels or characters than any of the other Mario Golf Games. I think people are being confused by Day One DLC due to how so many companies HAVE been being shady and cheating people out of a full game with them. But really DLC isn't supposed to be stuff made for the game AFTER IT COMES OUT. But more stuff made SEPARATE FROM THE GAME. For all we know they just used the games actual budget to make the retail version. And then had another team with their own smaller budget just for DLC. That is how DLC should work anyways. And there is nothing wrong with that. The game is already $10 cheaper than any other 1st party 3DS games out there.

@Windy Sorry to see you go dude. The times they are a changing, and you have every right to dislike them and to just give up on gaming because of that. Sorry you don't seem to like how things have become. I myself am quite enjoying it (though I wish Nintendo was still as popular as it once was). But anyways, it's always sad to see someone go. Happy Gaming my friend.

@Grumblevolcano When you design doc before the game is out leaving course menu and player menu holes in those lists and charge to finish it, its being left out for more money. Andyou caught it, dlc shouldn't exist, one should buy a completed game for full price.

Those courses look really good on 3DS. Day1 purchase for me along with Kirby Triple Deluxe.

I'll probably hold off on the DLC for now. I'd hate buying a game and then having to immediately pay AGAIN just to access some more courses.

This may have already been said, but aren't these the six N64 courses?

@Bulbousaur
Same here. I just bought 4 games (Pokemon X, Luigi's Mansion, Fire Emblem, and Rayman Legends) and I pre-ordered Mario Kart 8 so I'm tapped out for money towards video games.

But this game looks awesome. It sounds like it will have light RPG elements as well.

Will Rosalina get a 'black hole in one'? Too soon...

Oh my at Gold Mario, if anything it should of been plain metal Mario or better yet, Dr. Mario.

These aren't in-game screenshots of Mario Golf World tour. These are 'concept shots.' These pictures are to show you what the courses look like (but oddly enough they're in HD) or Nintendo developed these in HD, took these screenshots, then will downgrade it to match 3DS capabilities. These are not 3DS screenshots.

@Windy Don't go, there are still great experiences out there and a lot of developers, particularly independent devs, are 'keeping it real'. I do understand your sentiments though.

@Grumblevolcano Is it? I thought North Americans generally paid around $60 at retail outlets for a wii u game, in britain they're usually/often £39.99. Either way, in this instance, I'm not paying so much more for the same product just because I happen to live in the U.K.

@DallasDiatorei I'm sure I won't be going anywhere soon. I have too play out this 3ds life there are a few games I want this year and hoping they might someday announce Fantasy Life. So I'm sure I will be around much much longer. I love Nintendo and will stick with them until the end or it gets better. Im sure I will be around for at least a couple more years.

Two 18 hole courses equals 36 "levels", right? So for $6 you get 36 levels and a new character? Seems like a pretty good deal to me.

Though I'm usually very against day 1 DLC, I don't mind it in this game because of the price. If you buy the game and the day 1 DLC on launch day, it will still be $4 less than a full priced 3DS game.