Mario Kart Tour's been celebrating two events in recent weeks. Having kicked off MAR10 Day with an appropriately themed "Mario Tour", Nintendo are also promoting Tour's 18-month anniversary. As part of that, a new Yoshi Tour has just gone live.
Marking the second Yoshi Tour so far, this will run until April 6th. There's no new tracks this time, but we've got three new characters: Blue Yoshi, White Yoshi, and Birdo (Black). Accompanying karts (Blue Yoshi excluded) and a new "Bright Balloons" glider are also confirmed.
As part of these celebrations, logging in each day gives players an anniversary bonus, which includes item tickets, coins, and rubies. New special challenges and tour gifts are included, and Nintendo previously released a short roadmap.
We still don't know what the following listed event will bring, though previous speculation believes this is Wario-related. Nintendo usually releases event details a few days before it begins, so we'll keep you updated then.
Will you be jumping back in for these anniversary celebrations? Share your thoughts below.
[source nintendoeverything.com]
Comments (27)
Can we get some love for Mario Kart 8 on Switch?
Nintendo: "No."
Meanwhile most of us are here waiting for a new actual Mario Kart game
Something something give us Mario Kart 9 something something.
Such a shame the Mario Kart that plays like crap (I did give it a chance) gets so many updates! Love to play as Birdo in MK8.
This game just gets better and better. Love the updates
Nope, not even more Yoshi is enough to draw me into this travesty money grab game.
I would've loved to try it if it was a single price purchase with everything unlocked (or regularly unlockable without needing to pay a dime more) but nah, has to be gacha. Totally ruins it.
But whatever. Hope people are still able to enjoy it.
Every time I see an article about MK Tour, I just get sad we don't get something like this in MK8 Deluxe. I would gladly buy a DLC pass to get regular updates like this.
Biggest mystery of why they didnt bother to do events like this for MK8. If we don't see new MK9 this is insulting honestly.
Just to be clear, this gets recognition for 18 months but Zelda gets ignored for reaching 35 years. Seems consistent with Nintendo's usual business plans.
The naming system is a bit odd. So Yoshi recolours have the colour ahead of the name, while Birdo has the colour afterwards and in brackets? I'm not complaining, it's just a bit unusual there isn't consistency there.
@JohnnyC Please, just be patient. I doubt that Nintendo would overlap anniversaries. They'll probably do something for Zelda once the Mario celebrations are all wrapped up.
@ObeseChihuahua2 I'll be happy if they do, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that last year's 35th Mario direct was to distract from the fact that their normal production/development had been devastated due to COVID. Fair enough if that's the case, but this sudden expectation that all major anniversaries of other major franchises will receive similar treatment doesn't seem too realistic to me. It's also worth bearing in mind that while Nintendo have done a lot of amazing stuff, they've also had more than their fair share of times when they've shot themselves in the foot.
@JohnnyC I feel like they probably still had the Mario anniversary stuff planned, but they just had to delay it because of COVID-19, rather than it being thrown together to distract from it. Besides that, I agree with you. Also, it is a bit disappointing that MK8DX isn't really getting much attention, but it's still selling extremely well, so I don't think that Nintendo feels the need to do more stuff for it. Also, I don't think that ports often get DLC, especially if the original game already got 2 rounds of it.
@ObeseChihuahua2 I'm not bothered about MK8D dlc, it's a great game that's as playable now as it was when it came out, and if dlc was going to happen it would have by now. My comment was more to do with the fact that Nintendo are highlighting an 18 month anniversary (since when is that a milestone?!?) of an inferior mobile title and seemingly ignoring major anniversaries of better games.
@carlos82 It is, in fact, almost 8.4 years since MK8 is originally released
@JohnnyC It does miff me a bit, too, but I doubt that they will do an anniversary of anything else other than LoZ.
@Mario_maniac sounds like a complaint to me. No Mario Kart Tour for you! Come back one year!
Love playing this on the bus and MK8D at home, best of both worlds.
we demand new tracks!!! or a new mario kart game.
@RodrigoCard
still no new mario kart after 8.4 years, its a bit scary
now this is one of the best mario kart edition, but why not make a new set of 22 courses for it?
@Pikki
i never found those mario kart dlc's a ripp off, its worth your money for this type of game.
I guess they're done with MK8D on the switch. I'd like to see something else anyway. Make a Nintendo Cart or Cart Bros. Use all the characters you got in SSB for a more broad and fun racebrawler.
Whiners and crybabies in 3..2..1...
Oh they were already here...
Seriously, just you don't get tired of this boring and constant complaining?
"Oh boo hoo why not this for a 7 YEAR OLD GAME THAT HAD A DELUXE VERSION A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO??????"
-You can play both games just fine
"NO!! EEW I AM HRDKORE I DONT PLAY MOBILE!!!!!!"
@Clyde_Radcliffe Then go and play MK8 and leave us the ones that enjoy without whining this game alone.
@RickD Because guess what? PEOPLE ENJOY THIS ONE.
Isn't that weeeeird?!???!
@Mambitos Or you can play this one instead of crying.
Funny huh?
@DanTheSausage Really? it took you 4 years to realize that? damn son
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