Mario Kart Tour is kicking off the Exploration Tour on 7th February, and with it, a brand new course for the Mario Kart series is being introduced — Piranha Plant Cove!
Announced by the official Mario Kart Tour Twitter account, we don't know much about the new course yet, except that it's an underwater course filled with ruins and statues of Piranha Plants. You can see two Petey Piranha stone heads near the back. Also, everyone remembers the eel from Super Mario 64, right? He's there too! Great! All of our nightmares back to haunt us...
The team want us all to play a little game of 'Spot the Difference', probably to hammer home the 'Exploration' theme of the tour.
Of course, a new course in Mario Kart Tour is exciting, but this begs the question — will this course be coming to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? Tour tracks have featured prominently in the Booster Course Pass, with Sky-High Sundae also being a new course that was created for Tour (but first appeared in Wave 2 of the DLC).
If you want to try out Piranha Plant Cove in Tour, you can check out the course when it arrives on 7th February next week!
Do you think we'll be seeing this course in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? Do you enjoy underwater courses? Let us know!
[source twitter.com]
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Nice! Likely new DLC course for MK8DX. I really love that Tour was included.
How does this mobile crap get so much content?!
Jelly.
@ketrac just one word MONEY
This looks great! I'd be happy for it to move over to MK8D..but we have some great unreleased classic tracks already, such as many from GC days! Look,s very fun. Mario Kart Tour is fun...I don't spend anything on it but still have a great time (OK I admit I DID once buy rubies to buy Party Toad!)
Of course this will come to 8 Deluxe.
We might as well just give up on the hope of MarioKart 9, they are just putting these new tracks on their mobile game and then will be part of one of the expansions, its just sad
@Bunkerneath I know. I just don't understand why people pay for mobile games
Hopefully its more like Ninja Hideaway and less like Merry Mountain and that Ice cream track
@Bunkerneath Mario Kart Tour is MK9. How do people not understand this by now?
@mariomaster96 Right. I think we have more than our fair share of ovals in the series.
@ketrac for me it’s some sort of addiction tbh. I hate it. The games are made to hook people on them… :/ I’ve spent so much money on Fire Emblem Heroes. I feel like if I stop playing it and spending money, all the money I’ve already spent on it will be for nothing.
It's great to get new tracks to Mario Kart 8. No doubt this will be in future dlc.
People always need some time to familiar with new stuff.
@Dylansuxx Spoiler: it's all for nothing and the game will shut down with no way to maintain what you bought. Mobile games are not preserved. They are use and dispose.
If you did it on a credit card you might still be able to do a chargeback.
Looks awesome! I would like to race in DK Jungle with Cranky Kong soon.
@ketrac yeah obviously lol. But when you’re in that position of being addicted to the game like that, it’s hard to think of when the game will shut down and stuff lol. I wish I could stop spending money on it tho. Been wondering for a while if there’s rehab for gacha gambling addictions.
Mario Kart Tour greatly improved over the years, it's not complete garbage.
The best thing about that game is that the gameplay is unique from the other Mario Kart games, think this game like a mix between Tony Hawk, Mario Kart and Gran Turismo, this game is all about stunts and combos to get the best score, and it also works like a RPG where you need to unlock and upgrade more racers, karts and gliders to improve the score, unfortunately, that means some Pay-2-Win aspects but the game is still chill on that.
Plus, loot boxes, well, pipes, were removed recently, due to government regulations, but still.
@victordamazio Does it have real multiplayer now, or fake multiplayer still?
@ketrac It has real multiplayer now.
feels very uninspired but at least Ive got both my peteys at high levels, theyve been killing me on loadouts recently
@AlexanderDaniels Exactly. Even if we do get an MK9 which is now pretty much never going to happen, it will just be 8 Deluxe plus Tour. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo at sone stage just go fully mobile.
@AlexanderDaniels it just sucks that the Switch never got its own unique MK. DLC is meh.
Aw hell naw bruh they brought the eel back?
Looks cool, I wonder if it’ll be as hated as Sky High Sundae lol
@AlexanderDaniels
What!? what's is your logic? It's a mobile spin-off title.
It's like calling Uncharted Golden Abyss a mainline title.. Nintendo will obviously release a true successor to Mario Kart 8 at some point, and it will not be a mobile phone title, trust me.
I think that they will release a new Mario Kart main line title with their next hardware, it would be a weird if they reused Mario Kart 8 again.
Weird to think Petey Piranha is getting his own Mario Kart track...in the year 2023
I would love to see that Bowser shell come back from Double Dash in a future update for MK8D
Hmmm. Where are the rest of the new MK8 tracks that should have been released by now?
I wish they would wait for this to come out in the MK8 dlc first, then put it onto mobile. It kinda takes the excitement out of a brand new track on mk8
@victordamazio Finally someone who knows what they're talking about when speaking of Tour, couldn't have said it better myself!
The only real downside for me is the monetization (although to be fair we would most certainly not have all those cool characters etc. without it), but even that is not enough to prevent me from playing it, have much more fun in single player with it than most if not all Mario Karts while 8 Deluxe is obviously still way better for multiplayer!
Anyway, the partially submerged temple aesthetic is pretty cool, plus there seem to be alternative routes included in its layout judging by the deviation arrows, can't wait to race on this track in Tour soon and hopefully also in 8 Deluxe at some point!
There just is no need for more than one Mario Kart on a console; enjoy the toys you have.
@DaniPooo Mario Kart Tour was proven to be MK9 because Nintendo announced new content for MK8 Deluxe through the Booster Course. It's as much counted a mainline entry as Fire Emblem Heroes is counted as a numbered entry of the Fire Emblems. Mobile or not. MKT was made by Mario Kart team. Next Mario Kart will not be called 9. You just want to be justified for dismissing a mobile game.
@AlexanderDaniels Eh... Well that's YOUR logic.
"Mario Kart Tour was proven to be MK9 because Nintendo announced new content for MK8 Deluxe through the Booster Course." - I really don't see your point, How does this prove anything? All it tells me is that Nintendo just don't see the need of making a new Mario Kart game just yet because they can milk Mario Kart 8 a while longer. This does not prove that Nintendo won't release a new Mario Kart title on the next hardware and call it Mario Kart 9.
I mean they do not seem to count their Mario Kart arcade games as mainline, so who knows if they count a mobile title as mainline? It's impossible to know unless Nintendo themselves speak up on the matter.
Soooo, unless you get official words from Nintendo on the matter then NOTHING is proved. And don't even try to guess what Nintendo will/won't do, many have tried and failed.
@DaniPooo "How does this prove anything?"
The info graphic of past main Mario Karts they showed off in the reveal trailer for the Booster Course Pass I highlighted before
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"I mean they do not seem to count their Mario Kart arcade games as mainline"
The Arcade games were made by Namco. Tour being 9 makes sense considering that, unlike Live: Home Circuit or the Arcade games, Tour was actually made in-house at EPD 9, who developed Mario Kart 8
"Who knows if they count a mobile title as mainline?"
Nintendo theirselves has proved through their actions, with their info graphic including MKT, their in-house development team behind the development of both games, and the solidifying fact that Tour stages are in MK8 Deluxe. You sound like those over a decade ago who claimed the portable Mario Karts didn't count as mainline before Mario Kart 3DS featured a number in its title. Not sure why you taken issue of Tour being MK9, maybe because it's not featured on their own hardware or it's simply a mobile title?
@AlexanderDaniels
You may be correct, or perhaps not. We'll see..
I am not saying that they will call their next game Mario Kart 9.
I am questioning how you can be so certain, because it's Nintendo we are talking about after all. Especially since you pretty much have no proof.
Nothing you said so far has been a proper proof that Nintendo count tour as a main title. It's just speculation and stuff that fits into your own logic.
For crying out loud, they are going to release the Yoshi's Island race course, this is completely based on the Yoshi's Island game.
Does that make Yoshi's Island a mainline Mario Kart game? According to your logic, it should right?
@DaniPooo Their own info graphic featuring the numbered entries was proof that Mario Kart Tour is MK9, that's one factor in why I'm certain.
To strengthen my case for the Arcade games being a sub-series, the first one was made long before Mario Kart 7 on 3DS; if Nintendo counted that, then the 3DS entry would of been MK8 and following titles would be bumped up by one.
This isn't even the first time that Nintendo have publicly signified that Tour is a mainline game. They included it in the Mario Kart Timeline a couple of years ago when they had Mario 35th Anniversary website and wallpaper as a reward on their site.
https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/cb4f769f4f59b45c
You completey lost me at your Yoshi Island course example.. 😵💫 F-Zero, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and Zelda are courses in MK8, and yet I'm no way in advocating those series are mainline Mario Kart games lol. Don't spring your twisted logic onto me and call it mine.
Like it or loathe it. Mario Kart Tour is Mario Kart 9. The next game will be Mario Kart 10.
Oh, and while we're at it. Super Mario Run is still the latest mainline 2D Mario game.
@AlexanderDaniels
Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong.
I do not trust a poster that I don't know anything about.
Especially if it's not a Japanese poster.
Like I said before, unless Nintendo directly address this, for me everything is speculation.
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