Awesome for us Mario Kart Tour holdouts.
The internet’s a funny place. For years there was wailing and gnashing of teeth as the mobile-only Mario Kart Tour got all-new tracks and much-loved classics — “bring that content to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!”, we demanded. Then the Booster Course Pack is announced and lots of (probably the same) people said “What!? You’re using Mario Kart Tour content? Ugh, that’s so lazy”.
Well, that’s one set of perspectives your humble scribe has seen and the personal response has been a shrug of the shoulders. So what if Nintendo is re-using content from a mobile game? If it has been optimised to run at 60fps and look shiny on Switch, then that’s marvellous. Sure, it’s an easy-win approach, but it’s also 48 tracks across nearly two years, doubling the number of courses in the game. And also, we’re not all avid Mario Kart Tour players, either.
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