What ever happened to the Kart Racer subgenre?

What ever happened to the Kart Racer subgenre?

racing games suck

The audience grew up and moved on to real games lik Gran Turismo and Forza.

Mario Kart added 4 extra racers to fuck people over with items for no reason and killed the subgenre.

Same way that Guitar Hero 3 created an elitist fanbase with TTFAF, and killed that subgenre.

And how Time Crisis 3 and 4 forced alternate weapons in certain scenarios, making the game a chore, killing that subgenre.

It was dead since the N64/PSone era? Mario Kart and Sonic All Stars are the only ones left.

Sonic All Stars>Mario Kart.

It peaked.

>Plagarism:The Game.

Mario Kart 8 is fucking fantastic.

>I'm a Nintendcuck

Nintendo should just bite the bullet and just put all Nintendo characters in Mario Kart.

Agreed.

>peaked
This game is overrated as fuck.

It's been concentrated into just a few series that attempted to perfect the entry with every instalment.

The death of couch multiplayer = the death of kart racers. Apart from Mario Kart, of course.

Except "realistic" racing games have existed since the beginning of the industry. What I think you meant to say about audiences instead of they "grew up" is that they "got more shallow". Realistic driving sims are now more popular because gamers are sluts for "TEH GRAFIX" and pretty textures is all those games have going for them these days. Not to mention all the licensing and advertisement bucks.

The decline of the karting genre is also tied to the death of mascot characters. Can't really have a game about wacky go karting without a colorful cast, and people like Naughty Dog (who had two different IPs with racing games) went the route of cinematic QTE cover shooting.

Mario Kart is eternal.

Kart racers are too cheap and easy to make. Publishers demand all their studios be working on multi-million dollar open world bullshit at all times on the off chance they make a massive success. Everything is so inflated with game development now. Players have accordingly started expecting a certain amount of hours and content from their 60 game purchases. I know a lot of reddit types who proudly shout about how they dont buy anything but open world games with at least 60 hours of content or more because otherwise they arent getting their money's worth.
I'm kind of rambling but the gist of it is bad economy, kids hate cartoons and want more guns now, and inflated game budgets.

Another huge problem is graphics. In order to have 4 player splitscreen racing you have to use a lot of processing power so the graphics suffer, and that scares off casuals and publishers.

needs to be on pc

>Mario Kart 8
>200cc mode

Granted it's not designed for every course but it's fun as fuck most of the time.

>good kart racers
Mario Kart series
Sonic & Sega All-Stars series
Diddy Kong Racing
Crash Team Racing

>bad kart racers
Everything else

What about Jak X?

great game, but MK8 is a little bit better in my opinion, although they are very different approaches to the genre for sure - Sonic Racing Transformed opts for variety, with a slightly higher skill ceiling and arguably more interesting roster; but it's let down by bugs and a lack of stages.