So why isn't MK8 Deluxe a launch title, exactly?

So why isn't MK8 Deluxe a launch title, exactly?

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Nintendo spacing out releases.

I don't understand why the ports with extra content aren't the launch lineup but yeah spacing out releases may be the point

Why is there STILL no fucking Diddy Kong?

Why is it so hard to add characters? This ain't fucking Smash balancing, everyone just falls into three weight classes and that's it.

To avoid droughts.

They'll probably add Diddy as DLC.

because """"Henry"""" said it was impossible

Zelda will leech sales away from everything for a month. By the time it dies down, MK8 will show up, by the time MK8 dies down, Splatoon 2 shows up, etc. etc.

I'm no expert on this shit, but what's the point of spacing out releases when your console is launching without enough games to be worth buying? Wouldn't it be better to make sure people actually want to buy the console by getting the best launch lineup possible?

FUCK YOU HENRY

This. At least with MK8, there'd be long enough replay content to keep fans occupied til the next big game comes out.

that would be true 5 years ago but they need to keep up with the PS4 joneses of having a 'new release' to be talked about every month.

I don't really care for Zelda. Because of this, I'm forced to wait a month because I don't want to drink the "suchanerdxD" series kool-aid?

There's like 12 weight classes in MK7 and each character has individual stats for weight, speed, acceleration etc actually

Unlikely, but it's possible that they didn't show every character yet. Fuck them if they didn't add him though

Nintendo believes that Zelda will be the Switch's killer app, despite also being available on the Wii U (but who owns a Wii U etc.)

The especially jarring part is that at one point, the director apologized for the base roster:

polygon.com/2014/5/27/5754590/mario-kart-future-rosters-super-smash-bros

Three of those four characters he cited (Dry Bones, King Boo and Bowser Jr.) made it into the port and it's odd that they wouldn't mention Diddy with everyone else.

>Because of this, I'm forced-

No.

Haha

The system will be supply constrained for months. It's better to space titles and keep up momentum.

Yes.

I have to wait a month for something I want to play because they want to make sure all the hipsters and gamur gurrrrls get their zeldas.

If it launched with this and Skyrim, it would satisfy all the casuals. Now everyone bought it but no one will know what to play on it. Hype will die fast.

I assume its probably because they are worried that Mario Kart will be overshadowed by Zelda? People will probably be busy with Zelda for a month anyways.

because as if their launch lineup isnt obvious enough, nintendo simply cannot make games meeting their high standards in any timely manner compared to other companies.

They need until the END of the console's launch year to make ONE new Mario game. Their launch killer app is available on their previous console, Splatoon looks like an enhanced port too

MK8D is the same shit, they even did stupid crap like splitting the villagers and inklings into two slots each to give you the illusion that tons of new characters were added.

AND YOU HAVE TO PAY TO PLAY ONLINE

ARE THEY JOKING

You don't HAVE to wait. You could hold some schoolchildren hostage with a pistol and demand to get Mario Kart or whatever early, like the edgy faggot you are.

This.

I'm one of the, like, 8 people who get to skip buying a Switch at launch because I can get the Wii U version. They aren't going to pad their launch roster to nab 8 more sales when everybody will be buying it anyway.

>Splatoon looks like an enhanced port too
I was happy to see it's a sequel but after the gameplay they showed off it does just look more like an enhanced port.

The paid online is comically jewish (especially the """free"" fucking NES game) but I don't actually play anything online outside of splatoon, so if I end up getting that i'll just be bored of it before paid online comes out anyway.

Looks to be Wii U 2: Electric Boogaloo. It's pretty sad really, I only ever even bought a wii u because I got it for essentially free.

Quick google search tells me it's five classes in MK7.
Apparently it's seven in MK8.

Still, it's not fucking rocket science to figure out where Diddy would belong in weight.

It doesn't matter.
Launch titles don't sell consoles anymore.
They're doing the smart thing and giving it that Nintendo polish instead of rushing it.

>"""Henry"""

>Splatoon looks like an enhanced port
So laurakbuzz was right all along?

You forgot Birdo.

TJ """"HENRY"""" YOSHI

It's officially a sequel but so far what they've shown just says "enhanced" port except now you have to tap a button to look at the map

>8 people

Cmon, there are at least dozens of us. I'll get a switch next year and zelda at release.

Can't have too many games at release, user. After all, Nintendo is only capable of making one game every two years.

I'm another one. We just need 6 more and that'll prove him wrong!

I mean the male and female Villagers do have slightly different stats, so I can give them a pass for splitting them up. I'm assuming the Inklings are the same.
Plus the way it's organized now puts all the Koopalings on one row, which is neater imo

wut

You can't set it on the main screen anymore like the Wii U and EVERY OTHER MARIO KART did?

Talking about splatoon you dunce.

the screenshot I saw did not line up the koopalings, it put bowser jr next to dry bones who was next to bowser. makes no sense, the koopalings are a whole row down

No. Here's another source:

nintendolife.com/news/2014/05/interview_mario_kart_8_director_kosuke_yabuki_on_key_features_of_the_wii_us_blockbuster_release

He specifically namedrops "Bowser Jr., Dry Bones, King Boo and Diddy Kong"

The only shot for Diddy I see now hinges on the Miis not being in the game.

Bowser Jr. isn't a koopaling

why are the koopalings grouped in with him in Smash then

because they needed 8 skins and him+7 koopalings fit

A Mario Kart game is a Mario Kart game, you can't just say it's Deluxe!

he's a koopaling

>Diddy
>Birdo

literally who cares. The roster is fine. MK8 already had more characters than any previous Mario Kart game that they were digging at the bottom of the barrel before they just started putting in characters from non-Mario games.

I just wonder if they'll release MK8D with more race tracks at launch or in later DLC.

The orange one is shooped right?

Right?

>digging at the bottom of the barrel
But they weren't. They still had characters like E.Gadd that they could've used and that's without mentioning that Mario Kart Wii had Funky from Donkey Kong Country.
They even planned for Kamek/Magikoopa to be playable at one point.
I'm not as mad as others since my main came back, but I understand the disappointment.

no user, they definitely put some autist's OC in Mario Kart

It's 99% sure it's because the severs would not be working day one