168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart Tour is still less than six months old, but the amount of reskinned characters suggests Nintendo is already ru🌱nning out of ideas.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart is the ultimate spinoff series. First introduced via Super Mario Kart on the SNES, there has been any number of sequels to what has become the most iconic racing game of all time. Today's most played installments consist of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, and Mario Kart Tour on iOS and Android.
Tour was criticized by players at launch for its use of microtransactions and gacha rates. Players seemed to get over that very quickly as the mobile game was played by more people in its first week than had played the Switch alternative since it was released. However, Nintendo appears to have hit a stumbling block when it comes to characters. Not only on Tour but across the whole Mario Kart franchise.
There's only so much Nintendo can do with a racing game nearing its 30th anniversary while keeping the same roster of characters. That element of the game has had a big old spotlight shone on it by the need to add new characters to Tour every two weeks. Nintendo seems to have quickly run out of ideas and is simply adding reskinned veꩵrsions of ⛄already playable characters.
This has quickly gotten out of hand to the point that there are now 11 playable versions of Mario across Tour and Deluxe. Regular Mario, Baby, Tanooki, Classic, Metal, Gold, Ice, Musician, Hakima, Santa, and Happi.ꦜ There are also nine different versions 👍of Peach across both games and basically multiple versions of almost every character who has driven a kart in any of the franchise's games.
All signs point to Nintendo finally needing to bite the bullet and make Mario Kart the racing version of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Smash Bros. It has already started to add characters from other franchises, such as the Inklings and Link, why not go all in and get Sonic and Snake involved too? With the return of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Team Racing to the landscape, Nintendo might need to alter its vision for Mario Kart to keep it fresh.