mario kart 8

Totaka's Song is a classic Nintendo easter egg that appears in games sound director/composer Kazumi Totaka has worked on for the last 25 years.  He also provides the voice for Yoshi, so in this case, he's singing his own tune!  Check out other games the song has appeared in here:

Nintendo won't release mobile versions of their games, but we do get an official application for Mario Kart that will let you share gameplay footage and screenshots, and access rankings:

Our policy is to establish consumer relationships based on accounts named Nintendo Network IDs, which are abbreviated as NNIDs," Iwata said. "This 'Mario Kart TV' (temp.) web service is available even for players without NNIDs, but by logging into the service with an NNID, they will be able to easily find their rankings, videos that their friends have shared, videos of tournaments in which they have participated, and it will be convenient to access this service through smart devices even when they are not at home.

Mario Kart 8 has now sold more than 1 million total units in the United States alone, becoming the second Wii U game to cross that milestone, along with New Super Mario Bros. U (1.69 million). Mario Kart 8 continues to drive momentum for the Wii U platform. Through the first seven months of 2014, total sales of Wii U hardware and software have increased by nearly 60 percent and more than 135 percent, respectively, over the same period in 2013.

And a version where Luigi wins!

In case you missed the first one, or just want to watch it again for some reason, click here.

The OST of Mario Kart 8, the hoenn remake's .... will have de OST of Super Smash bros. trumpets too? Is very probable because ¡2014 is the year of the trumpets!

In an interview with Bloomberg, Reggie Fils-Aime stated that pre-orders of Smash have surpassed those for Mario Kart 8, and that "The launch of Mario Kart 8 has essentially doubled our Wii U sales year-on-year. Our expectation is that the sell-through for Smash is going to be very strong, certainly on par with what we saw with Mario Kart 8. We think the impact on hardware will be similarly dramatic."


Meanwhile, Sony has sold 8 million PS4s, Microsoft has moved 3 million Xbox Ones, and Nintendo has sold 2 million Wii Us this year. We'll see what happens after the holiday season.

Mario Kart 8 has sold over two million copies, and Wii U sales are up. President Iwata is still on the mend, and has been re-elected as president.