mario kart 8

DLC Pack 2 drops on April 23, and will feature:

• 3 Characters: Villager, Isabelle, Dry Bowser
• 4 Vehicles: Bone Rattler (Bike), City Tripper (Bike), Streetle (Kart), P-Wing (Kart)
• 8 Courses: Animal Crossing, Big Blue, Super Bell Subway, Wild Woods, Baby Park (GCN), Cheese Land (GBA), Koopa City (3DS), Ribbon Road (GBA)

Here's a side by side comparison of Nintendo's newly announced 200 cc Mario Kart class, coming to a Wii U near you for free on April 23.  They weren't kidding when they said you'd need your brakes!  And hey, maybe you'll finally be able to take some of those nigh impossible shortcuts with ease.

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:

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.

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.

November's MK8 DLC will add Yoshi's Circuit, The Master Cycle, Cat Peach, Tanooki Mario, the Tanooki Buggy, the B Dasher and more yet to be seen content.

Mario Kart 8 Pack 1 - Released: November 2014

Pack 1 includes:

3 Characters: Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach, Link
4 Vehicles
8 Courses

Mario Kart 8 Pack 2 - Released: May 2015

Pack 2 includes:

3 Characters: Villager, Isabelle, Dry Bowser
4 Vehicles
8 Courses

As a bonus for purchasing both packs - as a bundle or separately - you can get eight different-coloured Yoshis and eight different-coloured Shy Guys that can be used right away.

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.