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StarTopic Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass |ST| Doubled Dash!! [WAVE 6 AVAILABLE NOW]

What is your favorite course in Wave 6?

  • Rome Avanti

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • DK Mountain

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • Daisy Circuit

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Piranha Plant Cove

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • Madrid Drive

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Rosalina's Ice World

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • SNES Bowser Castle 3

    Votes: 11 22.9%

  • Wii Rainbow Road

    Votes: 18 37.5%
  • Total voters
    48
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The third spotlight released in North America today! We only have one more left. Time for the breaking point. We're either getting the Wave 6 trailer next week or patterns will be broken. We'll see!
 
If we get a trailer it'll likely be tomorrow morning, that's of course assuming we get the spotlight tonight.
 
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Magic-Man said:
The final spotlight should be releasing today, so we're either looking at a trailer today/tomorrow or the patterns will be busted.
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You all have probably done a lot more research on the matter, and I definitely expect it to be probably before mid-November, though I'm not exactly sure of the pattern you're referring to.
wave 5's trailer dropped the same day
wave 4's trailer dropped the day after
wave 3's trailer dropped 10 days after
wave 2's trailer dropped like 3 weeks after
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This doesn't really spell any patterns out to me, and while the gap between the final spotlight and the next DLC trailer was getting shorter and shorter, and I'm not saying it can't be today, they could very well do it, this thing could very well be another 3 weeks out, no?
It makes sense for them to stop fully promoting the previous wave to move on to the next, so it's definitely a sign that it should be soon, but the dates as to when we will see it are inconsistent and don't really form a pattern that would break if nothing ends up being today, tomorrow, or next week. Considering we also got our "news for the week" already, being Mario Party 3 on NSO.

I will say, though, that MP3 is the shortest time gap between a release date reveal to release for an expansion pack NSO game this year, so that's pretty strange for them to do, though that's probably due to them focusing all of the marketing on Wonder.
 
There’s the final spotlight. Guess we’re looking at the trailer by the end of next week.

If it’s not though, then we’re probably waiting until late November or early December. Doubt they release wave 6 the same week as Mario RPG or during Thanksgiving week.
 
I think the trailer could be tomorrow for a November 8th release date. A 2 week wait after the trailer like Wave 3 and fits into the week between WarioWare and Mario RPG.
 
WaveRelease DateClosest First Party ReleaseRelease Date
1March 18, 2022Kirby and the Forgotten LandMarch 25, 2022
2August 4, 2022Xenoblade Chronicles 3July 29, 2022
3December 7, 2022Pokemon Scarlet/VioletNovember 18, 2022
4March 8, 2023Bayonetta OriginsMarch 17, 2023
5July 12, 2023Pikmin 4July 21, 2023

So we have never seen a new wave released the same week as a retail first party release. So basically we are either getting it the week of 11/07 or it is a December release, because I highly doubt Nintendo will drop wave 6 the week of Thanksgiving.
 
I want Dino Dino Jungle. Both are good, but I want my cursed monstrocity, the Brachioceratops, to return.

Also random note, but yeah, I really don't like the real world City stages, they are all way worse for me. And are a unreadable mess a lot of the times, compared to how simple and readable the regular stages are. I hope they do not bring back any of them in the future, heh
 
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Cerlinho said:
Ok guys!
Dino Dino Jungle vs. DK Mountain!!
Which will be chosen?
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DK Mountain is what I’m hoping for, even if the Tour version is pretty weak in comparison to the DD!! original (please revert the bridge changes). It also feels more likely in that it was remade specifically for Tour, around the same time the BCP was in development (rather than being mostly ported from 3DS assets like Dino Dino Jungle was). And come one, they’re not going to add two Kongs in this wave and not give us a DK themed track to go with them right? ignores the two Piranha Plant tracks that were not released alongside Petey
 
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Cerlinho said:
Ok guys!
Dino Dino Jungle vs. DK Mountain!!
Which will be chosen?
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I want Dino Dino since DK Mountain would imo feel kinda redundant since we already have DK Summit and that's basically the same thing.

But with two Kongs+Pauline being in wave 6, I'm expecting DK Mountain to tie in with the overall Donkey Kong theming.
 
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It’ll be DK Mountain. Much more popular track, keeps the Wii emphasis going, and it aligns with the characters being added.
 
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i honestly doubt thanksgiving even factors for a digital-only release like this. it's only a major holiday in one country in a single region and most of the infrastructure for the game is handled offshore anyway so it's not like you need that much support staff on hand for its launch.

there's plenty of reasons why retail releases would avoid thanksgiving that just don't matter here
 
Boyfriend said:
it's only a major holiday in one country in a single region
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Kinda underselling how important that single region is to Nintendo. It affects a pretty substantial portion of their user base.

I could maybe see a Tuesday night release, but I’d be surprised if we get anything at all that week.
 
Thunder84 said:
Kinda underselling how important that single region is to Nintendo. It affects a pretty substantial portion of their user base.

I could maybe see a Tuesday night release, but I’d be surprised if we get anything at all that week.
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i'm not underselling anything, i'm just pointing out that the things that would usually scare them off from releasing on a major holiday don't really factor in for this. there's no need to press any carts and flood retail chains prior to release for this specific situation and if anything with the combo pack being sold this holiday it only makes more sense to have it out prior to black friday so that the full thing is available when it's part of the major sales. there's no need to pay significant overtime for any support staff either since most of the infrastructure for this is offshore, the product is pretty mature and the holiday only affects one region.

thanksgiving would scare them off of releasing MK8 for the first time, but probably not MK8DBCPW6 as a downloadable package.
 
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Pillydillsy said:
So when are we getting that juicy wave 6 trailer? People have been hyping it up for today but the trailer never came
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It was supposed to be out yesterday if the pattern held. And well with the final DLC they didn't follow the pattern. No one knows when it could drop. Probably on a Thursday though.
 
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Pillydillsy said:
So when are we getting that juicy wave 6 trailer? People have been hyping it up for today but the trailer never came
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They've doubled up on stuff before, but next week is Wario which probably needs all the help it can get so I think that week is out. Following one is empty so maybe then? Week after is Mario RPG which seems like a good week to avoid as well.
 
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If there’s no trailer next week, very good chance we’re waiting for a while. They’ve always been at least a week before release, and as Josh laid out earlier, there isn’t really a gap to release it until December unless we get it the week after Wario.

I think we will get it then, but I dunno.
 
Thunder84 said:
If there’s no trailer next week, very good chance we’re waiting for a while. They’ve always been at least a week before release, and as Josh laid out earlier, there isn’t really a gap to release it until December unless we get it the week after Wario.

I think we will get it then, but I dunno.
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A potential possibility I’ve been considering is trailer after Wario week and release in the middle of Thanksgiving week ahead of Black Friday. Seems like a plausible way to make the most of it. A December release could be strategic too to keep people thinking about Mario all the way up to Christmas, but I’m guessing we won’t have to wait that long.
 
Wario is such a weird game that dealing dlc for a different game proabaly won’t harm it much, they haven’t doen it before iirc but I could see them putting Mario kart dlc in wario week.

Ironically wario might be the Nintendo ip that is the least similar to Mario out of everything they have.

Imo it really doesn’t matter when they put it out at this point as long as it’s not during Mario rpg week.

It’s not like one day will get more sales than another

And player count doesn’t matter since they’ve already all played, if it’s a holiday they can play tommrow or smth. They’ll just slot it in wherever
 
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The Wave 2 trailer dropped the same week Xenoblade 3 launched last year so they've undercut a relatively smaller release before, wouldn't be any different for Wario.
 
MondoMega said:
The Wave 2 trailer dropped the same week Xenoblade 3 launched last year so they've undercut a relatively smaller release before, wouldn't be any different for Wario.
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Wario, I can see them not caring much about. But Fashion Dreamer??


(This is a joke yes)
 
Cerlinho said:
Between these tracks, are you more excited for:

Piranha Plant Cove or Piranha Pipeline?

Madrid Drive or Rome Avanti?
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Kinda cheating, but:
Piranha Plant Cove for the aesthetics, Piranha Plant Pipeline for the music
Madrid Drive for the variety of music (Normal, Stadium, and Museum!), and Rome Avanti for the tricky layout and cool obstacles.
 
Cerlinho said:
Between these tracks, are you more excited for:

Piranha Plant Cove or Piranha Pipeline?

Madrid Drive or Rome Avanti?
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I want to see if they actually do some F-Zero X/GX tube stuff with Piranha Plant Pipeline, if not, Piranha Plant Cove is a track I'll probably like more. Maybe they'd do it to give the cobwebs on the upper part of the pipe purpose beyond aesthetics, found it weird that there's only a few in the way.
Rome Avanti seems like a cooler track personally, I like when the city tracks are a bit more fantastical.
 
Cerlinho said:
Between these tracks, are you more excited for:

Piranha Plant Cove or Piranha Pipeline?

Madrid Drive or Rome Avanti?
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I love water tracks so Piranha Plant Cove for sure for question 1. From the moment it debuted I thought it looked super rad so I've been eagerly anticipating it. I'm not sure if I've seen too much gameplay of either Madrid or Rome (to the extent if I did I forgot it) so I'm not really sure which one to be more excited for walking in, though I guess racing through the colosseum sounds potentially cool.
 
Cerlinho said:
Between these tracks, are you more excited for:

Piranha Plant Cove or Piranha Pipeline?

Madrid Drive or Rome Avanti?
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Piranha Plant Cove's a lot more varied and interesting in Tour than Pipeline, eh-ing towards Madrid for the latter, at least if they include the kuribo shoe goombas on the soccer field because that was a pretty funny visual.
 
Once the wave drops, that’s basically it for new Mario Kart content until the next game right? If so, wow, what a year and a half it’s been for Mario Karts fans!
 
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