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Nintendo Unveils New Zelda, Animal Crossing, and F-Zero DLC For Mario Kart 8!

KhanYe

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On Nintendo's Official UK Store site, Nintendo unveiled two brand new Add On Content packs for Mario Kart 8. These two packs include characters who have been long clamored for in the Mario Kart series, and finally, we have one iconic Hero of Time whom we have all been waiting for.


Da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaa! (If you're a real Zelda fan, you'll hear that as you read it.)
Each of these two new Add On Content packs will contain three new characters, two cups with four courses each, and four vehicles. The two packs contain as follows:

Mario Kart 8 Pack 1 - Released November 2014
  • Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach, Link
  • Four Vehicles
  • Eight Courses
Mario Kart 8 Pack 2 - Released May 2015
  • Villager, Isabelle, Dry Bowser
  • Four Vehicles
  • Eight Courses
Here are some pictures of the featured add-ons from these new packs!


Tanooki Mario. Too fly. Shoutout to the Luigi Death Stare in the background.


Cat Peach is going to climb up the standings! (I'll leave now.)


I don't have anything witty to say about how amazing this looks. Who needs Epona when you have a bike?


Is that.. Is that the Blue Falcon? Be still my beating heart.


They're so gosh darn cute. Dry Bowser included.
According to the description on the site, the added Cups will include stages from the worlds of Zelda, F-Zero and Animal Crossing, along with throwback stages from previous iterations of Mario Kart. If both Add On Content packs are purchased, as a bundle or separately, you will immediately be able to get eight colors of Yoshi and eight colors of Shy Guy to play with. According to the website, these packs are retailing for 7 GBP, so we can assume they'll retail for about $10-15 when they arrive in the United States.

As someone who has been questioning Nintendo's marketing since the advent of the Wii U, this is amazing fan service which should really continue to push systems off the shelves. Also, this is the most DLC I've seen Nintendo push for one of its main games, which could hint at Nintendo doing something similar for Super Smash Bros for Wii U/3DS. What do you guys think of this new DLC?

KhanYe wonders... WHERE IS CAPTAIN FALCON? You can't just throw in the Blue Falcon and not put in Captain Falcon! Come be angry with me on Twitter @ayyou9.
 
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ChikoLad

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Anyone else notice the F-Zero course in the Zelda Pack?

I seem to be the only one who's mentioned it.
 

Trigger123

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They should add more character other than reskins, but link is going to be awesome.
 

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ooooh sweet lord!

This is good stuff. I'm glad they actually do something with DLC for Mario Kart. And they give us the best stuff first. I'm curious to these new racingtracks though. Would they be retro's or brand new ones?
 
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Please make captain falcon a playable racer. If you're not going to give him the chance to star in a new f-zero, at least let him show the MK8 crew how real racers race.
 

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Just made a video about the news!


One thing that a lot of people seem to be missing is the Excitebike inspired stage in the first DLC pack!
 

Da Black Rabbit

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Nintendo, stop it. You are destroying me with this god like fan service as of late. Please, my wallet can not take this anymore.


Why can't every game's DLC be this awesome?

GAAAWD I HOPE BABY PARK IS A DLC COURSE! PLEASE BASEGOD NINTENDO, I BEG OF YOU!!
 
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EdgeTheLucas

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Link needs an Epona-themed kart or we riot.

Or just race using Epona, that'd be freaking amazing.
 
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Super Smash Kart is now a dream come true. This is hype.
 
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Farorae

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Link fits in surprisingly well into Mario Kart, except in that one pic his head looks huge but I think it's the angle. It's funny because I was thinking a few weeks back what it would be like if nintendo added other big characters to Mario Kart and I thought specifically of Link.
 

ChikoLad

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Watch as they put Mario and Peach in Hyrule Warriors as DLC.

Just watch...
 

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HOW DO YOU RUN OUT OF DIGITAL DLC PRE-ORDERS?!?!?!
 
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@ KhanYe KhanYe , you had an extra "da" in the Zelda jingle under the Link picture.

Sorry, it just bothered me.

EDIT: I just noticed he fixed it. The galaxy is at peace.
 
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Wow. This is actually really sweet! But a couple of things that don't quite compute, though. First, Dry Bowser is there, but no King Boo? Second, it's a little surprising to see 2 AC characters, but only one LoZ character.
 

Kirbybrawl

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I bet this won't have kirby or anything pokemon related like many people are talking about. If you look back at animal crossing, they didn't have kirby items or pokemon items (except the first ac had the pikachu item) and only had zelda fzero metroid Pikmin and star fox items.
 

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So, they'll add in Alt versions of Mario and Peach, add Koopalings and take out other, more loved characters like Diddy and Bowser Jr, and they're adding characters from other game universes now...done with this.
 

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Loving this! I wonder if DLC beyond that, if they have it, will have Kirby on the Warp Star as shown in the Smash Rosalina trailer.

I hope the retro Mario Kart tracks have more of SNES courses. The one already in the game looks fantastic!
 

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YO this totally fixes the problems I had with the game's lack of "good courses" and characters!

Link on a Motorcycle, can I get that in a main Zelda game pls
 

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first villager terrifies his fellow smashers,
NOW HES GOTTA FREAKIN CREEP THE LIVING HELLS OUT OF THE MARIO KART CAST!!!!!!!!!
 

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I hope we get Bowser Jr. and King Boo on future DLCs or even Captain Falcon!, with Link getting included the possibilities are endless!
 

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Wow...this is certainly the most hypeful two days. First we get video leaks for Bowser Jr, Shulk, and Ganondorf. Then we got a small trailer for Pokken Tournament. And now, ohhhh now, we have perhaps the most beautiful dlc packs ever conceived. Did I die and go to hype heaven?
 

Master Jelly

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If Skyloft and Death Mountain are courses, I don't see any free time between me playing this and Smash 4.
 
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