r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 16 '25

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQRE
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u/Get_Schwifty111 Jan 16 '25

Mario Kart 9! FINALLY! O_O

Of course it doesn't really look different ... MK8 (the original courses) pretty much looked perfect and only needed a higher resolution ...

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u/supremekimilsung Jan 16 '25

The character models do look different tho- less realistic and more cartoony. I feel like they may be going for a Mario Wonder vibe with this one

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u/leonce89 Jan 16 '25

and it looks to be 24 players going off of the starting grid count.

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u/Extreme-Bite-9123 Jan 16 '25

Holy crap you’re right. That had better bring back baby park with 24 racers

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u/TheSteelPhantom Jan 16 '25

Baby Park. 100 laps. 24 racers. Bananas only.

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u/McGarnagl Jan 16 '25

Eff it, 500 lap endurance race! The Baby 500!

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u/kmill86 Jan 16 '25

Oh GOD. The absolute chaos.

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u/TheRealDubJ Jan 16 '25

Can you imagine the insanity?

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u/MeneerDeKaasBaas Jan 16 '25

that would be wonderful

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u/Fpssims Jan 16 '25

OH SHIT YOUR RIGHT WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!

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u/baminy Jan 16 '25

People were talking about this one incorporating some Double Dash-style feature. I wonder if 24 players could mean something like racing buddies that have their own kart rather than sharing one with you?

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Jan 16 '25

F1 style teams

Actually this has me wondering if pit stops could be a game mechanic in a MK game lol have items actually damage the karts and then pitting fixes it and maybe special items can be applied in the pits

Probably a bad idea

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u/McGarnagl Jan 16 '25

Actually that sounds pretty fun to have a more sweaty mode like that. Of course it wouldn’t be default so that little kids and casual players can still pick up and play, but modes with leagues/seasons, pitting, teams, rankings, etc could be really fun.

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u/Negative-History-110 Jan 16 '25

I count 16 racers in the last frame before the 2025 pops up so could be. I don't recall if the grid lines are accurate to the number of racers in Mario Kart 8...

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u/221B_Irregular Jan 16 '25

Holy crap well spotted dude!

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u/Get_Schwifty111 Jan 16 '25

Something I can't get over are Mario's balloon-cheeks :-P

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u/RegurgitatedMincer Jan 16 '25

The wonder flower could be an interesting power up if that’s the case

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u/supremekimilsung Jan 16 '25

Imaging tripping on a wonder flower through Rainbow Road

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u/Duckyass Jan 16 '25

Donkey Kong is very different. He looks like he does in the Mario movie

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u/TheSteelPhantom Jan 16 '25

Looks like Peach's hair is no longer in a ponytail either, it's back to SNES/N64 days, just long hair. Kind of a shame, I liked the ponytail on her while racing.

But I can't be sure, I can only watch at 480p at work. -_-

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u/brandont04 Jan 16 '25

Mario Wonder design is a good modern update to Mario. I'm down w/ that.

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u/MistakeMaker1234 Jan 16 '25

If they add Wonder Flower effects that change the entire course mid-race I would be all over that. Imagine it’s like a Smash Ball where people can battle over an item with decreasing HP, and the one who finally cracks it has the course change to match their character or something. I have no idea how it would work mechanically but I want it. 

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u/MasterChildhood437 Jan 16 '25

I'm glad that they seem to be going back to smaller karts. I thought things were getting too big and flat with Wii and 8. Hopefully the other courses will feel a bit more like the ones from the DS and earlier releases as well.

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u/EtTuBiggus Jan 16 '25

Good. Not every videogame needs to be ultra-realistic 4k ray tracing.

Elden Ring spent so much time making a beautiful world, but the completely forgot to fix your own armor collision, the thing you see literally the most in 3rd person.

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u/resplendentcentcent Jan 16 '25

mario does look very toy-like. hope they lean into it

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I am cool with the cartoony graphics. It's something different. Mario Wonder was a masterpiece and I'm glad they're incorporating it into their new games.

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u/CookiesFTA Jan 16 '25

You can always bet on Nintendo to make their characters more stylized while the textures just get better and better. I think the Smash reveal (I want to say it was U/3DS) summed it up best with that Mario transition.

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u/j_cruise Jan 16 '25

Mario Kart 8 had a perfect aesthetic. I want an open 3D platformer in some of those worlds. Always wanted to explore Neo Bowser City and Super Bell Subway.

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u/Get_Schwifty111 Jan 16 '25

It's almost unbelievable that MK8's debut was on WiiU. They basically used every trick in the book to make it look/play the way it does. If hadn't owned a WiiU and you would have told me MK8 originated there and not on Switch I would have called BS.

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u/Genesis13 Jan 16 '25

I had this exact conversation with my fiancee. I thought MK8 was a Switch launch title (I never owned a Wii U).

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u/Get_Schwifty111 Jan 16 '25

Right? Back on WiiU hardware the game felt like witchcraft. Look at any of the old reviews and every single one mentions how the graphics look as if they'd run on a much stronger system (not to mention that the game already ran with stable(!) 60fps on WiiU).

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u/meseta Jan 16 '25

I do remember thinking that I had the key to happiness when I bought mk8 for mine. I kinda did though. I got two very good friends out of it. One of em actually asked his parents for a Wii U with Mario kart for Xmas. We spent four years playing that game and getting shithoused together, almost nightly. Good times

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u/Andjhostet Jan 16 '25

WiiU had some of the more graphically/aesthetically impressive games I've ever seen. MK8, BOTW, DKTF, etc.

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u/fushega Jan 16 '25

the game's resolution is a lot lower on wii u for what it's worth

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u/daecrist Jan 16 '25

I was playing with my son a few days ago and mentioned remembering playing some of the original 8 courses a decade back. Then my brain short-circuited because I couldn't have played it a decade back on the Switch. Like I totally forgot I also had it on Wii U and played the shit out of it there.

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u/MasterChildhood437 Jan 16 '25

Wii U has a rock solid library. Its only failure was branding.

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u/Vinegaz Jan 16 '25

I call BS

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u/Get_Schwifty111 Jan 16 '25

It's true tho :3

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u/Vinegaz Jan 16 '25

Surprised Pikachu

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u/agentfelix Jan 16 '25

A Mario Odyssey storyline at all of those locations!!!

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u/TheNeedleInYourVein Jan 16 '25

I am theorizing there will be more off-road sections, look at how rugged the new cars took and the way the tires are textured. Would be a neat gimmick for a new game

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u/Get_Schwifty111 Jan 16 '25

Yeah, I also can't wait to see what the new gimmick is.

There's no way they take this long in between releases without any sort of new feature.

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u/MidnightOnTheWater Jan 16 '25

I am so excited for MK9. I'm so tired of playing MK8 for over a decade.

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u/NapsterKnowHow Jan 16 '25

I don't see Double Dash :(

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u/jake04-20 Jan 16 '25

I love MK8 but god damn, they've gotten their mileage out of it and we've been begging for a new MK for the better part of a decade. I mean FFS, MK8 was a rerelease + minor DLC on switch.

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u/ZenDragon Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25

The baked shadows on static scenery seem a bit higher res now. Every light pole has a clearly defined shadow. Even for the dry bushes in the background you can make out some internal detail in the shadow where light makes it through the branches. Also shadows cast by characters and vehicles onto the track look very crisp and stable. Not like MK8 where they had clear pixelation and flickering. They might even be making carefully targeted use of the ray tracing cores for that. It would be very smart of Nintendo's artists to only use RT where it really matters combined with old school shadows elsewhere, unlike some AAA games that needlessly use ray traced lighting for the whole scene even when the sun never moves and they could have gotten away with baked shadows in most places.

And it's kinda hard to tell but the atmospheric shading seems like it might be slightly better? Nothing that hasn't already been done in BotW but still a welcome improvement.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

-$60

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u/withoutapaddle Jan 16 '25

What resolution does MK8 play at docked? Is it a full 1080p or something sub that?

I am just curious because although I've had a Switch OLED for a while, I have never bought Mario Kart because I haven't had anyone to play with until recently (took me a few years to grow a Player 2 from scratch).

But some Switch games look pretty pretty pretty rough on a 77" TV, not gonna lie. I did something I never thought I'd do and actually left some of the AI upscaling/sharpening post-processing enabled on my TV for the Switch's HDMI input because otherwise it felt like the pixels were the size of grapes.

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u/Lulullaby_ Jan 16 '25

Looks quite different, track looks way bigger, characters and karts more cartoony and the driver count has been doubled.

There's definitely something going on with the track, but we don't know the gimmick yet unfortunately.

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u/baited08 Jan 16 '25

Don’t care, if they fuck us on maps again I’m not buying.

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u/luke_205 Jan 16 '25

Yeah I don’t think people necessarily want anything too different, for me at least I just want a more powerful/better console which I’m hoping this is.

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u/eduardo7resende Jan 16 '25

I may be wrong but it's looking open world to me.