Anyone know if you can play 5 players with 2 switches? For example:

- (NS 1) 4 Players + (NS 2) 1 player
Or
- (NS 1) 3 Players + (NS 2) 2 Players

I got Switch Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with free Switch MK8 Deluxe puzzle cube this morning launch day at Target where I work. Total was $55.32 after my employee and Red card discounts.

I had original Wii U MK8 before I sold it. I forgot how much fun it is and how amazing the graphics still Are! My new cat was mesmerized by the fast 3D driving on the winding tracks! Best Mario Kart so far. I like instant load cartridge format and now I can have MK8 Deluxe on the go.

How can Mario Kart 9 be better on Switch?

ok...cool, thanks!

No worries, and I'm not sure what it's like coming from the Cartridge but load times from the internal storage really are not worth talking about, the first stage loads up in a little bit over 10 seconds, then after each race into the next is around 5-7 seconds I would wager.

So greatful they went with Solid state memory rather than something like UMDs couldn't live with psp loading again.

Got my copy at GameStop! About to start!

Surprisingly the few races I played worked for me about the same as they do on Wii U. This is both good and bad, good because my aforementioned internet issue worries seem non-existent atm, but bad because there's no noticeable improvement over Wii U considering we'll be paying to play soon.

And yeah, I bet they could have sold the game for $30 and still made money off it, but they know we'd all buy it at $60. :L

That is a question Nintendo will surely answer!

Also your cat is not alone, I went into MKTV just to fully appreciate how clean the game looks now running at 1080p!

I'll be honest and say I didn't look at the price when I clicked purchase last night on the eshop, was just like GIVE ME NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Think the fun I had with it today multiplayer has paid the cost of entry tbh. playing with my Nephew 2 of us on the Switch vs the world. Great fun.

I've yet to finish a GP and not end it first... but to be fair that just includes one at 200cc which I was still first... but didn't triple star, just been enjoying seeing all the GPs in 50cc mode so now I've got all of them triple stared, just jumped into a few random 100/150cc GPs and had no real issues triple staring them either, I have to say... it feels slightly strange that all of the GP's and categories were open from the start, I would have rathered a gating system to give me a reason to have played the 50cc cups... but I guess I got a ton of coins doing it and unlocked a load of the car bodies and such, weird seeing the mercedes stuff in a Mario Kart game.

258KM driven so far since launch. feeling as I move along there is going to be some GPs that'll give issues with 100%'ing it for a while, but yeah, such a wealth of content considering I hadn't touched the WiiU game I couldn't be happier with this launch as someone who is experiencing the whole package as a new game.

Really hope they start to salage other software from the WiiU now to fill in the gaps in the upcoming months, or ya know... virtual console would rock, even just a sniff of news about it for classics from the megadrive again.

Considering starting a petitiion to port Mario 3d World... but I think if Nintendo have any love of money they'll be doing that in the next few months or at least years.

Edit - Second GP in a row now I've gotten "mario partied" on the last race of a GP basically chain red shelled from first in the last race to cost any stars on the thing, forgot how much of a waste of time feeling that was with MK games, hasn't changed in MK8D sadly. Should be some form of AI limit that they wont chain attacks for the entire field of racers as they pass you. (was going to put imo, but that's not an opinion, there just should be)

I now own two physical Switch games and I'm already regretting getting MK8 physical media. I passed on playing BreathOfTheWild in favor of youtube videos earlier because I would have to get up and swap out the cartridge, but I know I'm gonna want to play MK8 later. First world problems I guess.

Yeah I learned this from the Vita days, I have a ton of games on the Vita, as in card format, but the cards for that system are really thin and feel very fragile so I ended up actually rebuying a lot of them from psn and buying a 64GB card (over €100) just to have the convience of having the games on the machine without messing about.

Switch I feel is going to be very much a digital system for me for the most part unless I encounter really cheap copies of games like Bomberman used or so, otherwise will just be eshopping it up, I've been won over by the ease of access to digital games, on a portable anyways.

This is from a person who has over 200 GC games and around the same X360 Physical copies too. Love me a boxed copy, but also love being lazy :D