Mario Kart 8 Coming In April 2014?

[winston000smith]

Zero999 said:

winston000smith said:
This game will likely sell me a Wii U, but is anyone else concerned about the inclusion of Bikes?

I thought MK Wii was near perfect, but did anyone else find bikes made racing unbalanced? E.G. Karts could not compete with the speed of bikes.

karts could do the curve dashes while bikes could not.

They could. However bikes could pull that cheap wheelie move which gave an insane speed advantage. What this resulted in was MK experts playing with manual drift Karts could be beaten by beginners on bikes using automatic. This spoiled the competion of the game, there became no point in using the Karts and online races reflected this - Bikes galore.

Again, a shame imo 'cos the games always been all about Karts for me and the powerslide mechanic seems like an integral part of the game.