It looks like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s DLC tracks could be coming from Mario Kart Tour

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Nintendo‘s free-to-play mobile title Mario Kart Tour could hint at the additional tracks planned for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe‘s upcoming DLC.

Nintendo announced on Wednesday that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be getting a Booster Course Pass, which will add 48 new courses to the game spread out over six separate waves.

According to the announcement, the courses will include remakes of classic tracks from across the Mario Kart series as well as the mobile game, Mario Kart Tour.

However, it appears that nearly all of the courses in the DLC’s first wave will be based on those designed for Mario Kart Tour.

The mobile game has regularly added its own redesigned versions of classic tracks since the game was released in 2019, and visual evidence suggests 8 Deluxe’s DLC could be using assets from Tour.

The first wave of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course tracks set to be introduced on March 18 will consist of:

Of these eight tracks, all but one is featured (or due to be featured) in the free-to-play mobile game.

Three of the DLC first wave’s tracks are original Tour creations and the first two retro tracks – Choco Mountain N64 and Toad Circuit 3DS – appear to share virtually identical geometry and similar assets to the mobile game.

Another retro track, Sky Garden GBA, is set to be added to Tour as part of a new content drop starting on February 23, and its promotional image is very similar to that of the Mario Kart 8 DLC version.

Although the seventh track, Coconut Mall Wii, has yet to feature in Mario Kart Tour, a datamine last year showed that content related to it already exists within the game’s files, suggesting that it’s likely to be added in the future.

Only the final track from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s first DLC wave, Shroom Ridge DS, has not