Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 1 review – still on track
The first ever DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has finally been released but are the new tracks up to the same quality as the old ones?
It’s been a long, strange, incredibly successful, ride for Mario Kart 8 – and it’s far from over yet. Originally released as a Wii U game in 2014, the initial version of Mario Kart 8 was almost identical to the eventual Switch re-release, but because almost no-one bought the Wii U relatively few people ever got to play it. That has not been the fate of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which almost since release has been the best-selling Nintendo Switch game, with a staggering 43 million copies sold.
If it were any other company, the ongoing success of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe would have seen it drowned in a sea of DLC, season passes, and costly expansions, from the moment it came out. But this is Nintendo and while they have plenty of anti-consumer practices of their own their embrace of live service games has never been a warm one. For years people have wondered why they don’t just make more tracks for the game, but no one really expected that they would. Until they did. Sort of.
The Deluxe in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe refers to the fact that it includes the DLC released for the original Wii U version (and a few other improvements, like a better Battle mode). These 16 tracks were half brand new courses and half reimagined versions of ones from earlier games. However, there are no entirely new tracks in the Booster Course Pass, which are all solely based on existing games – even if a lot of them have never been seen on a console before.
The Booster Course Pass includes 48 tracks, effectively doubling the total number in the game. It doesn’t do so instantly though, as they’re being released in six waves of eight each,
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