Mario Kart 8 Deluxe joins the list of games that have received a free update for the Nintendo Switch 2, which is quite incredible in a number of ways. Most importantly, it comes with a big new feature: local split screen support for up to eight players, instead of just four.
You want a really big TV for this one, because it will be hard to see where you're going in any case. But I have been in the situation multiple times where we had a group of more than four players. The only way to play together locally would have been to set up a second TV and a second Nintendo Switch... So, this new solution is certainly a lot more convenient, which adds another selling point over Mario Kart World.
It's a simple scenario: you want to play together with five people in the same room. Do you take turns, so you can play Mario Kart World, or do you simply play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which also happens to have three times as many courses? The answer seems clear.
And this is what makes this update so remarkable. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best selling Nintendo Switch game by a long shot, with 71.5 million copies as of today, and the most extensive Mario Kart game in existence. Upgrading it to 4k resolutions and with a local eight-player-mode may even be a reason to finally buy into a Nintendo Switch 2 for a number of people. However, this is fierce competition for the new game, Mario Kart World.
They've also added the CameraPlay feature from Mario Kart World to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with this one. Though, I don't know of any people who actually use this... With Nintendo I'm usually okay with sharing some of my data, but being filmed by a camera while playing goes too far with the privacy intrusions. A voice chat is more than enough for online play.
Anyway, Mario Kart Word is also bound to get some more free updates for the upcoming Knockout Tour Rallies. I suspect that these updates will also have some nice surprises in store, just to keep Mario Kart World interesting next to its older and beefier sibling.
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