Nintendo World selling exclusive Mario Kart 8 Limited Edition Bundle
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Mario Kart 8’s Limited Edition Bundle is coming to North America after all, albeit with a catch: it’s exclusive to Nintendo World in New York.
The store’s Twitter account just tweeted:
The race is on to score our #MK8 Limited Edition Bundle exclusive to #NintendoWorld! Pre-orders start now! pic.twitter.com/FpnvlDr1kK
— Nintendo World Store (@Nintendo_World) May 8, 2014
This seems to be the same as Europe’s Mario Kart 8 bundle. You’ll get a copy of the game as well as a blue shell figure.
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Image: Another look at Germany’s Mario Kart 8 steelbook
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Iwata on Mario Kart 8’s web app
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shared a few words about the planned web app for Mario Kart 8 during the company’s investor briefing earlier today. Read on below for his comments.
To enjoy these features even when you are not playing this game on the console, we are planning to offer a web service called “Mario Kart TV” (temp.), which also enables users to watch videos in a screen layout suitable for systems such as smart devices and computers, around the same time as the release of “Mario Kart 8.”
This is the layout for a smartphone. This web service will enable more people to easily watch Nintendo’s official videos, view rankings, watch videos that their friends have shared and videos of tournaments in which they have participated.
As I mentioned at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing in January, our policy is to establish consumer relationships based on accounts named Nintendo Network IDs, which are abbreviated as NNIDs. This “Mario Kart TV” (temp.) web service is available even for players without NNIDs, but by logging into the service with an NNID, they will be able to easily find their rankings, videos that their friends have shared, videos of tournaments in which they have participated, and it will be convenient to access this service through smart devices even when they are not at home.
We will work on providing this type of service so that players can enjoy video games more and be in contact with them even when they are not in front of a video game system.
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Image: First look at the Mario Kart 8 web app
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Nintendo World-exclusive Mario Kart 8 news coming tomorrow
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The Nintendo World store Twitter account is teasing some sort of exclusive news pertaining to Mario Kart 8. This announcement, whatever it may be, will “flip your world upside down”. Hmm…
Here’s the relevant tweet:
Stay tuned tomorrow for exclusive #NintendoWorld #MK8 news that will flip your world upside down! #OnlyNintendoWorld pic.twitter.com/BQdZor691f
— Nintendo World Store (@Nintendo_World) May 7, 2014
What might this be about?
Thanks to Brandon for the tip.
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Video: Setting up an online race in Mario Kart 8
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Mario Kart 8 web app on the way
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Update: Nikkei’s article doesn’t actually say anything about being able to watch videos. Apologies for the confusion!
Original: Nintendo has a Mario Kart 8 web app in the works, according to a report from Japanese outlet Nikkei. It’s primarily designed for smartphones and tablets.
With the app, users will be able to watch videos uploaded from Mario Kart 8. You’ll be able to check the status of friends as well.
