Ready, Set, Go! Mario Kart Live is Nintendo‘s new proposal to enjoy its popular racing game. A different way of playing where augmented reality will have a great role. What’s more, it is the base next to the use of a remote control car that you will control through your Nintendo Switch. But let’s do one thing, keep reading and we will explain in detail how everything works.
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
Taking advantage of the 35th anniversary of the birth of Super Mario, Nintendo has made a very special Nintendo Direct. And it is that in it they have revealed what has always been their great asset: new games. And among all of them there is a proposal that has attracted attention above the rest due to the novelties it introduces, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit .
In this new installment of the popular racing game, the most interesting thing is that you are going to enjoy it in a completely different way than we have done so far. And it is that augmented reality will be used to offer a different experience . But before continuing to talk more about the game in question, take a look at the presentation video and then it will be easier for you to understand what it is about and why we are convinced that the little ones and not so little ones in the house will like it.
What do you think? Sold? It is likely that if you were already a fan of Mario Kart it has been easy to get excited about this new game. Even so, if you weren’t, it may also have attracted a lot of attention because of the mix it offers between real and digital games through augmented reality.
Through a camera installed in these radio control vehicles , the new Mario Kart title will capture information about the environment where the race is taking place to add virtual elements that will appear on the screen of your Nintendo Switch, with which you will logically control the car.
Thus, as you have seen in the video, you will not only have aesthetic elements with which the circuit is decorated, but also the possibility of using objects that are already a classic in Mario racing games. We refer to the star that gives you immunity for a certain period of time or the red and green shells that you can throw or your opponents will throw at you.
With regard to the shells, and also applicable to the rest of the elements that help you gain an advantage during the race, when one of them hits you, your car will stop so you can enjoy that advantage in the race that traditional games offer you.
For the rest, here you build the circuit as you want. You simply paint on the floor of the house or any place where you decide to play and place some arches that you will have to go through. So basically you will not have limits when it comes to playing as many times as you want without repeating the track.
The new MarioKart Live Home Circuit will be available from October 16, 2020 . Exact details are not known about the price at the moment, but there will be two sets that will include Mario or Luigi’s car respectively and are expected to have a price of 60 dollars / euros each. Hopefully the experience is like the one in the video.
Nintendo Direct 35th anniversary special
Along with this MarioKart Live: Home Circuit the company of the great N has presented new players who will arrive at Nitendo Switch. So let’s do a quick review so you can know all the news.
- There will be Super Mario All-Stars , a collection of 4 Super Mario games for Super Nintendo that will be available to subscribers of the Nintendo Switch online service
- Super Mario 3D World + Browser’s Fury , version of the game that will incorporate an online multiplayer mode and more functions that will be revealed as the release date approaches, which will be February 12, 2021
- Super Mario 3D All Stars will arrive on September 18 and will include three major titles. Among them Super Mario Galaxy, one of the best Marios for many. Of course, the second installment of that title will not be there, they will reserve it for later
- Super Mario Bros 35 will be available on October 1 and is a collection of competitive Mario games that you can play online
These are the important releases, although there was also time for other related news such as the change of season in Animal Crossing New Horizons and the Super Mario-inspired furniture that will arrive, the new Amiibo of Mario Felino and Peach Felina, the original game from Game & Watch from Super Mario Bros as well as a festival that will take place in January within Splatoon 2 that will also be inspired by the 35th anniversary of Super Mario.
And all this will not be the only thing, as they have commented until March 2021 there will be many more news that will be counting. So it seems that Nintendo is preparing for the arrival of the next generation of Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles with what they do best: games.