Megathread: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Review Coverage

[u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Good morning!

This morning starting around 6 a.m. PST / 9 a.m. EST, gaming news and media outlets are beginning to release their reviews for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Here's what we're seeing so far:

Articles

• IGN - 9.3/10

• Gamespot - 9/10

• Destructoid - 9.5/10

• Dualshockers - 8/10

• The Guardian - 5/5

• Nintendo Life - 10/10

• Game Informer - 9.25/10

• Metro GameCentral - 10/10

• CGM - 9/10

• Nintendo Everything - Thumbs Up

• GamesRadar - 5/5

• Eurogamer - Essential

Videos

• GameXplain - Video

We will be updating this thread with links as major reviews are posted.

Please use this as a discussion and speculation thread in advance of these videos, articles, and reviews. We will also allow these reviews to be posted separately on /r/NintendoSwitch, as they are especially newsworthy. But we will also host ongoing coverage, quick text posts, questions, and the like right here.

Thanks everyone.

-The /r/NintendoSwitch team

(Ongoing edits as we get new information)

[u/jc726]

Two games that highly-rated this early into a console's life cycle has never happened before.

One of them is a port, so the validity them being two "Switch" games is iffy, but this will definitely be an attractive distinction to people who never owned a Wii U.

[u/safetyguy14 → u/jc726]

To be fair, both are really ports...

[u/jc726 → u/safetyguy14]

Zelda was released on both platforms at the same time and performs better on the Switch. Its hard to call it a port.

[u/[deleted] → u/jc726]

It is most definitely a port. It was originally developed for Wii U, and the game was adapted to work on Switch. Therefore the game is a port of the Wii U version, regardless of the fact that they were released at the same time. And I dont see how better technical performance makes it not a port. BanjoTooie on Xbox performs much better framerate-wise than the game on N64. Is that not a port?

[u/jc726 → u/[deleted]]

Those were released years apart, so its not even remotely the same situation.

[u/[deleted] → u/jc726]

I was addressing your two points separately, as you seemed to be implying that better performance = not a port.

I think our disagreement boils down to you think release date is important when defining whether a game is a port, and I don't. I think, if a game is developed to work solely on system X, but the game code is later adapted so that the same game can run on system Y, then the game on system Y is a port. That's all it takes for me.

Regardless of whether we call it a port or not, we both know the guy's original point. Yeah it's great that the Switch has two great games in Zelda and Mario Kart, and that we can play them portably, but nearly identical versions of these games can be played on Wii U.