It looks like just an updated port of 8 to me..? Mostly because they're just racing on Yoshi's Island (which was on 8) and it looks basically identical, same UI and everything.In post 0, xRECKONERx wrote:New Mario Kart (featuring King Boo and two item slots... Double Dash 2?????)
But it has an identical UI (same track name and font, same shape and style item holder things, same placing and style of the lap and coin cointer and place, and most importantly to me an identical VS Race logo - in fact the only different UI element is the colour of the Map, which is blue in 8), an identical track, and from what I can see (although the screen is too small to fully tell) the karts seem to be the same and the character models that aren't new are the same too (at the start line, you can see Rosalina on the standard ATV with monster tires and Roy on the Pipe Frame, and then while racing you can see Mario on the B-Dasher and King Boo is on the Circuit Special - all of these are in Mario Kart 8).In post 26, xyzzy wrote:having a system where you hold 2 items at once would be a pretty massive change to include in what is just a port; it's probable that it's based on Mario Kart 8, especially because it just makes sense for Nintendo to reuse anything from the Wii U that they can, but I think it's probable that it'll be a new numbered entry.
To be honest, I'm kind of thankful - I feel that if they continued being backwards compatible, they'd have to include certain features just for the sake of including them to allow backwards compatibility - dual screen, motion controls, etc.In post 28, Zachrulez wrote:No backwards compatibility with physical media for Wii U or 3DS.
That's a bit disappointing.
In post 35, Davsto wrote:this console doesn't have dual-screen play - that is, there are two screens, but you don't use them both simultaneously anymore.
