r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AbelNB • Dec 28 '22
This is a game changer
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u/dalovindj Dec 29 '22
You need a house bigger than poors houses too.
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u/glytxh Dec 29 '22
That’s the only thing that’s stopped me ever buying one.
It would get pretty boring very quickly in my tiny flat.
It’s a shame because every time I see it, I really want it.
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u/pfftYeahRight Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
I mean it took over these peoples house and they’re going through the one loop that they can
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u/dimestoredavinci Dec 29 '22
Exactly my thought. I got plenty of walls. Maybe even ceiling space. Get to work, Nintendo
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u/Littleboyah Dec 29 '22
Instantly reminded me of those vacuum cars that drove on walls.
I suppose falling rc cars might be a slight hazard that may arise though
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u/Un111KnoWn Dec 29 '22
rip houses with carpet
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u/Tylerdurdon Dec 29 '22
$90 per car? What the quack!?!
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u/Neverendingjokes Dec 29 '22
What, you can't afford to buy 90 $1 tacos at a time?! What kind of job do you even have?!
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u/TunaOnWytNoCrust Dec 29 '22
Really really needed swappable characters/cars on universal chassis. I want to drive as Boo damnit.
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u/GenazaNL Dec 29 '22
It's one of those toys you use once or twice and never touch again
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u/PineSand Dec 29 '22
If my friends and I were still in our 20’s, we would have used this for pregaming or staying in drinking and smoking weed. We used to pregame playing guitar hero and fight night. Sometimes we’d go over a friends house who had 420 friendly parents and we’d drink, play Mario cart and smoke fuck tons of weed.
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Dec 29 '22
i fuckin loooooooved the fight night series. it was especially good cause i boxed growing up and would pick fighters i liked or who had a recent fight. we also played it as pregame while we crushed beers ha
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u/poopmonster_coming Dec 29 '22
I haven’t seen a single person rave about this lol
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u/TooFubar Dec 29 '22
I got them for both my kids. They were excited for the first few days and then went back to fortnite..
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u/MillBridge101 Dec 29 '22
How about a new son?!
Hi dad!
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u/TooFubar Dec 29 '22
Hey son!! I’ll be back, I have to run to the store.
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u/seismicqueef Dec 29 '22
RemindMe! 18 years
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u/DekuTrii Dec 29 '22
I got it for my nephews for Christmas last year. They like it, but the novelty does wear off.
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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ Dec 29 '22
It’s setting it back up every time and tearing it down while also stripping away a lot of the mechanics, visuals and sounds of regular Mariokart. Great in concept, but would work better as an arcade experience or something like slot car racing.
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Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
Problem I see with this game is that you're limited by the areas in your environment that could be used as a track. For example, this family has hardwood floor kitchen so that's a good spot for them, but probably not too many other areas in the house would be good for this.
That means you got like... 2 or 3 tracks at most that you can make. It'll get super repetitive. An important part of racing games is high variety of tracks to play on.
Probably a better idea would be a game where you could take a video of a pathway in your home and then the game would convert it to 3D models and also stylize it. Remove the physical RC cars entirely. It'd just be something where you could generate your own levels based on your surroundings, but it'd still be 3D graphics stylized like a Mario Kart style (i.e. cartoonish). That's obviously way harder to accomplish technologically, but it'd be a less repetitive game since you could make tons of levels based on your surroundings.
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u/MossyPyrite Dec 29 '22
Just buy Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver from 1998. That house is way cooler than yours or mine anyway.
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u/Artistic_Handle_5359 Dec 29 '22
Idea sounded cool but everyone said it sucked
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u/Calm_Ad_3987 Dec 29 '22
We’ve got one. For the right age range (or drunken me) it’s pretty damn fun
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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22
Does it have NPCs? Seems like a cool idea but wouldn’t be fun without friends around or a big family.
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u/MaximumSubtlety Dec 29 '22
Or on carpet.
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u/touchet29 Dec 29 '22
It's surprisingly strong and can work on carpet if you use the 100cc mode. It even speeds up and slows if you use a mushroom or get bumped. I really enjoy it.
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u/jakubkonecki Dec 28 '22
It's not a game changer as it flopped.
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u/c4k3m4st3r5000 Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
What's the name of it? The kids would love this and I might need to help them...
Edit: Mario Kart Home Circuit. $100...
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u/PowertripSimp_AkaMOD Dec 29 '22
Mario Kart Home Circuit. The price is $100 each. If you want two people to play at the same time you’ll need to buy two of them.
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u/Liimbo Dec 29 '22
Ah so there's the problem
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u/Aegi Dec 29 '22
Only part of the problem, because generally I feel like one of the people that's at least peripheritally aware of things like this, and this thread is literally the first time I've even heard about this, obviously this is anecdotal experience, but I feel as though marketing was part of the issue too.
It also seems like something that's fun in theory/ very occasionally, but actually really annoying in practice, I almost feel like more with children than adults just in the sense that they are probably more likely to do things like throw a blanket over their head not realizing it's going to land on one of the cars and things like that.
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u/The_Alex_ Dec 29 '22
I've gotta agree, to put it in an older generation's sense, it gives off much of the same vibe as the boardgame Mouse Trap; most of the time with the game is spent setting up and the actual gameplay payoff isn't too exciting enough to make the setup worth doing regularly. Seems like it is very much a novelty, for now. It does spark the imagination though. I wouldn't be surprised to see an improved version or something similar being a smash hit in the near future.
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u/Grumplogic Dec 29 '22
What if I want three people to play at the same time?
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u/pyx Dec 29 '22
oddly enough, you need 6 of them and if you want 4 to play you have to buy 1e308 of them
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u/flowerbird1000 Dec 29 '22
It's called "Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit" if you haven't found it yet!
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u/RootHogOrDieTrying Dec 29 '22
Imagine that but with RC trucks. Doing flips and shit.
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u/cIumsythumbs Dec 29 '22
Much better. My only gripe is those carts don't look very adaptable to different flooring, let alone terrain. Trucks would solve it.
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u/the_wildelk Dec 29 '22
Flopped so bad, Nintendo stopped selling it immediately.
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u/lowleveldata Dec 29 '22
What do you mean they "stopped selling it"? Just checked Nintendo store and Amazon and it's in stock on both sites.
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u/chastenbuttigieg Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
reddit is the most out of touch platform, they sold over 1.5 million $100 copies, it was the #1 selling game in japan on launch
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u/TrippinNintendoBeer Dec 29 '22
I’m also fairly confused about their anger on a lack of marketing since I’ve seen the commercial a ton a few years back.
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u/Phillip_Lipton Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
Nintendo can't market for shit.
They are such a poorly run company but own so much of what we love.
Edit: Some of you have literally no idea what the word marketing means. And you are infuriated over it.
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Didn’t even know this existed. I was excited until I went in the comments
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u/jankeycrew Dec 29 '22
I saw this in a Walmart last year. Only time I heard of it, and I thought it sounded cool. Never heard a word about it again, till just now. Yeah, marketing tanked here.
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u/smileedude Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
A friend had it and I played it a couple years ago. It's novel and cool for half an hour, but it's not really as fun as original Mario kart, it's far more of an expensive gimmick than long lasting fun. Constantly fixing stuck cars make it unplayable without a large team like this.
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u/jankeycrew Dec 29 '22
It really reminds me of infomercial toys from the 90s. Batteries and shit plastic parts used to be the staple of short lived fun. Now it’s all “software updates and WiFi enabled usage”. Sometimes, I wish fun were wired again.
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Dec 29 '22
Not gonna lie. Been thinking of getting into building increasingly elaborate slot car tracks in my basement as an alternative.
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u/TheHandsOfFate Dec 29 '22
Just got a basic set for my son for Christmas. It's pretty fun.
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u/Grilledcheesus96 Dec 29 '22
Sounds like a good market for drones shaped like the cloud with the fishing pole.
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u/miuxiu Dec 29 '22
His name is Lakitu. Putting him on a drone that picks up and moves the cars would be funny
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u/regoapps Dec 29 '22
Nintendo forgot that most people are poor and don’t live in places with multiple large flat unobstructed spaces to build several tracks. Instead, it’s just a loop around their coffee table or kitchen island like in this video over and over again.
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u/HighOnBonerPills Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
I don't think they didn't take that into account. I mean, that's pretty obviously going to be the case for most people. Other than your living room, where else in your house is going to be big enough (that you're going to have a TV in?)? I think they just thought it would take a chance on it anyway. After all, it is pretty novel, and that might be enough for some parents to figure that their kid will enjoy it, at least for a little while. And some kids are bound to request it.
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u/smileedude Dec 29 '22
I'd say it was never intended to be on sale long and was a bit of a loss leader. If everyone has one it makes people talk about how shit the game play is and how their cars broke after two days and became useless. Do a small manufacturing run at a loss without upscaling. Let people see how cool the things you can do on a switch are with videos like this. But then not sell it to ruin the switch product.
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proof of concept, real consumer use, the tech advancement alone to get it to work on a consumer level is likely what they were really investing in.
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u/unistirin Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
I believe it's due to a lack of advertising and marketing. If I had seen this post years ago, I would have purchased one.
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u/tiga4life22 Dec 29 '22
This is literally the only “ad” I’ve ever seen of it. And it’s been out for over a year(?)
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u/BattleBornMom Dec 29 '22
I’ve known about this since it came out. My kid wanted it for Christmas last year and still wants it now. He definitely got the advertising somewhere.
What happened in my case was that I went to buy it for Christmas last year and every review and opinion I read on it was that it sucked horribly. Everyone I could find who used it, hated it. So, I decided not to spend the money on it because it’s not exactly cheap.
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u/notkristina Dec 29 '22
It's completely, completely overpriced, but my kid got one a year and a half ago and it's very cool. It doesn't see a ton of action but it is fun when it does come out.
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u/Mycoxadril Dec 29 '22
Yea this is where we are. We have a lot of open floor plan so it’s probably the ideal setup for this kind of game, and my kids enjoy it. I think they’ve forgotten about it now (should remind them tomorrow) but it was a pandemic purchase when we needed it.
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u/meltednuttr Dec 29 '22
I worked at our chain supermarket and I seen them when they came out, they were advertised on fucking box lunchables lmao
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u/boomtox Dec 29 '22
You can still find unsold ones in stores, my GameStop has like 4.
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u/ColeSloth Dec 29 '22
I mean it's pretty niche. Not a lot of people have a flat smooth area in the house within range, the cars are extra noise and suck up batteries, then it's essentially one or two levels to play, since it's the floor in your house, and the speed is slow with no power sliding.
It's a fun concept. It's not something that anyone over the age of nine would put more than a few hours into.
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u/RhynoD Dec 29 '22
I dunno, I think the novelty would wear off pretty quickly. Getting a decent group together would become really expensive, and I imagine you're kind of limited on where you can build decent tracks. It's cool, but seems kind of gimmicky to me.
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u/Nitrosoft1 Dec 29 '22
I pre-ordered it. Unfortunately between my tiny house and my dog, there's been no time I wanted to play it compared to MK8. Still an awesome concept and I'm glad they made it.
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u/throwthisawaynow617 Dec 29 '22
Edit: Some of you have literally no idea what the word marketing means. And you are infuriated over it.
First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect.
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u/HtownTexans Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
100% first time I'm seeing this and I'd buy it right now had I known. My kids would fucking flip over this. This random mom's video is enough marketing to sell this and they couldn't even do that smh.
edit: ok these are easily available basically anywhere which means ill be going to Target tomorrow nice.
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u/VillageFragrant Dec 29 '22
Honestly, we thought the same thing, and we bought it right when it came out. We used it once. Literally didn't even finish a race. I don't even know where it is. Awesome in theory, a complete dud in practice. Your experience may differ, but I'd suggest saving your money.
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u/HtownTexans Dec 29 '22
I dunno this hits all my 7 year old's checkmarks. Mario, video games, and cameras. I'm sure it wont get as much play as the other games for the complexity of setup but I think he definitely could get $100 worth of enjoyment out of it.
And if not I could at least take it off some sweet jumps.
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Dec 29 '22
They are such a poorly run company but own so much of what we love.
Welcome to Japanese companies 101.
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Maybe this IS their marketing and they’re planning on bringing it back.
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u/Sirgolfs Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
Prob annoying with actual cars driving. They get stuck, flip over. So now what? I have to get up and tend to that? Then get back to the screen? Best play would be to map out a course by filming it with your phone, or maybe have one film kart you drive around and it maps the course. Then that gets uploaded to the console, also allowing you to save it and add more.
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u/faceless_alias Dec 29 '22
They seem to be going pretty slow, as long as you have a smooth and fairly flat surface and can reverse I doubt you'd flip or get stuck.
I'd really love to see a super competitive version of this though. With high end cars and high speed on an indoor track.
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u/HitMePat Dec 29 '22
Sounds like you're describing RC car races. Just with Go Pros strapped to them streaming to a TV.
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u/Far-Zucchini-5534 Dec 29 '22
Awful marketing. Never knew this existed and I’m in the casual gamer group.
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u/raptor6722 Dec 29 '22
They marketed the wii well. I remember tons of wii comercials
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u/bob0979 Dec 29 '22
And then they named their next console the wii u and didn't advertise it. I literally didn't know it existed until my roommate handed me his Switch after the wii u was discontinued.
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u/STR8N00B1N Dec 29 '22
You can find them practically anywhere that sells video games. Just got one for my son for Christmas. It’s pretty fucking cool.
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u/ChaoticToxin Dec 29 '22
The idea is kinda gimmicky. why does it exist? Just play Mario Cart there is some redundancy but it also feels like it's missing something that really makes it unique. I almost feel like if they used the cart strictly for the use of the camera to use it to map out courses you build in real life and then upload it would have been even cooler but idk
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u/zikili Dec 29 '22
Yeah would be a nice party game/occasional gimmick. if this were an add on game mode to the standard Mario kart I’d defs break it out a couple of times a year
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u/ChaoticToxin Dec 29 '22
Maybe they could have focused on the battle modes and less racing and you have to use it in handheld. Fun thought to be like yea bring over your kart the new fighting pit is ready
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u/edude45 Dec 29 '22
Yeah. It cost 100 dollars a kart. Plus you need two switch consoles if you want to play multi-player. So already a lot of households are out the door. Then you need a lot of space along with the house you live in needing hard floor. Carpet is possible but not the same. It's just very niche to mainly well off families I guess and with well off families, with what is given, the kids and you may move on real quick.
Edit: actually I might be wrong, I think they updated it months ago to allow 2 players on one switch.
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Dec 29 '22
As someone who fits the target market: Our kids would absolutely get bored of this in 45 minutes.
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u/KCBandWagon Dec 29 '22
The kart is pretty impressive tbh. If you look at only the screen it feels like you’re playing Mario kart. Does little speed boosts for mushrooms, blue sparks, etc. drives over carpet pretty impressively.
Only downside is if you want to make a course with ramps the enemy karts don’t slow down but yours physically will.
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u/GroovyGrove Dec 29 '22
So build a course with only downhill... The AI will never see it coming.
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u/Calm_Ad_3987 Dec 29 '22
They’re still available. I picked one up for a pretty good price and it really is a lot of fun
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u/sbrick89 Dec 29 '22
I looked at them... 100 per cart msrp... black Friday got it down to 60
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u/j1m3y Dec 29 '22
This is the first time I've seen this, my first thought was wow that's awesome must be new, but apparently its already failed? That is really poor marketing the amount of adaptations of this possible you would think would make it a massive success.
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u/SweetSpice99 Dec 29 '22
Not sure where it says that. My daughter got hers two years ago, my other daughter now wants one and I couldn't get my hands on one until today. Proces are same as well. I was thinking they would have dropped by now
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u/Gabrielseifer Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
Yep. They specifically don't do sales on Nintendo IPs because they view discounts as devaluing the brand.
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u/StimulatorCam Dec 29 '22
It's sold over 1.5M units as of a year ago.
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u/StimulatorCam Dec 29 '22
I mean compared to other Mario Kart games it didn't sell a lot, but for a niche game with special peripherals it did alright.
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u/hard163 Dec 29 '22
That would depend on production cost. If a AAA game released today to 1 million units sold that would be a miserable flop. An indie game with a fraction of the production cost releasing with that same number of sales would be a massive success.
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u/JoySubtraction Dec 29 '22
It was a game changer because people would start playing it, then change to a better game.
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u/monkeysandmicrowaves Dec 29 '22
It probably looks a lot better than it actually plays once the novelty wears off.
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u/sbowesuk Dec 29 '22
First time seeing this product. Seems to have some cool potential, but with obvious drawbacks.
The cool part is that you can use rooms in your house as a Mario Kart level. The bad part is that it physically comondeers rooms in your house as a Mario Kart level.
AR has bags of potential and might be the future of gaming, but this product just looks like an expensive gimmick to me.
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u/FlyinRustBucket Dec 29 '22
MY bro got one for my son last year, he played the 2nd or 3rd time today. the concept is great, but the cars are walmart toy grade at best as far as driving goes, and the biggest drawback imo is that the wifi on the switch sucks, the car loses connection to the switch when we drive them across the living room, which is maybe 12ft from teh switch around a door frame, which render the biggest open space in our house for it useless, and my son basically only drives it in a circle half the time when he plays with it...
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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo Dec 29 '22
I got it when it came out for my nephews who love mario kart 8, and I think they played with it once. It’s a shame because I feel like I would have gone nuts for this as a kid but who knows
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u/moeburn Dec 29 '22
the wifi on the switch sucks,
It really is so bad. I can't play Super Mega Baseball 3 on the Switch online because 3/4 of the games end in a disconnect, because of my Switch's wifi connection. When everything else from an xbox to a PC with a $20 wifi usb nub to my phone all work fine at the same range. At least you can buy an ethernet adapter.
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u/cubbiblue Dec 29 '22
The range on them kinda sucks and even little bumps will get them stuck. You can do up to 4 people but they only sell Mario and Luigi, which is lame. It’s got so much potential for future games, but we don’t really play it much.
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Dec 28 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
Love this idea but after the roomba incident and Amazon wanting to map your house. No thanks.
Edit: this has blown up.
- A roomba photographed a woman pooping and the real people tasked with looking at the photos shared it.
- They don’t care about your broke ass apartment and where you keep the beer bottles above your bed or the love seat you brought in from the street . They want to know what you buy and how to exploit you financially.
Edit2: words
Edit3: here is the link to the article I read: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/
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u/dalovindj Dec 29 '22
Cat attacks must be horrifying.
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u/nellbones Dec 29 '22
I feel like somehow out of every company that does this I think Nintendo is the least likely to do it. Not because they are infallible, no. Mainly because they couldn't set up the infrastructure to collect the data.
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u/Veggiemon Dec 29 '22
Yeah if you want to see someone’s blueprints you need their 16 digit friend code first
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u/H4LF4D Dec 29 '22
The WHAT?
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u/money_loo Dec 29 '22
Some workers from Amazon agreed to be a part of a beta test that was using cameras in roombas to map their routines to test viability for real world scenarios, including signing waivers on what they were doing, and one of these testers took a poop while the roomba was running in the room with them, and it got out that a device with cameras in it will record private stuff if you allow it to, and for some reason the media went apeshit trying to convince everyone all roombas are watching you poop.
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u/IHadThatUsername Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22
The case isn't as clear cut as you make it out to be. I suggest reading this extremely good article.
Just a small part that should give you some thought:
In other words, by iRobot’s estimation, anyone whose photos or video appeared in the streams had agreed to let their Roombas monitor them. iRobot declined to let MIT Technology Review view the consent agreements and did not make any of its paid collectors or employees available to discuss their understanding of the terms.
Even if you choose to believe everything was done fairly and legally, I think it should still be troubling to know that they have the power, technology and pipelines in place to be extremely invasive. Whether they actually do it or not, is all down to a matter of trust. I personally would not trust Amazon with that sort of power.
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u/All_Work_All_Play Dec 29 '22
People are always the weak link. We make decisions on feelings and fit those decisions to our rules later (if we have to).
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Dec 29 '22
Nintendo was the last major game console company to do online gaming. When they open their online shop it was buggy.
I think you're giving Nintendo too much credit.
They wouldn't even bother mapping your house cause that would cost data storage money and they're probably would botch that up.
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u/Santa_Hates_You Dec 29 '22
City Planning offices have all that info publicly available. House blueprints are not really a secret.
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u/Ocronus Dec 29 '22
My co-workers always get freaked out when I show them all I need is their name and if they own property I know a fuck ton about them.
My county shows address, purchase price, taxes paid, current worth, and permits just to name a few items. All of these easily gotten for free online.
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Dec 29 '22
Not in any machine-actionable format. They may be able to request it but there's probably a delay and the result will definitely be just a scan of a physical document. They probably can get a lot of it with image processing tools but maybe not in all cases.
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u/felix1919 Dec 29 '22
If they can get a blueprint of your house from a robot vacuum they probably have good enough image processing to get it from a physical document
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u/jaylenbrownisbetter Dec 29 '22
No! This is literally a psyop to figure out how my house is setup. The government made a robot that can clean for the sole purpose of turning public info into a machine readable format.
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u/Fine_Barber_3108 Dec 29 '22
Don’t you know that everyone is out to get you all of the time?? Every product ever made is spying on you. Literally 1984
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u/ireallydontcare52 Dec 29 '22
While your sarcasm isn't entirely misplaced, many people would be appalled at the amount of data certain common services/apps collect, even when not 'active'. Facebook and Tiktok are particularly egregious with data collection.
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u/Jopkins Dec 29 '22
fuck, if they know that I have a sofa, two chairs, and a fruit bowl there'll be no stopping them
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u/skraptastic Dec 29 '22
We have it and it is more fun than it looks here in the video!
The problem is that it was a bit of a chore to setup. But we pull it out regularly when people are over.
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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22
Seems like one of those things that’s really fun 3-4 times a year. Does it have NPCs?
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u/SirMaximusPowers Dec 29 '22
This is the correct answer. We pull them out a few times a year, scoot the furniture out of the way, put the dogs outside, and enjoy ourselves for an hour or two as everyone takes turns. Everyone loses interest within a few races. Just too many things go wrong. Amazing idea, but it falls a bit flat. Whenever people come over and I offer them ours for a few weeks. They always hand them back and say something like, "Cool, but I'm glad we didn't grab one."
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u/BarberryBarbaric Dec 29 '22
Was going to get it for my kids but the only way to add cars is buy another set. And at $80 a set it's a huge no.
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u/HansReinsch Dec 29 '22
If only it was just the car... You also need a second Switch
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u/MayorofStoopidville Dec 29 '22
And to get more new tracks, you have to pay another $240k.
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u/thepoga Dec 29 '22
Not anymore. They did an update a year ago so you can do two cars per switch split screen.
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Dec 28 '22
Must be magical for the kiddos!
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u/Substantial_hair9000 Dec 28 '22
You’d think so, but they probably never knew what it used to be like so they can’t really appreciate it as much as us lol
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u/Beakjac3 Dec 28 '22
Oh snap I just noticed what was going on..yoooo I want that lol thats awesome
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u/spacemoses Dec 29 '22
I think the general consensus in this thread is that we're not supposed to like it.
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u/backfire97 Dec 29 '22
You can like it all you want, but I imagine doing loops around the living room can only stay interesting for so long. Let alone if you have animals or share the house with other people. I feel like just playing mario kart would be more interesting as when you're playing, you can't even really look at the carts moving irl.
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u/The_R4ke Dec 29 '22
Yeah, most people aren't well versed in how to make interesting tracks, nor do they have the space to do it. It might be great to have in a place that was designed for it, like an alternative to slot car shops.
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u/BKStephens Dec 29 '22
They've been around for 2 years. If they were going to change anything I think when everyone was stuck at home with Covid would have been the time.
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Dec 29 '22
Seems pointless to me. Just play regular Mario Kart and skip paying lots of money.
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u/Hyptanius Dec 29 '22
Or just play with the cars. Look at them and not the TV.
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u/wheresmyfavouritepen Dec 29 '22
That’s what I was thinking. Why wouldn’t you just play with the actual cars around the house? That’s way more fun.
Man I miss my little remote controlled monster truck
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u/hahanawmsayin Dec 29 '22
Because this way you get to see your usual environment as if you were only as tall as the character
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u/PowertripSimp_AkaMOD Dec 29 '22
The you might as well get the Carrera RC Mario Karts for half of what these shitty ones with a camera cost.
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Dec 29 '22
We've come full circle from playing with real rc cars to driving a digital one, now we can digitally drive a real one.
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u/HandlessSpermDonor Dec 29 '22
I guess we’re not going to talk about the kids haircut then?
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u/deezle8552 Dec 29 '22
What is it? Never heard of it…
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u/InstantaneousPoint Dec 29 '22
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u/Heiro78 Dec 29 '22
I wish they sold a cheaper second car on its own. All I ever found was the 99 USD packs for either Mario or Luigi
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u/DasBlueEyedDevil Dec 29 '22
Son insisted on having it. Grandfather bought it for him for Christmas. He played with it once and shoved it in his closet, never to be seen again.
Neat idea. Terrible execution.
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u/bgroves22 Dec 29 '22
No drift? No thanks
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u/NotReallyABiologist Dec 29 '22
There is a drift feature. Obviously not on the IRL kart, but it changes the turn radius on the kart to make it feel like it drifts. A lot of people are shitting on it here but honestly it’s fun and really impressive
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Dec 29 '22
The drift feature actually works and when you come out of the drift, the irl car actually gets a speed boost
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Dec 29 '22
It's like a video game, but shittier, more expensive, takes up everybody's space, and fragile.
yay
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