Mario Kart (Wii) Official Nintendo mag speculates on online

EDIT: Sorry folks

Update: A statement released by Official Nintendo Magazine reads:

The details printed in Official Nintendo Magazine 21 regarding Mario Kart Wii were healthy speculation on our part and are in no way an official announcement from Nintendo.

"We are sorry if we have mislead anyone. We do not set out to mislead our readers. ONM apologises profusely for any misunderstandings that this has caused.Update ends

Original story: As Reggie told a crowd of journalists at E3 earlier this year to "wait and see" how many players would be on the course at once in the new game, a trailer behind him clearly showed 12 karts lined up on the starting grid, as NGamer rightly pointed out in this huge preview.

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The latest ONM sheds some light on what we can expect from the latest entry of the series, including the online side of things...

The latest edition of ONM reveals some information concerning the latest Mario Kart title, which is heading to the Wii early next year. When it was first announced, it was also claimed that the game would feature online Wi-Fi play, like it's predecessor - which launched Wi-Fi for the DS, including those friend codes...

ONM have stated that the popular battle section of the game would in fact feature 16 online player battles so people can duke it out to see who is number one. Players will also be able to pull stunts in mid-air, though it is not yet known if it will help game-play in a specific way, for instance avoiding those pesky blue shells.

And if you thought that wasn't enough, all the tracks that are available on the DS version of the title will also be available in the game, as well as brand new tracks. Gamers will be spoilt for choice. Not much else is known about the online mode at the moment, though we're clinging on to the hope that the friend codes might somehow be alleviated...

Here's hoping the DS tracks will be spruced up a bitbefore being included in the Wii game.

I second that on the DS tracks. I just hope they don't port tracks like they did with the retro-tracks on the DS.

But other than that, I think Mario Kart Wii can be even bigger than Super Smash Bros. Brawl all because of the online play. This could well be the Wii's most successful game. I know if I had it, I'd never put the controller...um, excuse me...Wii-mote, down. :P

As for what I want personally is lots of tracks, original ones, not just recycled or mirrored. The game should feel like a whole complete game with plenty of original tracks. And any recycled tracks should just be the cherry on top of the cake, not the icing. The icing should be more original tracks.

ONM sucks, NOM was much better in my opinion.but thats not the point

even if it was true i dont think the wii would be able to handle 16 players online racing, for other racing games maybe but MK? no way. the place would pretty much be a colourful warzone :lol: but more impotantly think of the number of people getting that blue shell? the first person will be bullied until he is in last place.

and then the snakers... i wouldnt mind 16 players but i think they would need to tone the game down abit to make it playable.

even if it was true i dont think the wii would be able to handle 16 players online racing, for other racing games maybe reyad-u

Why not? MOH2: Heroes has a 32 player online mode on Wii and on PSP. Mario Kart 16 player would be mayhem, but really fun.

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even if it was true i dont think the wii would be able to handle 16 players online racing, for other racing games maybe gaminggeek

Why not? MOH2: Heroes has a 32 player online mode on Wii and on PSP. Mario Kart 16 player would be mayhem, but really fun.

It's probably that they said that reporting it as solid facts, Nintendo contacted them saying they shouldn't have given away the information, they pretended it was speculation.

Something like that.

SuperMooseman

I'm not really worried about the online model for Mario Kart, because outside of snaking (which really was just a general game design matter than anything else), it worked well enough for what I wanted to do, and Nintendo has shown some degree of forward momentum regarding their online models in the case of something like Mario Strikers.

Arrgh. Why does Nintendo still seem so hesitant to bring their games online?

Anyway I sure hope Mario Kart for the Wii does include online because that would be awesome. So many of Nintendo's games are just screaming for incredible online fun.

Arrgh. Why does Nintendo still seem so hesitant to bring their games online?

Anyway I sure hope Mario Kart for the Wii does include online because that would be awesome. So many of Nintendo's games are just screaming for incredible online fun.

Archangel3371

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Arrgh. Why does Nintendo still seem so hesitant to bring their games online?

Anyway I sure hope Mario Kart for the Wii does include online because that would be awesome. So many of Nintendo's games are just screaming for incredible online fun.

Skylock00

Ah that is very good to hear. Teh interwebs, they can be so confusing. :P

Yeah 12 player online seems to ring a familiar tone for me like I've heard it somewhere before.