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When is mario kart 8 coming out for 3ds

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Jessica Burns

Updated on March 16, 2026

By Steve Watts on March 18, 2022 at 9:24AM PDT Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling game on Nintendo Switch, and after five years of racing rings around every other Switch game on the market,…

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The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass is set to release in a few separate rounds. Nintendo has confirmed that the first wave will drop on March 18, 2022.

The official release date for wave one of tracks coming to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Booster Course Pass DLC is Friday, March 18th, 2022.

While we’re at it, we’ll get a Smash Bros. 5 announcement at E3, since we’ll now be seeing once-per-gen titles go multi-release. Maybe they need to this gen. Nintendo fans have already shown they only want Mario titles and Zelda and hate everything else. And “multirelease” just sounds wrong.

Released on March 18th, 2022, the Wave 1 tracks list for Mario Kart 8 are: Golden Dash Cup Paris Promenade (Mario Kart Tour) Toad Circuit (Nintendo 3DS) Choco Mountain (Nintendo 64) Coconut Mall…

A total of 48 remastered courses from throughout the Mario Kart™ series are racing to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game as paid DLC!*. Content will release in 6 …

Updated on 18 March 2022 Mario Kart 8 came out on Wii U all the way back in 2014 and re-launched almost five years ago on Nintendo Switch. Where has that time gone? If you’ve been playing it since…

It has now been four years since the release of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is arguably just an expansion on Mario Kart 8 rather than an entirely new game. Nintendo insider Zippo (via GamingBolt) has given Mario Kart fans waiting for that coveted new title fresh hope. According to Zippo, a new Mario Kart game Nintendo devs have been working on for three …

In early February 2021 Mario Kart 8 officially became the franchise’s best-selling entry of all time, as revealed by Nintendo’s fiscal reports. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – an enhanced version of Mario Kart 8 for the Switch, has sold a whopping 33.41 million units.

This makes sense given that the original Mario Kart 8 is eight years old. It released on the failed Wii U in 2014 but then was ported in its …

Related Questions

Is Mario Kart 8 getting a new DLC update?

Nintendo revealed during its February 2022 Direct that Mario Kart 8 will be receiving a huge DLC update with the Booster Course Pass.

When is the next Mario Kart game coming out?

Nintendo insider Zippo (via GamingBolt) has given Mario Kart fans waiting for that coveted new title fresh hope. According to Zippo, a new Mario Kart game Nintendo devs have been working on for three years will be here by early 2022 at the latest, and possibly even in time for the 2021 holiday season.

Does Nintendo have a point when it comes to Mario Kart?

While that might get a little frustrating for developers, Nintendo fans might have a point when it comes to Mario Kart. It has now been four years since the release of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is arguably just an expansion on Mario Kart 8 rather than an entirely new game.

How many copies has Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold so far?

To start, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the Nintendo Switch’s best-selling game, by a huge margin. According to Nintendo sales data, it has sold 43 million copies as of December 31, 2021. Given that the same data says that Nintendo has sold 103 million Nintendo Switch units, that’s roughly a 40% attach rate.