Today, May 29, 2026, marks the 12th anniversary of Mario Kart 8 (Wii U) and the 6th anniversary of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Nintendo Switch)!
What are your memories with MK8 and XCDE? I’m curious?
A human being is born every day yet you want us to celebrate video game port?
>>739789392>6th anniversary of Xenoblade 1 DE >0 (zero) Xenoblade soundtracks on Nintendo Music >Update day falls perfectly on the anni of 1 DE>Perfect timing>…..PikminYet more proof that Nintendo absolutely hates Xenoblade despite it being one of their first party series
Has it really been 12 fking years since MK8? Time flies so fast, what the hell
>>739789392in the same timeframe, we got mario kart 64, double dash, mkwii, and the handheld games...
>>739791496Mario Kart World just took that long to develop And in that stopgap time we got 8 Deluxe and Tour at least
>>739790707as they should, they fucking suck
>>739790707there's obviously some kind of legal issues with the xenoblade soundtracks. On the topic of pikmin, it's the most overshilled nintendo IP because miyamoto is obsessed with pushing it for some reason. It'll die the moment he retires
>>739792162I have poured hundreds of hours into each Xenoblade and I have never touched Pikmin or Splatoon or Animal Crossing so Nintendo’s bias hurts me
>>739792546it's fine you don't have to wait 10 years for a new xenoblade game with each successive title being more and more dumbed down
>>739792731I could argue that 2 and 3 are already dumbed down from 1 and X with less gameplay mechanics….
>>739793167>2 and 3>less gameplay mechanics than 1objectively false. X has more mechanics but most of them are bullshit field related stuff
>>739789392Time for Fiora in Mario Kart 8!
>>739793212I mean in the equipment/arts area do gameplay, 1 and X’s detailed gear/equipment system (and their fashion gear features) and 8-art palette got simplified into the more boring accessory system and at most 3 arts tied to the controller buttons (yes I know 3 technically gives you 6 arts but you will always be using them as fusion arts so it still boils down to 3 arts)
>>739793379> 1 and X’s detailed gear/equipment systemand far less party building mechanics>8-art palette got simplified into the more boring accessory system and at most 3 arts tied to the controller buttons (yes I know 3 technically gives you 6 arts but you will always be using them as fusion arts so it still boils down to 3 arts)XC2 has 9 arts per character + 4 blade arts, XC3 gives you 36 arts + 6 talent arts with character switching
>>739793379>es I know 3 technically gives you 6 arts but you will always be using them as fusion arts so it still boils down to 3 artsscrubhttps://xenoblade.fandom.com/wiki/Shackle_Ring
>>739792162>legal issues with the xenoblade soundtracksNot Xenoblade 1 (and the DE versions); all Xenoblade 1 music with the sole exceptions of Beyond the Sky and the Acoustic Arrange are owned by Nintendo so they really should be on the music app by now
>>739794312XBX ost is owned by sony music.
>>739794419No it isn’t; for all OG X tracks the phonographic copyrights are held by Nintendo and Monolith Soft while the composition copyrights are held by Sawano and Legendoor
Monolith posted their tweet for the XC1 DE anniversary btw
>>739789743I remember being very impressed with MK8's graphics. It's a hell of a leap going straight to HD from MKWii, and Nintendo didn't waste a single pixel of it. Their textures and lighting were very clean and made it competitive with the then-new Xbox One and PS4's games, and the aesthetic was just lovely to look at.
>>739789392Xenoblade is such shit.
>>739796751MK8 was graphically great, but in hindsight I feel like it’s realistic artstyle fit Mario less than the current one they later adopted with Tour/BCP/World
http://vgmdb.net/album/2374Also Pikmin 1 on Nintendo Music is just this pre-existing album but with the variations of Ai no Uta removed for copyright reasons; there’s no reason at all why they can’t just do the same with Xenoblade 1 and add all the tracks except Beyond the Sky
It’s hard to believe that Mario Kart 8 is 12 years old now…..does that make it a retro game now?
>>739800594Yes. Everything which is older than Switch is retro now.
