• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world
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      Because if you don’t want to play that “boring racing game” there wasn’t a reason to buy a switch 2. Almost every launch title was an upgrade of a switch 1 title, or was available on something else. Mario Kart World was the unique game until Bananza came out

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      You overestimate LoZ’s popularity and underestimate Mario Kart’s. Not even those two particular entries, but in general. And I say that despite being a sucker for both the LoZ series and the less conventional BotW/TotK.

      BotW sold a lot for a Zelda game and even then it sold a lot less than Mario Kart 8 DX (despite it being a port of an older game).

      My take though? I got the bundle mostly because I expected better from MK World. It’s not a complete dud, but I would agree it’s rather underwhelming. MK8 is still my favourite and I would never consider it “a boring racing game” in any way.

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      It’s kind of the only real Switch 2 game, honestly a weird launch situation. Feels odd to buy a switch 2 without Mario Kart. BOTW is cool and the updates are nice but I can play that mostly fine on the legacy switch.

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        Well, it was the only switch 2 game. Bananza is actually pretty cool.

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        I mean who would buy the switch two if they have the switch one already. That seems wildly excessive

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          Here’s my situation. The og switch battery is fried. I have a mario kart cart for the switch and when I was deciding which v2 option to get, I went without the mario kart world since I think I have played mario kart a handful of times and none of my family or friends have it or play it.