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[Potential Leak] Nintendo might be bringing Mario Kart Tour to Windows PCs

MondoMega

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Mario Kart Tour, the mobile installment of the Mario Kart series, recieved a new update yesterday. While the patch notes didn't indicate many notable changes, datamining told a different story with many references to upcoming content coming to the game (new courses, battle mode, anti-gravity, connectivity with 8 Deluxe, etc). Most interesting to those who don't actively play the game, though, should be text strings that appear to hint at an upcoming Windows release for the game.

First, support for mouse as an input method has been added to the game:

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Alone this could be written off as possibly just being for development purposes, but further references to support for 'native emulation' appear to point in the direction of the upcoming Google Play Games for PC service set to launch later this year, which will utilise emulation for official PC releases of Google Play mobile titles (more information can be found on the platform's dev portal); or even Microsoft's own solution for Android apps on the Windows Store via Amazon App Store support on Windows 11.

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Either way, it seems Nintendo will be publishing a title of their own on PC in the future; even if it isn't in the form I imagine many were hoping for. Credit to the Mario Kart Tour Coummunity Discord (Koopavocelot in particular!) for the discoveries.
 
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Dyle

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Mouse support for Android emulation before controller support? I don't buy it as far as official support goes
 
lobdale

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Why not just put that it's Mario Kart Tour in the title? Even era threads are clickbait now
 
BrickArts295

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Honestly it would make sense to put MK Tour and Fire Emblem Heroes on PC, lots of money to be made there from PC leading countries.
 
Sarobi

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If the PC crowd buys enough microtransactions and say they like the game, then more games will follow. That's how PlayStation transitioned to PC lmao.

Edit: Like, REALLY pretend to like the game. Like say it saved your marriage, cured depression, etc. Lie, guys. Lie.
 
Mocha Joe

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But people on Era told me Nintendo games would never come to PC

But here we are, still a rumor but pretty interesting evidence.
 
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MondoMega

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lobdale said:
Why not just put that it's Mario Kart Tour in the title? Even era threads are clickbait now
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Some people on Era seem to get pretty anal when it comes to spoilers of any kind, so I thought i'd play it safe with the title. Mods can feel free to add a mention of mobile to the title if the current one is too clickbaity.

EDIT: Well there you go, already happened.

Lord Vatek said:
Cause it's funnier.
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this is also true
 
Kschreck

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Didn't Microsoft bring Android apps/games to Windows 11? I assumed this was playable in Windows 11 through the Android emulation layer or whatever but haven't looked into it at all.
 
Wrexis

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Wouldn't be the first time that's done for major franchises. My concern would be that sometimes half-assed ports get done this way (see Chrono Trigger).
 
Dyle

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You forgot to mention the most interesting part of today's update, the upcoming addition of a Mario Kart CPU Race Royale mode where you start in 100th place and have to make your way up to 1st
 
OtakuCoder

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Wrexis said:
Wouldn't be the first time that's done for major franchises. My concern would be that sometimes half-assed ports get done this way (see Chrono Trigger).
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Well from the sounds of it it's not really a port; it seems like they're implementing support for Microsoft's stack that lets Android apps run on Windows 11.
 
diakyu

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I mean I guess this would be cool if it wasn't clear most if not all of the original tracks are gonna be in 8 now

If this becomes a trend I hope Unite gets there but I understand that probably isn't up to Nintendo at all
 
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MondoMega

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rdbaaa said:
supporting emulated android is not what most of us would call "publishing a title of their own on PC"
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It'd be available for download on an official storefront, natively supported and enhanced on the platform (I linked the dev portal for the Google Play solution for a reason; they require higher resolution assets, proper UI scaling for larger monitors and 16:9 aspect ratio support; not all things Tour currently has fully implemented as the menus are forced portrait mode). That is "publishing a title of their own on PC" even if it is running via emulation.
 
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Jebusman

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This is less "Nintendo is bringing game to PC" and more "Nintendo is preparing for the eventuality that android games are going to be running on a PC within an emulated environment, we should probably make sure it won't be completely borked"

If these updates are appearing in the existing android version, then Nintendo isn't "publishing" anything new. Just preparing for a new environment that it will run on, the way that they have to accommodate for Android on ARM versus Android on x86 sometimes.

Like I appreciate your enthusiasm OP, but this isn't anything special. Unless you're about to argue that every mobile game on earth with Google Play (or currently, amazon) support has been ported to PC.
 
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MondoMega

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ned_ballad said:
What's the connectivity with MK8DX about?
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If you remember those strings found in Tour last year relating to some sort of connectivity with 8DX:

Mk8dxManager
Mk8DXSamplingRate
Mk8dxCooperationLog
Mk8dxLogSender
Mk8dxFetchPlayReport
Mk8dxAccessor

One additional reference has been added this update; which is notable since it's been over a year since the initial references were found:

Mk8dx_FetchPlayReport_RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND

Dyle said:
You forgot to mention the most interesting part of today's update, the upcoming addition of a Mario Kart CPU Race Royale mode where you start in 100th place and have to make your way up to 1st
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That's one of things mentioned in the patch notes itself so I didn't include it in the OP, but yes, that's seemingly coming next Tour. Works somewhat similarly to the elimination ruleset some who have played modded Mario Kart Wii might be familiar with.

 
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MondoMega said:
If you remember those strings found in Tour last year relating to some sort of connectivity with 8DX:

Mk8dxManager
Mk8DXSamplingRate
Mk8dxCooperationLog
Mk8dxLogSender
Mk8dxFetchPlayReport
Mk8dxAccessor

One additional reference has been added this update; which is notable since it's been over a year since the initial references were found:

Mk8dx_FetchPlayReport_RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND
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Hmm, wonder if there be some kind of cross game content, like the Animal Crossing Pocket Camp stuff in New Horizons
 

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I don't particularly have any excitement for it. The game is trash, in my opinion. And it just further delays any new "real" installment for the franchise.
 
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