{"id":109820,"date":"2020-03-03T03:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/03\/02\/mario-kart-tour-for-ios-to-gain-multiplayer-mode-on-march-8"},"modified":"2020-03-03T03:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:50:23","slug":"mario-kart-tour-for-ios-to-gain-multiplayer-mode-on-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/mario-kart-tour-for-ios-to-gain-multiplayer-mode-on-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart Tour for iOS to gain multiplayer mode on March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- font size selector, BEGIN --> <span class=\"cfix\">&nbsp;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"gray small byline\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#a8c6cddfdbe8c9d8d8c4cdc1c6dbc1cccdda86cbc7c5\">AppleInsider Staff <\/a> <br \/><span class=\"gray\">Monday, March 02, 2020, 07:50 pm PT (10:50 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><span class=\"article-leader\">Following a months-long closed beta period, Nintendo on Monday announced a long-awaited multiplayer mode will be added to popular iOS racing game Mario Kart Tour on Sunday. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mario-kart-tour-for-ios-to-gain-multiplayer-mode-on-march-8.jpg\" alt height=\"371\" class=\"lazy\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mario-kart-tour-for-ios-to-gain-multiplayer-mode-on-march-8-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mario-kart-tour-for-ios-to-gain-multiplayer-mode-on-march-8-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>According to a tweet posted to Nintendo&#8217;s official Mario Kart Tour <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mariokarttourEN\/status\/1234629562308464647?s=20\">account<\/a>, the upcoming mode supports up to eight simultaneous players including &#8220;in-game friends, nearby, or around the world.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Nintendo breaks down three multiplayer game options in a separate tweet. Players can challenge friends or other nearby players to games with custom rules. A second option, called &#8220;Standard Races,&#8221; pits players against other other gamers around the world in races with two sets of rules that change daily. Finally, &#8220;Gold Races&#8221; are restricted to Mario Kart Tour Gold Pass subscribers and allow users to compete in races with four sets of rules that change daily. Rank, or &#8220;grades,&#8221; are applied to Standard and Gold Races based on performance. <\/p>\n<p>Testing of the multiplayer system commenced in a closed beta round <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/11\/01\/mario-kart-tour-multiplayer-testing-to-commence-on-ios-in-december\">in December<\/a> and was followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/01\/21\/mario-kart-tour-opening-multiplayer-test-to-all-players\">public testing<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p>Multiplayer competition has been a defining feature of the Mario Kart franchise since its launch on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 and its absence on mobile was viewed by some as a hindrance to adoption. Currently, players are limited to racing against AI bots, with in-game incentives like character unlocks and parts pushing users to continue play.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is due to go live on March 8 at 8 p.m. Pacific. <\/p>\n<p>Mario Kart Tour <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/09\/25\/nintendos-mario-kart-tour-goes-live-on-ios-after-multiple-delays\">launched in September<\/a> after multiple delays, with first week performance estimated at <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/10\/02\/mario-kart-tour-notches-estimated-90m-downloads-in-first-week-of-availability\">90 million downloads<\/a>. Android accounted for some 53.5 million downloads, while Apple&#8217;s iOS notched 36.5 million downloads, according to Sensor Tower. <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By AppleInsider Staff Monday, March 02, 2020, 07:50 pm PT (10:50 pm ET) Following a months-long closed beta period, Nintendo on Monday announced a long-awaited multiplayer mode will be added to popular iOS racing game Mario Kart Tour on Sunday. According to a tweet posted to Nintendo&#8217;s official Mario Kart Tour account, the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-109820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}