{"id":12354,"date":"2018-02-08T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/put_your_wallet_away_mario_kart_tour_will_be_free_to_start"},"modified":"2018-02-08T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:30:00","slug":"put-your-wallet-away-mario-kart-tour-will-be-free-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/08\/put-your-wallet-away-mario-kart-tour-will-be-free-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Your Wallet Away, Mario Kart Tour Will Be &#8220;Free To Start&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"BRUM.\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/put_your_wallet_away_mario_kart_tour_will_be_free_to_start\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/put_your_wallet_away_mario_kart_tour_will_be_free_to_start\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"BRUM.\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The news that Nintendo and mobile partner DeNA are currently working on a smartphone <strong>Mario Kart<\/strong> came out of the blue, even if it&#8217;s not all that surprising given Nintendo&#8217;s current smartphone strategy of using its biggest brands.<\/p>\n<p>Details on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are thin on the ground, but we now have a <em>little<\/em> more information thanks to the ever-reliable\u00a0<span class=\"FullNameGroup\"><a class=\"account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mochi_wsj\">Takashi Mochizuki\u200f<\/a>\u00a0of The Wall Street Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeNA CEO said &#8220;Mario Kart Tour,&#8221; a Nintendo-DeNA smartphone game planned for FY18, will be free-to-start.<\/span>\u2014 Takashi Mochizuki (@mochi_wsj) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mochi_wsj\/status\/961507134453071872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Again, this isn&#8217;t <em>tremendously<\/em> surprising as Nintendo has adopted the &#8220;free to start&#8221; or &#8220;free to play&#8221; approach with its other smartphone titles. The only slight exception to this was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/super_mario_run\">Super Mario Run<\/a><\/strong>, which offered a limited free version but required players to invest cash if they wanted to unlock the entire experience.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know your thoughts on this news by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that Nintendo and mobile partner DeNA are currently working on a smartphone Mario Kart came out of the blue, even if it&#8217;s not all that surprising given Nintendo&#8217;s current smartphone strategy of using its biggest brands. Details on Mario Kart Tour\u00a0are thin on the ground, but we now have a little more information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","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=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}