 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We have finally a massive update from Nintendo on the Wave 2 DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. We've been waiting all month for this news and it is here and it is coming next week. Now before I tell you more about it, hey, you know what we got? Woo! We're giving away this bad boy right here. So if you would like to win this nice little piece of wall art, some classic Game Boy goodness, go ahead and click on the link down in the pinned comment in the description and editor, take us to that intro. Alright with that out of the way, let's actually get into the content of this, well, you know, DLC. Let's go. Nintendo has finally confirmed that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Wave Pass 2 will be launching on August 4, 2022. That is next week, Thursday. Not even a Friday, a Thursday after weeks or maybe even months of speculation. We now know exactly what courses will be featured in the next release. These include Calamari Desert, Waluigi Pinball, Mushroom Gorge, and a brand new debut track like an actual new one, Sky High Sunday. So the tri-list is as follows, there will be two cups, obviously one of the cups is going to be turn up cup. It's going to include Tour New York Minute from Mario Kart Tour, SNES Micro Circuit 3 from Super Mario Kart, N64 Calamari Desert from Mario Kart 64, and DS Waluigi Pinball from Mario Kart DS. The propeller cup is really, really interesting. We get Sydney Sprint from Mario Kart Tour, Snow Land from Mario Kart Super Circuit, Mushroom Gorge from Mario Kart Wii, and obviously most importantly, the brand new Sky High Sunday Course is the one that ends the final part of this DLC. These eight new tracks join the tracks from Wave 1 and will be available to download next Thursday. Of course, you can access Wave 2 of the Booster Pass if you have access to the Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pass or if you purchased the DLC independently on the Switch, each shop for about $25. Sky High Sunday, the new track will also be added to Mario Kart Tour at a later date, so they're not just going to leave it on 8 Deluxe, although it will be exclusive to 8 Deluxe at launch. And then yeah, they have a little bit of extra information on the website, but it's not really any more informative than the trailer you're already watching. Look, I'm just really happy we're finally getting it and this does actually push things a little bit off. A lot of people thought that the courses needed to actually release in July to meet that every three months, every four months release date, but hey, it is the first week of August and the fact that there is actually a completely brand new course was something that I don't know a lot of people expected. I think most people thought we were just going to continue to see old courses from old games and then, you know, our new courses would just be stuff from Mario Kart Tour. They actually developed an entirely brand new track with such a precedent moving forward where maybe we can start to expect a brand new custom made track every single time to debut in this game and then come to Mario Kart Tour later. So the tracks are being made with Tour in mind, but they're being made first and foremost for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and that part is really, really exciting because, you know, the Tour tracks that get added are cool and feel new to a lot of us, but they're also designed for Tour, not for Mario Kart 8. It looks like this is going to be designed the opposite way. First for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and then for Mario Kart Tour. So in the end, this ends up actually being to me an absolutely fantastic compromise if you were on this ideal. So look, the Wave 2 DLC looks really, really great. I can't wait to play it. Unfortunately, it doesn't launch before Tuesday next week, so it won't be our game stream of the week, but we probably will end up doing a game stream of the Mario Kart Tour stuff the following Tuesdays. So not August 2nd, but actually August 9th, so we'll play through it. And then, I mean, unless I decide to do a launch stream, we'll play through it and do some other craziness there. I mean, who knows, maybe we end up doing a bonus stream on Thursday. So I guess I don't really want to, I haven't really thought ahead on this one. So I guess we'll play it when we play it and we'll live stream it and do tournaments and whatever else we get. Well, we can't really do tournaments, that's right. The new courses aren't in the tournaments. Damn, so I don't know. We'll figure this out as we go. The point is, the Wave 2 DLC comes next week, which is stupidly exciting. And look, we've been waiting for this announcement all week. Now, what I find interesting now that we have this announced is, if you combine this with Kirby's Dream Buffet, the Bandana 3 release day, the Splatoon OLED, and all the news on Xenoblade that's come out, all the news on Splatoon 3 that's come out, you start to get to this point where, with this release, this would sort of have been a Nintendo Direct. If you combine the, what is it, that big third party direct that they did with all the announcements here, if they were to just through this all together in a single direct, you can kind of get the picture of, man, that's like a really full Nintendo Direct. Huh, but you know what, we already talked about it earlier this month how Nintendo decided to take all of their personal, you know, IP-owned announcements and do this whole Twitter direct, social media direct kind of thing. And you know what, for the most part, it's kind of worked out for Nintendo. Despite all the complaints about waiting on this Wave 2 DLC, it's here. And it's here with a bang, with a brand new course. And I think that's going to make a lot of people excited. And now that it's announced, I think we're all just going to kind of forget what we've been saying over the last month, where we've been a little bit frustrated that we didn't know what was coming. So kudos to Nintendo. They seem to always make the wait worth it in some cases. Some people argue the wait for Mario Strikers for a decade. Maybe not worth it, but that's only because of the lack of content. Hopefully they finish that up by the end of the year. I look, I know this is obviously a grander conversation about Nintendo and their sports titles and just releasing what is not a broken game, but an incomplete experience. I don't know, man. I wish Nintendo would get their head over their asses when it comes to that, but you know, Nintendo's going to Nintendo. Anyways, folks, I entertain a RoboJance from Nintendo Prime. And I kind of want to end this video by asking you guys a few questions. One, are you really excited for this DLC? And what looks to be your favorite courses? Is it some of the classic courses you want to your favorites coming back? Is it the brand new course? Let me know down in the comments below. In fact, we'll probably do it on two separate polls today on which one these courses from each cup that you're most excited about. So be sure to check our community section. Also, be sure to go subscribe to our Nintendo Prime YouTube channel. We just got channel memberships over there. So if you really love our podcast and you want to throw some extra support, I would encourage you to go join as a member on that channel. That being said, our podcast from last night will be launching on that channel today. The audio version will be going out today as well. Oh, that's a lot to get out of my mouth. Here's the general gist of what's happening moving forward. We're getting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, way three is coming. They reminded us we're getting 48 total tracks by the end of 2023. And so they haven't adjusted the date. Nintendo sticking to their guns and I'm really, really excited about it. Also, I'm just curious. What do you guys think of the new setup? Obviously, we got a new microphone here and we're trying different angles and different things with it. I'm just curious what your guys' perspective is on this. Do you like the way I have it set up here? Do you like it if it's down here? Do you want it over here? I don't know, guys, we're kind of playing around with things. But for right now, this seems to be working pretty well for me. So you guys let me know and until next time. Nintendo Prime is out. Oh, wait, sorry. Sorry, sorry, Zach. I didn't I didn't mean to. Um, all right, bye.