Mario Kart Wii dated for Europe

By Robert Purchese Published 20 February, 2008

Here in April. Officially.

Nintendo has revealed that Mario Kart Wii will be released in Europe on 11th April.

It will cost around GBP 40 and come bundled with the Wii Wheel, but enables the Wiimote, Wiimote and Nunchuk, Classic Controller and GameCube Controller to be used if you are indecisive or frightened of the future.

Inside will be 16 tracks you know about and 16 you don't, plus 10 battle maps to pelt your friends on.

The game will launch alongside a new Mario Kart Channel where you can compare your rankings, share ghosts, chat, race, and join games in progress as a spectator - saving yourself a racing slot for the next course.

In total, 11 of you can duke it out online, or four of you can share a sofa and do it locally.

Oh, and it has motorbikes.

Pop over to our Mario Kart Wii gamepage for tons of new screenshots, videos and excitement.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • stampax #1 4 years ago

    Cool thought it would slip and take aaaaages to come out.

  • Heitzu #2 4 years ago

    Nice, but where's Smash Bros. Brawl?

  • aldo_14 #3 4 years ago

    I'm starting to think they have literally forgotten about Smash Bros now, though.

  • Agent_Llama #4 4 years ago

    Yaaaaaaaay!

    (But where's Smash Bros.?!)

  • DonnieDarko333 #5 4 years ago

    Good date NOE, very good date. I wonder if a certain GTA decided the fate of Brawl?

  • viper_h #6 4 years ago

    Where's Brawl?

  • Darren #7 4 years ago

    Good I suppose but I'm less excited about this game then I should be but then I know exactly what to expect having played the SNES, N64 and GC instalments to death. I'm sure it'll be enjoyable and tons of fun to play but it's not a game that has me drooling in anticipation since it's just another Nintendo "remake" really.

  • CallousB #8 4 years ago

    Brawl is now being rumoured as 6th June...but Nintendo have said it's pure speculation.

    It maskes sense for them to release Mario Kart first to be honest as it's a far more popular franchise in Europe.

  • Heitzu #9 4 years ago

    @ Darren

    At least Nintendo only remake games once for each new console. I'm sure you can find a way to disprove this, but for their main games mostly only one is made per console. Or one at beginning and one at the end of it's life anyway.

    (Please erase Mario Party from your memory!) :)
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/08 @ 11:49

  • gingerlink #10 4 years ago

    11 of you? wtf?

    surely it should be 12, or 11 others, still 12 peopla t once ought to be awesome.

  • MrsPacMan #11 4 years ago

    Zelda - 2 on N64
    Metroid - 2 on Gamecube
    Super Mario - loads on DS

  • Heitzu #12 4 years ago

    Yeah well if it were EA or such like publisher, there would be at least one every year, particularly with Mario Kart.

    Zelda on N64 and Gamecube twice but quite a long time between them, I think anyway, gamecube especially. Same with Metroid. Super Mario on DS... um 64 and New Super Mario Bros are the only ones, and 64 is a rubbish port which Nintendo should be ashamed of, whoopdedo they added 30 new courses and 3 other playable characters... they only released this so they could go "oh look we have a Mario game for this console, so please don't think the stylus is a gimmick" which was everyones attitude around the DS launch.

  • asphaltcowboy #13 4 years ago

    Thank you NoE at long last! Now all we need is SSBB and we're all good!

  • spazmo #14 4 years ago

    Do not forget we still need a Pilotwiings announcement....

  • Eighthours #15 4 years ago

    I hope they haven't screwed up Battle Mode again. A good version of that online would be amazing.

  • Tim #16 4 years ago

    Shouldn't that be m0t0rb1k3s?

  • MisterFalseName #17 4 years ago

    Can we have Pikmin Wii while we're at it? :D

  • Heitzu #18 4 years ago

    Yeah in fact Nintendo we want release dates of the following:

    Super Smash Bros. Brawl
    Pikmin Wii
    1080 Wii
    F-Zero Wii
    Pilotwings Wii

    I also fancy a game like the Game & Watch games on the wii but with Nes games at a budget price, which includes Ice Climbers, Excite Bike and any other retro game that would be called a rip off on it's on.

    Oh and any other francise you havn't used for a while, like Waverace and others. Maybe not Doshin though.

  • bad09 #19 4 years ago

    @ Darren

    I know what you mean about remakes and you have a point but as far as I'm concerned Ninty, or any other developer, can remake all the games the want - as long as they do actually put some effort in and improve on the original. Besides MK with a steering wheel sounds COOL!!

    There are SO MANY games out there that personally I would love to see remade with next gen treatment. Sod originality all I care about is good gameplay and if that means revisiting old games so be it!

  • yashin #20 4 years ago

    Glad to hear it supports conventional controls. I also hope it features the three-level, red/blue/yello/green block battle mode arena from the N64 version, online multiplayer on that thing would be superb.

    Is there any indication that Nintendo are working on Pilotwi(i)ings? It does seem like a perftect fit for much controller fun.

  • Artemus #21 4 years ago

    One day after Japan and before the US. Early April fools?

    I suppose NoE will make up by delaying Brawl till December or something stupid.

  • malloc #22 4 years ago

    "Oh, and it has motorbikes."

    LOL, love it.

    Good news.