It first came out on the Wii U, way back in 2014. To put it in perspective, that puts it both 11 years from 2025 and the release of Mario Kart: Double Dash.

Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U runs at a bizarre fixed framerate of 59.0625 fps, whereby every 64th frame is a copy of the one before it. This only happens when CPU opponents are present, so it may be ...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, first released on the Nintendo Wii U, maintained its original 32-bit architecture in the Switch port prior to this latest update.