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before we even began david's first question to me was

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a hundred us dollars that's for two carts right

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oh david you're so silly cause you gotta

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remember guys all right this is nintendo we're talking

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about nintendo wants they're 60 to what like

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80 us dollars for a software title yeah okay

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and there's a software title included plus

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nintendo i mean they've done figurines

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in the past hey david you ever go to the toy store

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and see a cheap nintendo figurine that's what i thought now we've got a

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nintendo figurine that also happens to have a remote

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control car inside it oh that ain't gonna be

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cheap yes my friends mario kart live home circuit is

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very expensive but it is also

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quite possibly by my estimation the

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first augmented reality gaming experience that

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actually matters at all okay

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pokemon go is sort of augmented reality

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is that a game though it definitely

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mattered okay fine let's start with a look at the cart from

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a um you know rc enthusiast perspective

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i would say there's not a whole lot to this puppy

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you got your rear wheel drive uh there is no

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differential so you're pretty much just uh you're just turning those wheels

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on the front yeah there you go you got a

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servo probably nothing special i would assume

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i mean i probably could crack it open and have a look at it but long story short we

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actually need this for an LTT video very shortly so i'm going to try not to break it too

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hard so you've got a servo mounted to two non-driven front tires

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tires are removable if you are into that sort of thing i suppose

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well what look you want me to do you want me to unbox an rc car or not david

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this is my first time i thought you did a

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fire truck one time okay i did technically unbox a fire truck but

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nobody watched that the second tier luigi portion of this

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three months free at the link in the video description yep that's

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luigi it's basically the same thing but luigi

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okay then to nintendo's credit just like their

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amiibos or any other figures that they've done over the years the quality

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of the mario figurine here is actually really good like does he not look

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awesome up here we've got your camera so this is where you're getting your live

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well hence the name of the product live feed of

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mario's point of view effectively as he's ripping around on your floor or on

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your porch or outside or wherever the case may be actually i wouldn't recommend using it outside because a

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you can see that the carts have extremely low clearance from the ground

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and b they have no water resistance whatsoever

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and the last thing you want to do is ruin this thing because to my knowledge there is no way to get a new cart other

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than to buy the entire kit the last notable things about the cart are the type c

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charger port that is revealed by flipping up the side as well as the

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power button that also acts as a like pairing button

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so you can see yep held it down we've got a couple indicator lights on the back up here

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and that's pretty much it that's the cart so what else do we get

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some instructions you download the mario kart

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live home circuit game just for free on the switch as far as i can tell

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some environmentally friendly mostly packaging

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and finally uh

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yes the augmented reality

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gates so the mario kart

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game would have no way of knowing you know what kind of track you want to

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run around on inside your home so what it uses

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in order to blend the video game version of what you're playing on your switch

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and the reality of your home is these

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gates i actually spent a fair bit of time this weekend playing around with it

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so it's if you guys were wondering what the tl dr is it's

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it is really really fun but

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i would never play it by myself and i

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will explain why in a moment let's set up this gate so just like nintendo's uh

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labo lineup of sort of cardboard toys

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that they've created in the past you fold together your racing gates just

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by putting these tabs in here spreading out these ones here and then

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per the nintendo instructions putting something heavy on the edges this is

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actually far more important than even they let on

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because i pretty much guarantee you as you're ripping around

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on the track you're going to RAM into these things and if you hit them well this is an

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augmented reality game so the way that the cart actually determines what it's looking at

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is it looks at the relative position of this graphic

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here on the front of the gate to the objects around it to determine

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where the course is supposed to be so if you hit it and then back up

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your course is going to be a little bit wonky now so you want to anchor those

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down real good these are much easier to fold

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the second time you can print out your own nintendo does

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provide templates but obviously it's going to be a fair bit of work to create

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something that's quite as nice looking as the stock gates

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oh you can buy them too all right thanks james you get a total of

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four gates and the way that you configure your track is you go

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park yourself in front of gate number one and you'll get a prompt to press

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x and then what you do is a little likey

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too late toku it comes put some paint on your wheels in an

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obnoxiously long animation like nintendo

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come on have you played the nintendo switch mario party the

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endless animations and explanations for things you

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already know just complete

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anyway the animation put some paint on your wheels and then you roll through

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gate one and then map out whatever kind of course

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you like and you can decide okay look i want my course to be

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obstruction free i'm just going to do a simple loop or you can kind of

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you know wind your way between shoes and chair legs and all kinds of cool stuff

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that by the way is worth it because it ends up being a ton of fun the one thing to

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watch out for is after you complete your course with all four gates

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unfortunately no there is no way to add more than four gates even if you have

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more than one kit is that if you have physical obstacles

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the ai players who are augmented reality inserted into your field of view

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uh do not have to respect them and they will go through them giving them a bit

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of an unfair advantage now that's not to say that you can't use

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multiple kits if you want you can actually play with up to four players we'll talk about that in a minute

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the last augmented reality pieces we have here are these arrows and it's

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actually really cool the way that they they light up in front of you when

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you're you know ripping around on the course and they indicate of course

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which way to go now let's talk about multiplayer there's only

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two different versions available and from my perspective i'm sitting there

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going like nintendo you're a how many like billion dollar company

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obviously you'd have to have bowser and then yoshi yeah

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like peach yeah yeah how do they not have okay maybe that's their problem

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they've got too many iconic characters okay i probably would have gone mario

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luigi peach yoshi and feel free to fight in the comments if you disagree

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um so there's only two versions of the cards and you can play with

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up to four players in real time now we haven't actually

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tried it yet but what i'm imagining is that based on my experience racing

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against the ai players there is pretty much no reason to use

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this instead of just playing a normal mario kart game but based on my experience

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just using the the camera mounted like

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what is this like three inches off the ground just ripping around my house with

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that camera view it looks surprisingly good and like

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it is so fun it's exactly like what i

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said it was like back when we rigged a an action cam to

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an rc car and then like a racing wheel it is it is just a blast the car moves about

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like this like it's not fast but it feels like you

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are flying along the floor because you're so close to the ground and the way that

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nintendo mixes in augmented reality screen effects like

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you know when you use a mushroom for example yeah there's items when you use a mushroom it like kind of whooshes past

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you makes it feel way faster than it actually is there's

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three separate race speeds 50 cc 100 cc and 150 cc

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initial verdict for me is wow is this ever not worth 100

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for the single player experience but if you

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happen to be able to this is the problem with nintendo man they create these

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amazing gaming experiences that are like for who like when

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you know you think back to like even trading in the original pokemon games

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okay so i have to have the game i have to be super into it

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my friend has to have the game they have to be super into it one of us has to get

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a link cable we have to have coordinated ahead of time to like buy the opposite version of

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the game we have to go get all the pokemon the other one like who are you designing this stuff for out

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of the box doesn't make a ton of sense if you happen to have a bunch of people

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who also own it who also own switches i mean we are talking like two grand

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worth of investment by the time you've got enough to have a four-player race it looks like it's

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gonna be a lot of fun so i'm gonna go do that now make sure you subscribe to ShortCircuit and don't

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miss the Linus tech tips video where we're gonna have a winner takes all

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four player battle to the death mario kart race

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what's that to the death well not to the death but like

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hey vacation time

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james wants it to be to the death all right see you later