before we even began david's first question to me was
a hundred us dollars that's for two carts right
oh david you're so silly cause you gotta
remember guys all right this is nintendo we're talking
about nintendo wants they're 60 to what like
80 us dollars for a software title yeah okay
and there's a software title included plus
nintendo i mean they've done figurines
in the past hey david you ever go to the toy store
and see a cheap nintendo figurine that's what i thought now we've got a
nintendo figurine that also happens to have a remote
control car inside it oh that ain't gonna be
cheap yes my friends mario kart live home circuit is
very expensive but it is also
quite possibly by my estimation the
first augmented reality gaming experience that
actually matters at all okay
pokemon go is sort of augmented reality
is that a game though it definitely
mattered okay fine let's start with a look at the cart from
a um you know rc enthusiast perspective
i would say there's not a whole lot to this puppy
you got your rear wheel drive uh there is no
differential so you're pretty much just uh you're just turning those wheels
on the front yeah there you go you got a
servo probably nothing special i would assume
i mean i probably could crack it open and have a look at it but long story short we
actually need this for an LTT video very shortly so i'm going to try not to break it too
hard so you've got a servo mounted to two non-driven front tires
tires are removable if you are into that sort of thing i suppose
well what look you want me to do you want me to unbox an rc car or not david
this is my first time i thought you did a
fire truck one time okay i did technically unbox a fire truck but
nobody watched that the second tier luigi portion of this
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okay then to nintendo's credit just like their
amiibos or any other figures that they've done over the years the quality
of the mario figurine here is actually really good like does he not look
awesome up here we've got your camera so this is where you're getting your live
well hence the name of the product live feed of
mario's point of view effectively as he's ripping around on your floor or on
your porch or outside or wherever the case may be actually i wouldn't recommend using it outside because a
you can see that the carts have extremely low clearance from the ground
and b they have no water resistance whatsoever
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
than to buy the entire kit the last notable things about the cart are the type c
charger port that is revealed by flipping up the side as well as the
power button that also acts as a like pairing button
so you can see yep held it down we've got a couple indicator lights on the back up here
and that's pretty much it that's the cart so what else do we get
some instructions you download the mario kart
live home circuit game just for free on the switch as far as i can tell
some environmentally friendly mostly packaging
and finally uh
yes the augmented reality
gates so the mario kart
game would have no way of knowing you know what kind of track you want to
run around on inside your home so what it uses
in order to blend the video game version of what you're playing on your switch
and the reality of your home is these
gates i actually spent a fair bit of time this weekend playing around with it
so it's if you guys were wondering what the tl dr is it's
it is really really fun but
i would never play it by myself and i
will explain why in a moment let's set up this gate so just like nintendo's uh
labo lineup of sort of cardboard toys
that they've created in the past you fold together your racing gates just
by putting these tabs in here spreading out these ones here and then
per the nintendo instructions putting something heavy on the edges this is
actually far more important than even they let on
because i pretty much guarantee you as you're ripping around
on the track you're going to RAM into these things and if you hit them well this is an
augmented reality game so the way that the cart actually determines what it's looking at
is it looks at the relative position of this graphic
here on the front of the gate to the objects around it to determine
where the course is supposed to be so if you hit it and then back up
your course is going to be a little bit wonky now so you want to anchor those
down real good these are much easier to fold
the second time you can print out your own nintendo does
provide templates but obviously it's going to be a fair bit of work to create
something that's quite as nice looking as the stock gates
oh you can buy them too all right thanks james you get a total of
four gates and the way that you configure your track is you go
park yourself in front of gate number one and you'll get a prompt to press
x and then what you do is a little likey
too late toku it comes put some paint on your wheels in an
obnoxiously long animation like nintendo
come on have you played the nintendo switch mario party the
endless animations and explanations for things you
already know just complete
anyway the animation put some paint on your wheels and then you roll through
gate one and then map out whatever kind of course
you like and you can decide okay look i want my course to be
obstruction free i'm just going to do a simple loop or you can kind of
you know wind your way between shoes and chair legs and all kinds of cool stuff
that by the way is worth it because it ends up being a ton of fun the one thing to
watch out for is after you complete your course with all four gates
unfortunately no there is no way to add more than four gates even if you have
more than one kit is that if you have physical obstacles
the ai players who are augmented reality inserted into your field of view
uh do not have to respect them and they will go through them giving them a bit
of an unfair advantage now that's not to say that you can't use
multiple kits if you want you can actually play with up to four players we'll talk about that in a minute
the last augmented reality pieces we have here are these arrows and it's
actually really cool the way that they they light up in front of you when
you're you know ripping around on the course and they indicate of course
which way to go now let's talk about multiplayer there's only
two different versions available and from my perspective i'm sitting there
going like nintendo you're a how many like billion dollar company
obviously you'd have to have bowser and then yoshi yeah
like peach yeah yeah how do they not have okay maybe that's their problem
they've got too many iconic characters okay i probably would have gone mario
luigi peach yoshi and feel free to fight in the comments if you disagree
um so there's only two versions of the cards and you can play with
up to four players in real time now we haven't actually
tried it yet but what i'm imagining is that based on my experience racing
against the ai players there is pretty much no reason to use
this instead of just playing a normal mario kart game but based on my experience
just using the the camera mounted like
what is this like three inches off the ground just ripping around my house with
that camera view it looks surprisingly good and like
it is so fun it's exactly like what i
said it was like back when we rigged a an action cam to
an rc car and then like a racing wheel it is it is just a blast the car moves about
like this like it's not fast but it feels like you
are flying along the floor because you're so close to the ground and the way that
nintendo mixes in augmented reality screen effects like
you know when you use a mushroom for example yeah there's items when you use a mushroom it like kind of whooshes past
you makes it feel way faster than it actually is there's
three separate race speeds 50 cc 100 cc and 150 cc
initial verdict for me is wow is this ever not worth 100
for the single player experience but if you
happen to be able to this is the problem with nintendo man they create these
amazing gaming experiences that are like for who like when
you know you think back to like even trading in the original pokemon games
okay so i have to have the game i have to be super into it
my friend has to have the game they have to be super into it one of us has to get
a link cable we have to have coordinated ahead of time to like buy the opposite version of
the game we have to go get all the pokemon the other one like who are you designing this stuff for out
of the box doesn't make a ton of sense if you happen to have a bunch of people
who also own it who also own switches i mean we are talking like two grand
worth of investment by the time you've got enough to have a four-player race it looks like it's
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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four player battle to the death mario kart race
what's that to the death well not to the death but like
hey vacation time
james wants it to be to the death all right see you later