Mario Kart Tour will have a closed beta on Android devices, registration now open

The Real Jdbye · Apr 25, 2019

Kinda hyped for this, I'm hoping it will be a proper Mario Kart experience, I don't really see how they could mess this up.

I signed up with my USA Nintendo account, I assume I'll be able to download the apk and play despite me not having access to the USA play store. And my USA Nintendo account and google account aren't on the same address but it probably doesn't matter if I download the apk. Worked for Dragalia Lost.

WiiUBricker · Apr 25, 2019

Oh hell no!

There you go, Nintendo

raxadian · Apr 25, 2019

Or you could ya know, play Mario Kart DS on a custom server.

InsaneNutter · Apr 25, 2019

wiewiec said:
Maybe VPN help with that...

A VPN is not going to change the email addresses associated with my accounts.

gudenau · Apr 25, 2019

I applied, you know I will dump this thing and look into it some if I get accepted.

(Hopefully they notice that I have like all the Mario Karts on my account...)

CoolStarDood · Apr 25, 2019

I signed up, and if I get in, I'm probably gonna dump it, and get it to someone who knows how to datamine APKs

wiewiec · Apr 25, 2019

InsaneNutter said:
A VPN is not going to change the email addresses associated with my accounts.

I . do not really know maybe proxy on switch and new account and e-mail for only japan play store?

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CoolStarDood said:
I signed up, and if I get in, I'm probably gonna dump it, and get it to someone who knows how to datamine APKs

Lots of people do this magic, for example mostly from russia, but I think nintendo will make this beta internet only and maybe by using unique tickets per device. I know that one app for android sharing internet tv from my country is fully internet based because it use unique device ticket... that is hard to decrypt. But for Nintendo is chance that is could be done quick because it have better world coverage than app that i stated... but I think Russians will do this first

orangy57 · Apr 25, 2019

aight everyone now we just wait for the .apk

x65943 · Apr 25, 2019

radicalwookie said:
What’s even weirder is the fact that it’s Android only while 90% of Japanese has iPhones

Apple is losing its grip on Japan. While they are the largest single provider of smart phones, the other android manufacturer's overtake them when combined.

Data on smartphone sales in Japan

Edit: Just adding some more data

https://www.techspot.com/news/75658-iphone-sales-help-ios-grow-us-market-share.html

PeeJay Bonobo · Apr 25, 2019

I've signed up on my Moto E⁴
1. It runs Android 7.1.1 (Nougat)
2. It has 2GB of RAM
3. It's an actual smartphone with an installed and active SIM card (though I'm not certain Nintendo is going to care for that bit)

Now, I also have a Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 (LTE Version), but I'm not certain about Nintendo's stance with phablets.

Glyptofane · Apr 25, 2019

Memoir said:
Why would we want a mobile mario kart when we already have a full fledged game?

Nintendo's investors demand this nonsense. Nintendo purposefully enforces a reduction in microtransactions compared to most mobile games to avoid damaging their image to normal fans.

stitchxd · Apr 25, 2019

InsaneNutter said:
If your Google account and Nintendo accent are not associated with an @gmail.com email you won’t be allowed to sign up sadly.

Both my accounts are associated with an email @mydomain.com, which is not acceptable it seems.

I guess given Nintendo's track record with online services I shouldn't be surprised about some random limitation like this. I’ll just wait until its released.

They explain the limitation if you read.

The reason it needs to be a Google associated account is because they have to give Google your email to allow you the beta link in the play store. No Gmail, no playstore (unless you are a paid gsuite user) which means no beta then.

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|<roni&g said:
I hope it’s a paid game with no IAP’s or loot boxes/crates and it better have controller support

You're in for a nasty surprise then

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InsaneNutter said:
A VPN is not going to change the email addresses associated with my accounts.

No but it can make you look like you're from the US. A rooted phone with a playstore region magisk module will help too.

DodgyJudge · Apr 25, 2019

Ewww cant apply

but it says i can only use gmail account lol so cant use my OG nintendo acc what a bum...

ganons · Apr 25, 2019

SkittleDash said:
I can't even apply anyway. Because now they're picking on my email for not being GMail.

I just created an account but used googlemail.com and it didn't work because it's not gmail.com Seems to be word sensitive even though they're the same thing

KiiWii · Apr 25, 2019

I hope this works on shield. I imagine using octopus would solve it anyway

AutumnWolf · Apr 25, 2019

Pretty sure it´s going to be kind of like a runner game, like subway surfers

stitchxd · Apr 25, 2019

Sinon said:
Pretty sure it´s going to be kind of like a runner game, like subway surfers

That would be a damn shame, at least Mario Run made sense to be a "runner" game since it's a side scroller.

radicalwookie · Apr 25, 2019

x65943 said:
Apple is losing its grip on Japan. While they are the largest single provider of smart phones, the other android manufacturer's overtake them when combined.

Data on smartphone sales in Japan

Edit: Just adding some more data

https://www.techspot.com/news/75658-iphone-sales-help-ios-grow-us-market-share.html

I dont agree with the downfall of iPhone in Japan at all.
I work (also in Japan about half of the year) in industry connected with some of the on Japanese telecommunication companies (mainly Softbank and NTT).
2018 data shows around 15% decrease in iPhone sales but that is mainly due to the similarity of the new models compared to 2017 (XS vs X).
Based on my speculations 9 out of 10 people in hlets call it) “Younger” population (15-40 years old) has ios device. The rest have mainly Sony models.

As for the older people (50 plus), many of them still use “galapagos” style phones (aka flip phones) because old habits die hard and theres your big portion of Sharp, Kyocera, Hitachi etc and some other manufacturers (these do indeed have smartphone models too, but they dont sell that well).

Apple supports Japan very well too in both applications (maps, siri, appstore etc) and services (subs, applepay, various discounts etc), same goes for advertising (still cant delete that mental image of iphone X and XJapans commercial)

InsaneNutter · Apr 25, 2019

stitchxd said:
They explain the limitation if you read.

The reason it needs to be a Google associated account is because they have to give Google your email to allow you the beta link in the play store. No Gmail, no playstore (unless you are a paid gsuite user) which means no beta then.

If you signup for a Google account using an existing email address it functions exactly the same as any other Google account.

My [email protected] email is my Google account. I sign in to my Android devices with that Google account, all my purchases on the Play Store are tied to that Google account. All the Android betas im apart of are listed on the Play Store under that Google account. If Nintendo send me an email i will get that email. It's also the exact same email address used for my Nintendo account.

If you read Nintendo even state "the closed beta app will be downloaded from Google Play", so exactly the same as any other Google Play beta:

The only limitation is Nintendo's signup form has validation rules to only accept the @gmail.com domain.

It would have been interesting to to try the beta as i'm a bit Mario Kart fan, however it's not the end of the world. Most time I have to play games these days is taken up by Pokemon Go anyway!

stitchxd · Apr 25, 2019

InsaneNutter said:
My [email protected] email is my Google account. I sign in to my Android devices with that Google account, all my purchases on the Play Store are tied to that Google account. All the Android betas im apart of are listed on the Play Store under that Google account. If Nintendo send me an email i will get that email. It's also the exact same email address used for my Nintendo account.

Well you explained this better than i did, but yes this is what I was trying to get at. Since Nintendo is doing the beta from their end, and it's a closed beta (maybe even other reasons) it's probably easier to say you need a gmail account so they can just process the request and tell google to give this google account access since an email for a nintendo account ending in gmail.com will ALWAYS have a proper google play store account attached.

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