Mario Kart 8 Won't Feature a Circuit/Level Creator

Mario Kart 8 producer Hideki Konno has confirmed that there won't be a track/course designer for the upcoming Wii U game.

Konno did acknowledge that the concept of user-created courses is "a fun feature" and something that he's been interested in "for a long time", during a GDC roundtable. The main reason for the lack of the much-requested feature is how tough creating courses are, as he noted that "we have a lot of confidence in our ability to do so, but we understand what a tough challenge it is to create those courses."

Konno feels that the team aren't a point where they are "able to do that at a level that would satisfy anyone, myself included, or the customer". That said, he still believes that if Nintendo can come up with "a solution and implement in a way that makes everyone happy, or we think will make everyone happy, we'll come back to that issue and maybe re-address it."

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