Super Yooka-Laylee Kart Appears on SteamDB - News
by William D'Angelo , posted 5 days ago / 863 Views
A new page on SteamDB has appeared for Super Yooka-Laylee Kart.
Developer Playtonic Games has yet to announce a kart racer in the Yooka-Laylee series, however, they have told fans to "Keep your eyes peeled folks, something big happening soon." The studio also teased, "Collecting quills is far too slow, There may be faster ways to go…"
Super Yooka-Laylee Kart will likely officially be announced during one of the upcoming showcases this week.
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Mjah, wished they made another 3D platformer.
I gotta be honest, you need a really big hook to compete with Mario Kart.
Well, Mario Kart is available only on Nintendo's consoles, so there's definitely room for a game in the same genre on other platforms. It might be hard to compete on Nintendo's consoles but not so much elsewhere - just gotta be good enough. Of course I'm sure they're hoping they can compete on Nintendo's consoles as well.
The interest in cart racers is definitely 90 % centered on Nintendo consoles though. And realistically Sonic and Crash take the rest, but hey if they think it can work maybe they're right. Has to have been fairly cheap to make for a chance of that though.
It's been 7 years since the last Crash racing game, and considering the lack of a PC release, there probably wasn't enough interest to warrant a new game either. Sonic is definitely more relevant, but personally I'd guess it's not big enough to not leave room for competition as well. There's a ton of arcade kart racing games, so either there's a lot of foolish developers or there's enough customers for so many of them. I'm guessing many of those games are also not released on Nintendo's consoles, so I'm guessing there's enough userbased elsewhere as well.
