Editor’s Note: We originally and incorrectly reported the live stream trouble as affecting everyone when it was only the Nintendo UK feed that had its chat disabled. We’ve updated the article to reflect the actual circumstances.
The reaction to the Nintendo Switch 2’s price and cost of its games hasn’t gone down well, and US players have continued to spam the Mario Kart World Direct chat with more “Drop the price” comments in a plea, whereas UK residents didn’t get a say at all.
The Switch 2 Nintendo Treehouse live stream was inundated with hundreds and thousands of users spamming “Drop the price” over and over. It seems like Nintendo did not want a repeat of this for the Mario Kart World Direct, but it’s happened anyway.
Mario Kart World Direct Chat Hit by Spam Again
Mario Kart World is one of several Switch 2 launch titles. It’s a welcome title that innovates in almost every way, and looks to be a refreshing Mario Kart experience. Its announcement was tainted somewhat following the Switch 2 Direct when we learned it would cost $79.99 for a digital copy, and $89.99 for physical.
Nintendo is savvy and was wise to any sabotage efforts this time around compared to the Nintendo Treehouse live stream. The Mario Kart World Direct UK chat was disabled, and social media quickly picked up on this.
Nintendo has disabled chat for the Mario Kart World Direct🤣🤣🤣
Josh Gaming said: “Nintendo disabled the chat for their Mario Kart stream. Guess they don’t like feedback.”
Some people are claiming this is the norm for UK streams. What we do know is that this wasn’t the case in the United States, though, as the live stream chat was very much alive.
As you can see, it’s the same thing as the Nintendo Treehouse live stream. Unless action is taken, it’s hard to imagine any future Nintendo Directs where this isn’t the case.
Do you think this was inevitable, and Nintendo needs to do this to hide the negative feedback? Or should the company come out and address the controversy, or maybe consider lowering the price? Let us know here and in the Insider Gaming Forum.
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