The latest Mario Kart news wasn't quite what fans expected, but it was still remarkable. During the February 2022 Nintendo Direct, it announced Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will get a DLC expansion called the Booster Course Pass. That isn't quite the Mario Kart 9 announcement that fans were hoping for, but the Booster Course Pass still promises to add a huge amount of content to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Over the course of 2022 and 2023, Nintendo will release six waves of eight remastered courses; 48 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in all. If Mario Kart 9 isn't happening anytime soon, such a big DLC expansion is a good consolation prize.