Nintendo has lifted the lid on the next DLC wave for the stellar Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which is arriving this summer. There will be new characters to choose from and they are Petey Piranha, Wiggler and Karmek. New tracks in Wave 5 include the brand new course, Squeeky Clean Sprint. You can check out the trailer for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Wave 5 DLC down below.
Mario Kart Wave 5 coming this summer and features Petey Piranha, Wiggler & Kamek as new characters

I knew we were getting a brand new track, id care if your gets it later on it’s so pretty, here’s to hoping Pauline is next for the next wave.
Now I’m worried about Diddy Kong…
I’m wondering about that myself.
Be very worried about DK in general. It seems Nintendo hates the Kongs, and only Universal / Illumination loves them.
Billion dollar movie that features them heavily but yet Nintendo refuses to make a new Donkey Kong game or put any new Kong in Mario Kart… I mean they straight up hate DK.
+Biffferno
That’s a load of rubbish.
Donkey Kong has been in almost all Mario spin off games alongside Diddy Kong. They even put Diddy in Mario Strikers Battle League.
Nintendo doesn’t hate Donkey Kong, they just don’t seem to want to give him his own game.
DK is dead. Dunkey was right.
I can’t tell if you’re trolling or just being silly.
DK hasn’t had a new game since 2014. All these sports games he gets stuck into… it’s because they need characters to fill a roster and they’re all second party developers. Literally only second party developers and Illumination Studios will use Donkey Kong, look into it. Nintendo literally won’t use Donkey Kong anymore. And MK8 doesn’t count, the base game is from 2013.
Mario Kart 8 was 2014
Mario Kart Tour is considered mainline Mario Kart by Nintendo so by your logic Donkey Kong wouldn’t be in it
The Mario Kart 8 DLC is being made by Bandai Namco, not Nintendo.
Donkey Kong had an entire DLC for Mario and Rabbids, I wouldn’t really call that them ignoring him.
Just because he has had a new game doesn’t mean Donkey Kong is dead. Nintendo may be a big name but they are still juggling multiple franchises at once, perhaps they simply don’t have the manpower right now?
YES, KAMEK! One of my top three wants made it! I’m “okay, good pick” about Petey and just wonder “whhhhhyyyyyy” at Wiggler.
Still holding out for Pauline and E. Gadd, though if only returning racers are included, I’ll settle for Diddy Kong instead.
Diddy Kong will never be in rhe game.
+Biffferno
Well Well Well….what say you now? Lol
I would like to know when it. Comes out