Nintendo says Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros. DLC will come this year to keep fans engaged

Nintendo did something strange last year … it made a profit. And to keep doing that going forward, it is planning more postrelease downloadable content.

The Mario company made most of its money last year thanks to the 3DS handheld system and a few major Wii U console releases like Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 8. For the rest of 2015, the company doesn’t really have any huge releases like that left — especially now that it has delayed The Legend of Zelda Wii U to some indeterminate time in the future. So to keep fans excited, it sounds like it is going to keep supporting its biggest hits from last year with even more downloadable add-on content.