The first wave of the new race tracks for Mario Kart 8 was released last Friday, providing a whole new slew of content for live streamers. For the first quarter of the year before the Booster Course Pack release, the number of unique channels streaming Mario Kart 8 remained steady at around 1500-2000 channels. Big events like the Mario Kart North American Open in January and the announcement of Nintendo Direct in February saw a jump in hours watched on live streaming channels, garnering about 935k and 811k hours watched, respectively. However, the number of unique channels streaming the game always stayed the same.