User blog comment:Captain Moch/"Mario Kart 8 Direct" Bomb Drop of April 30th, 2014/@comment-3396321-20140506105004/@comment-2072003-20140507220923

While I do love the idea of the Koopalings being in the game, they do take up a lot of slots for a 30 character roster and do give off a lesser aesthetic variety to some (basically, too many Koopas including Bowser and if you want, Koopa Troopa, taking up almost a third of the roster - 8 to 9 to be exact, give or take).

Also combining the the babies and the metal characters, we got ourselves 7 potential other characters gone. Bringing it up to another 7 with the Koopalings if ya want, there could've been 14 other (at least slightly) more varied characters for the rosters.

But hey, I'm not really complaining. I've always been neutral to the inclusion of Baby Rosalina and the creation of Pink Gold Peach and the latter in particular has been really warming up to me for some reason.