>Hopes
Multiple City Trial maps with online play
Stars have underwater capability
Top Ride returns
Player-made objectives (ex: the ability to place a goal flag like Luigi's Balloon Mode from Odyssey)
Button remapping and the ability to decouple actions from the A button
They keep the ability to hop off the Star and walk around

>Fears
Some really gutted but stereotypically-Nintendo online mode that sucks, like "ghost racing" other player's Drag Race highscores or some shit like that
80$
Not 60 fps
No City Trial

>Expectations
A solid and definitively Sakurai-flavored party game that releases to 8/10 reviews
Most Stars return and we get some new ones
70$