The Question of How to Play Mario Kart Alone

This is a question that arose when I thought of how proceduralism could be placed onto this game, as it is heavily marketed as a party, multiplayer game. It is of course, possible to play in a single player mode, however, then is it really being played to its full extent? At least the extent that the developers intended for it to be played on? The question also then arises of if the game is bought for solely individual play, will it ever then be considered played correctly? Also, as it is a party game, if one is to play it competitively, as in tournaments or tourneys, is it still functioning as a 'party' game? The game is being utilized by a group, for the purpose of completing these tracks, but the aspect of fun can be skewed to now being about more of winning in effort for a prize rather than to have fun in the actual internal aspects of the game. If one is to play Mario Kart 8 in the lens of a proceduralist perspective, the game is then restricted to being purely for fun in a 'party' setting. The developers then also need to define what they consider a 'party' setting to be, is it what is shown in commercials? Or does there have to be a clarification? If someone is being too competitive, is it even fun? Or is there competitiveness just their version of fun? Then this makes the perspective of competitions even more complex as this can just be seen as fun. All in all, I think I am just curious in how this perspective can in actuality bring up much more questions and in terms can then become restrictive to audiences in general.