Nintendo says Mario Kart World isn't called Mario Kart 9 because simply adding more courses wasn't the plan "this time" – "We wanted to take the series to the next level"

Switch 2 launch games: a close-up of Mario and Luigi racing each other during Mario Kart World.
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Nintendo has revealed that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mario Kart World isn't simply called Mario Kart 9 because the plan was to do more than add a couple ofꦍ courses into the mix.

Before we knew what the next Mario Kart would be properly called, plenty settled on MK9 for ease more than anything, though it did 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:kick off a debate over whether that's what it should be called – does the existence of Mario Kart Tou☂r mean we should have gone to 10?

It ultimately mattered littlꦑe as Nintendo went with Mario Kart World anyway, but if you really want to know the answer, producer Kosuke Yabuki confirms Mario Kart 9 would have been rﷺight, and the final distinction comes down to ambition.

In Nintendo's latest round of '' interviews, Yakubi was asked if it was always the plan to call it Mario Kart World rather than 🍷✨MK9.

"If the idea had just been to add more c꧃ourses, then I think we would’ve called it Mario Kart 9," he replies. "But, that wasn't our appro🧔ach this time. We wanted to take the series to the next level.

"So, we decided to drop the numbering this time and go with a completely new title, Mario Kart World. So, we'd already added 'Mario Kart World' to the concept art from the early stages of developmentꦫ."

Funnily enough, the exact same thing happened with Monster Hunter World, and Capcom h༺as expressed similar sen🀅timents about scope.

The developers also reveal that making Mario Kart World was a rather lengthy endeavor. Mario Kart World started development𒐪 as an OG Switch game in 2017, but Nintendo ultimately went open-world because developers believe MK 8 Deluxe per🗹fected "the formula that we'd been following" for 25 years.

Mario Kart World devs who "aren't that good at Mario Kart" are "favorites" in the Nintendo office because they can be the best playtesters: "Oh, so you don't get that. Interesting!"

Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz🦹, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.

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