The Wii Wheel that came with Mario Kart Wii was weird. A plastic peripheral with your Wii-mote embedded into it, which you wrestled about in mid-air to steer your kart. But that sounds positively ordinary when co✃mpared to th𒊎e news that Mario Kart 7 on 3DS is going to be getting a wheel peripheral too. Made by Hori and officially licensed.
Currently, it's only🌳 appeared as a listing on Amazon Japan, so a worldwide release is yet to be confirmed, but it's down for a December 1 release in the East. At first, there were no images, leaving us to fear it would be some tacky plastic tray in the shape of a steering wheel that your 3DS sits in. Hori has released some images of it. Erm...
Above: Well worth the ¥1,280 (£10.50) asking price?
Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years🧸 but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as wel🍌l as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.
