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Ask the Developer Vol. 18: Mario Kart World — Part 1 - News - Nintendo Official Site
This article has been translated from the original Japanese content. This interview was conducted before the game was released. In this 18th volume of Ask the Developer, an interview series in which developers convey in their own words Nintendo's th…
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Quick recap:
- The game has been in development since 2017
- The initial pitch was for an open world racer with 24 players on screen and 60fps for the Switch. The Switch struggled with pulling this off.
- By 2020, they had worked out a lot of the technical issues, but the Switch 2 was being planned by this point, so the game was moved to that.
- A smaller team worked on the Booster Pack for Mario Kart 8 to keep that title alive.
- Counting the intermissions between tracks, there are 100+ track variations in the game.
- In game achievement system that can be used for cosmetic kart customization