Mario Kart World Started As A Switch Game, But Switch 2 Let Nintendo Realize Its Vision
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The road for Mario Kart World has been a long one, as its developers have revealed the Nintendo Switch 2 launch title started development in 2017 as a Switch 1 game.
Details about the history of Mario Kart World’s development were just one detail of many to come from Nintendo’s Ask a Developer interview series, where one of the game’s producers, Kosuke Yabuki, said that prototyping for Mario Kart World began eight years ago in 2017 and that the decision to move the game to Switch 2 was “truly a ray of hope.”
“We were thinking about what to do for the next Mario Kart game even during the development of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and we began prototyping in March 2017,” Yabuki said. “It was at the end of that year when we officially started work on it as a project.”
