“We wanted to take the series to the next level”.
Nintendo has released a surprise ‘Ask the Developer‘ series on Mario Kart World ahead of its launch next month. The chat with the dev team is full of interesting revelations about the game itself, but one note in particular caught our eye right from the jump: the reason why the game isn’t called ‘Mario Kart 9’.
According to the developers, it’s all a matter of scope. “If the idea had just been to add more courses, then I think we would’ve called it Mario Kart 9,” Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki explains, “But, that wasn’t our approach this time. We wanted to take the series to the next level”.
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