This relatively plain name is standard practice for the opening track in Mario Kart games, with Wii U turned Switch game Mario Kart 8 opening with Mario Kart Stadium, Mario Kart 7

No one knows if this will be called Mario Kart 9 or something else, and the clip played second fiddle to the new console announcement, but as reported by VG247, Mario Kart creator Mankalor spotted a potentially major change to the game coming with the next-gen title.

A new track, different-looking characters, and seemingly up to 24 karters on track at once has convinced many fans that this is MK8 Deluxe's long-awaited sequel.

An indie developer familiar with making games for the original Switch has explained why that brief look at Mario Kart 9 suggests the Switch 2 is "significantly more powerful." The Nintendo Switch 2’s grand hardware reveal last week swept many off of their feet.

We might have only got one game reveal in the Nintendo Switch 2 unveiling but, as has been already pointed out, the few seconds of Mario Kart 9 that we did get is a lot more than it first seems. Not only does it seem to confirm 24-player online action, which is going to be insane, but there’s clearly some kind of open world element going on.

During today's reveal of Nintendo's new hardware, the Nintendo Switch 2, we got a brief look at a brand new game that's coming to the system: it's a new Mario Kart, and we know...next to nothing about it.

Various indie games have declared for the Switch 2, while Nintendo itself has only confirmed that a new Mario Kart game is in development for the console. In the meantime, rumors