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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

 

[LordOcidax]

There's already a thread about this.

 

[Magic Carpet]

3 months per area. Seems resonable.
30 Areas / 96 Months of development.

Dang, this game is big.

 

[GymWolf]

Lmao how the fuck does this thing require the same development time of gta6?

 

[onnextflix5]

makes sense, looks so much like a cross gen game, also looks boring as fuck.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Lmao how the fuck does this thing require the same development time of gta6?

There are games that are made by a few people and have very expanded games, how is it possible that being Nintendo, they take too long on this project.?

 

[alphachino]

about $10 per year in development, then?

 

[GymWolf]

There are games that are made by a few people and have very expanded games, how is it possible that being Nintendo, they take too long on this project.?

Maybe they wasted all the money in fake lolitas whores with eyepatches and buldark cupnoodles, who knows?

 

[Represent.]

Holy fuck LOL

longer than GTA6

absolutely insanity

 

[GymWolf]

Holy fuck LOL

longer than GTA6

absolutely insanity

I joked around but i sincerely doubt that gta6 wasn't already in pre-production way before 2017.

 

[blacktout]

I joked around but i sincerely doubt that gta6 wasn't already in pre-production way before 2017.

I was going to say. Also, this game has probably been all but done for a couple of years, sitting on the shelf waiting for the Switch 2 launch.

 

[cireza]

Mario Kart World developer during the last 8 years :

 

[Soren01]

 

[Loboxxx]

 

[Kataploom]

Lmao how the fuck does this thing require the same development time of gta6?

Cause the time was spent on actually important things for the enjoyment of the game instead of making bubbles float realistically from beer or making horses balls shrink in the cold

 

[Sintoid]

Seven years thinking about what to recycle from previous episodes and one year to copy Forza Horizon
Cool

 

[VGA-Games]

That explains the higher Price for Mario Kart World.

 

[Schmendrick]

10 people exchanging posteds from time to time isn't "in development"

 

[Lokaum D+]

man, thats what i call lazy devs, 8 years to make a mario kart game ? geez

 

[AJUMP23]

Should be pretty good then.

 

[Fbh]

10 people exchanging posteds from time to time isn't "in development"

This.
"In development" is too vague.
Could be a few people having meetings a couple of times a month. Or it could be dozens/hundreds of developers actively working full time on the game.

Every major franchise probably has a sequel "in development" as soon as the newest game ships (or maybe even before that).

 

[GoldenEye98]

Lmao how the fuck does this thing require the same development time of gta6?

Those textures don't color themselves...

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

That explains the higher Price for Mario Kart World.

How about Cyberpunk, it took longer and they didn't raise the price?

 

[KungFucius]

That explains the higher Price for Mario Kart World.

Greed explains it better.

 

[Esppiral]

Bullshit, you know it, they know it.