Mario Kart 9 teased during Switch 2 reveal

thesixthaxis.com:

Nintendo’s reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 came with a big teaser for what will be easily the console’s biggest game: Mario Kart 9.

Throughout the short video that showed off the Switch 2’s hybrid design and how it’s been changed compared to the original Nintendo Switch, a Mario Kart game was running on the console’s screen in handheld mode, and when docked. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQR

There’s plenty of tidbits to dig out of this, most notably that this was a never-before-seen Mario Kart game, featuring a brand new circuit: Mario Bros. Circuit.

Mario Bros. Circuit takes us to a desert location with a proper race track design to it, though a track that quickly veers off the tarmac and onto the baked dirt of the desert, and eventually careening onto a multi-lane highway with traffic on it, where a Yoshi branded motoway-side diner or filling station could be seen as the camera pulled out to show a huge landscape, by Mario Kart standards.

We spotted a bunch of returning characters, taken from the regular cast of playable characters:

These characters were driving a variety of different vehicles, including traditional kart/ATV styles, bikes, and a new tracked snowmobile for Rosalina.

Today’s Nintendo Switch 2 announcement was pretty abstract outside of Mario Kart 9, showing lots of points of comparison how the console has changed from the original Switch design. It shows the added USB-C port on the top of the console, the new kick stand design, the enlarged Joy-Con with new magnetic snap attachment mechanism. The console shares the same hybrid approach as the original Switch with detachable Joy-Con for docked or tabletop play.

Nintendo Switch 2 is coming out in 2025, with Nintendo reconfirming that it will have backward compatibility to Nintendo Switch games, both digital and cartridge. Outside of that, details remain sparse, but given how Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has continued to sell and sell and sell, Nintendo has put its strongest foot forward already.