After a decade of eagerly awaited by players, Mario Kart: World, the orthodox sequel to the Mario Kart series, has finally been confirmedSwitch 2 The first escort masterpiece will be released simultaneously on June 5 at a price of $80. Nintendo recently revealed for the first time the development process of this innovative game across the console generation through a developer interview column.
According to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe producer Kosuke Yabuki, “Even during the development of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, we were considering the next carriage work and started prototyping in March 2017. At the end of the same year, we officially established it as a project. ”
He continued: “The team didn’t want to simply add tracks to cope with it (otherwise it would have been called Mario Kart 9). We want to take the series to the next level”, so we decided to abandon the number numbers and adopt the new title “Mario Kart World”, which we had already marked on the concept art draft as early as the early stages of development. ”
He said: “In previous carriage works, after completing the track, you will move on to the next track. But I don’t think it’s impossible to seamlessly connect tracks and build a unified world with modern technology. With this in mind, we set out to create a new type of carriage… And that’s where all the trouble begins. ”
He admitted that the team initially tried to achieve 24 people on the same screen on the Switch platformracing“In order to maintain the basic operation, we had to consider reducing the image quality, reducing the resolution and even limiting the frame rate to 30fps, which obviously did not achieve the expected quality, and the development process was in a stalemate for a while, until the project was transferred to the Switch 2 platform. ”
This long-distance development run that lasted for eight years not only carries the determination of the production team to break through itself, but also heralds the next generation of the racing game categoryevolveDirection. As the Switch 2 release date approaches, the answer is about to be revealed whether Mario Kart World can redefine the multiplayer entertainment experience.
