Summary
When asked about how many coursesMario Kart Worldhas, producer Kosuke Yabuki said that there are over 100 if you count all the racing between tracks and “possible variations”.
From the moment that Nintendo gave us our first look at Mario Kart World(then presumed to just be called Mario Kart 9), it was clear that it’d be a much,muchbigger game than Mario Kart 8. Not only did it have far more racers on a track at once, but thetracks themselves seemed to be a lot bigger than we’d ever seen before.
We quickly found out that was indeed the case, as Nintendo confirmed during the full Switch 2 unveiling thatMario Kart World is taking the series in a new direction with a fully explorable map. That map is already full of dedicated racing courses like you’d see in other games,but one unique twist of World is that you can also race between those courses, which makes it hard to say what actually counts as a track.
Nintendo Says Mario Kart World Technically Has Over 100 Courses
Everywhere’s A Course!
As pointed out by Game Informer, Nintendo recently shared a four-part interview with Mario Kart World’s developers, where they talked about everythingfrom the inclusion of Cowto thegame originally being developed for the Switch. In the second part of that interview series,producer Kosuke Yabuki is asked about how many courses are in the game.
In response, Yabuki says that it’s hard to do a direct comparison toMario Kart 8since you don’t just race on courses in Mario Kart World and can do so in the areas between each track. Yabuki says that, if you count all of the “possible variations” that come from these in-between segments, the number of courses would easily “exceed 100”.
The areas between courses are also used for racing. So it’s as if there are courses spread out all over the world, and if you were to add up all the possible variations, it would easily exceed 100. - Kosuke Yabuki
That still doesn’t really let us know how many standard courses there are in Mario Kart World, but it does show Nintendo’s mindset when it comes to Mario Kart World’s map. Of course,I’m not sure fans are going to count every in-between road and area that leads to those coursesas actual tracks, but we’ll have to see in two weeks when the game launches.
