TWO titles from the Mario Kart team in 2025? | EPD 9 Developer Deep Dive

Time for a deep-dive review of the history of the Mario Kart developers. Strap in as we look at Nintendogs, Arms and Mario Kart, at the devs who made them and how the team is now configured. It's another developer deep dive from Nintendo Forecast!

00:00 EPD 9
03:22 Development Capacity
10:34 Directors
13:08 New IP?

[GabePlaysYT]

Come to think of it, a new Nintendogs game released in 2020 at the peak of the pandemic would have been silly popular

[ATalkingSock]

I'm truly touched by all the ARMS-love in this comment section ❤

[brennanpeterhunt]

I would love to see a comprehensive video that overviews each of Nintendo’s studios and what they primarily make and then the IP’s that aren’t so fortunate

[Kale]

I’d really like to see an analysis on the Odyssey team. To my knowledge, they haven’t released a game since 2017, what are they up to?

[KBroly]

The next Mario Kart will either have a large presence of other Nintendo IP or it's going to have a track editor/uploader. But Battle Mode is going to be 'Battle Royale' mode.

[minecrafter]

Arms 2 would be a dream come true, my beloved underrated switch game

[vianabdullah]

Putting Min Min in Smash shows Nintendo has confidence in Arms as an IP. Not having a follow-up on the next system would be odd.

[kaasiand]

Given that Nintendo now definitely recognises MK as its biggest series and, especially if the Switch successor ends up being backwards compatible (meaning people would just be able to stick to MK8DX), I think the long silence from the MK team could indicate a title that's bigger than we've ever had—the SSB Ultimate of the Mario Kart series, so to speak.

I've been speculating that they've been working on remaking every single track of the series in high-poly, and what we got in MKT/BCP is simply a portion of what they had done up until then. Improving the quality of those models mainly through better textures, shaders and lighting (and also simply existing in a game MADE for the models' artstyle, as MK8DX definitely wasn't) would take far less work than remaking the entire models from the ground up once more, and Tour already contained more than HALF the tracks across the series, over 100, which is genuinely impressive—and it even had datamined signs of more tracks existing than what we ended up getting! Mario Kart 8's attempt at realism was cool back in the day, but in the end, I don't think that realism suits the series at all and only made the base game's tracks age far worse far quicker, so I think a more polished cartoony look would both help them save dev resources (letting them make far more courses in a more reasonable amount of dev time) and also return to the series's roots like with SMK and Double Dash!!. Plus, if Mario Kart becomes cartoonier again, F-Zero could coexist with it a lot more easily, with the latter getting the more hyperrealistic graphics instead.

That being said, I do think it would be a good move to also rerelease Mario Kart: Double Dash!! in one way or another, on the current Switch. It got somewhat gutted in the BCP pretty consistently, with none of its tracks making it into the entire first half of the pass, and one of the GCN traffic courses seemingly getting replaced with Moonview Highway, so perhaps that was done intentionally with the idea of "we're giving them the gamecube tracks in due time anyway"? Plus, having its unique two-player modes easily playable anywhere with the joycon feels like a perfect opportunity for this game. I think it would make for a decent 2024 holiday title, or perhaps a few months earlier if they decide to also add online multiplayer to it, to get people to extend their subscriptions especially with nothing major we know of coming out late this year.

[benbruns]

Professor E Gadd for next Mario Kart
Arms sequel LEGS

[Stephen-Fox]

An Arms 2 with a more fully developed single player would be something I'd absolutely pick up for the Switch 2, and 7 years - even with the Booster Pass - feels like enough time to make two games.

A video breaking down what New IP Nintendo have put out in the past... Decade or two, not sure what would be a good time frame for that... Compared to various other publishers would be interesting considering this is something Nintendo often gets criticized for. Especially if you used that data to do a forecast on what we can expect for the Switch 2 in terms of new IP.

[ThatArjun]

All we need is an epic new up before we bid farewell to our beloved Nintendo Switch ❤

[kenseikc]

arms was criminally underated and suffered greatly due to the net code perhaps with Nintendo systems there's hope for a sequel for the switch's successor

[TetsugoGaming]

I love your videos and how much insight you provide to us, but as a non-native english speaker, I would like to see mainly the quotes and some info being more displayed on screen instead of just the keywords.

[rdj]

mario kart 10

mario 3d world seiwlecbro

are definetely motherfucking launch titles bro

[caseypenk]

I hope we get Mario Kart Ultimate with all past tracks in the series for the Switch 2!!

[EnigmaticGentleman]

Willing to bet that if they have a second title in development itll be cross-gen and appeal more to casual audience. We've already gotten Pokemon Legends Z (unless GF are unimaginably stupid) and a new 3D Mario basically confirmed as Switch 2 launch titles, and if they're like previous titles they moreso target the hardcore demographic. I think its likely that Nintendo will focus on casual titles for Switch 1 while keeping the stuff their hardcore audience really wants as Switch 2 exclusive, since one group is much more likely to early adopt than the other.

[IAmNotASandwich]

Somehow your videos remind me of Machinima, back when it was still a thing

[RiqMoran]

Mario Kart tour is not a real game i dont wanna hear it. Excited for Mario Kart 9 tho.

[MD-seft]

wasnt lego mario kart game already confirmed?

[GrilledCheesetheMAX]

I want nintendogs VR on the super switch i cant have a dog right now so thatll be really nicw