Nintendo Insider Provides Update on Mario Kart 9

Mario Kart fans on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch OLED were expecting the next Mario Kart announcement from Nintendo would be a reveal of Mario Kart 9, or whatever the next mainline Mario Kart game ends up being called. These expectations were shattered this month when Nintendo announced 48 new DLC courses for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe that will release across six waves, with the final wave coming sometime in 2023. Not only was there no word of Mario Kart 9, but Nintendo committed to roughly two years of new Mario Kart 8 content. As a result of this, many Nintendo fans began to doubt a new entry was in the works, but according to a new report, it is. The new report comes the way of prominent Nintendo insider and leaker, Zippo, who relays word that they heard this new DLC is not being handled by the core Mario Kart team, but Bandai Namco. To this end, Zippo claims the core Mario Kart team is working on the next Mario Kart game.