Nintendo has revealed development details for the upcoming game Mario Kart World, which will be one of the launch titles for the Nintendo Switch 2 console. As it turned out, the project was originally created for the original Nintendo Switch, but the team faced technical limitations that forced them to move development to the new platform.
According to programming director Kenta Sato, the team aimed to implement ambitious ideas, including races with 24 players, which proved to be a difficult task for the hardware capabilities of the original Switch.
“It was hard for us to include everything we wanted, so we were constantly thinking about what we would have to give up,” — Sato noted.
One of the compromises could have been reducing the frame rate to 30 FPS, which contradicted the standards of the Mario Kart series, where a smooth 60 FPS is traditionally used to convey the sense of speed.
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