's producer, Kosuke Yabuki, has finally commented on why the game doesn't include any guest characters like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart 8 famously did.

Undeniably, one of the best things about Mario Kart World ♊168澳洲幸运5开奖网:is its 🌄unbelievably massive and weird roster. Alongside mainstays like Mario, Bowser, Peach, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and a redesigned Donkey Kong, we've got a bunch of playable side characters like Wiggler, Cheep Cheep, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and, of course, the fan-favourite Cow.

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While Mario Kart World's enormous roster is a massive boon for the game, and it almost feels greedy asking for more, there are some notable omissions. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Diddy𒅌 Kong is perhaps the biggest of the bunch, but W🦂orld is a♛lso lacking any kind of guest characters from other Nintendo series.

Mario Kart World's Weird And Massive Roster Is Why Other Nintendo Characters Aren't Included

The Villager racing across an Animal Crossing course in Mario Kart 8.

Back in the Mario ♊Kart 8 days, we saw a few . This spelled some hope that future games would go all and include even more guest characters, but that isn't the caseꩲ at all in the final game.

, Ouest-France recently had the chance to sit down with Mario Kart World's producer, Kosuke Yabuki, and ask him about why the game doesn't feature any Nintendo characters outside of Mario. The answer is pretty simple - the roster🎃 is big enough on its own a🅘lready.

Yabuki noted that it seemed "in𓆉congruous" to since the team already had plenty to do with all the characters. Yabuki does say that the team still "inevitably" w🌱orries about how the roster is going to be perceived, but that there's so much there that everyone should be happy.

As developers, it would have seemed incongruous to add characters from other games to this universe. And it didn’t seem necessary, giv🌳en everything we could already do with Mario. - Kosuke Yabuki

That sadly doesn't give us any hints as to whether guest characte♑rs might be added later down the line, but it does at least explain the game's glaring omissions at launch. Here's hoping we ge𝓀t some Booster Course packs in the near future to keep things fresh and crossover-y.

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Mario Kart World
Racing
Open-World
Systems
Top Critic Avg: 87/100 Critics Rec: 98%
Released
June 5, 2025
ESRB
E♈veryone // Mild Fantasy Violence, Users Interact
Developer(s)
Nintendo
Publisher(s)
Nintendo

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