{"id":377365,"date":"2026-09-09T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377365"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:44:03","slug":"mario-kart-world-hasnt-been-announced-fresh-rumor-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mario-kart-world-hasnt-been-announced-fresh-rumor-falls-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart World hasn\u2019t been announced: fresh rumor falls flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo hasn&#8217;t announced any game called <a href=\"https:\/\/mario-kart-world.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Kart World<\/a>, and there hasn&#8217;t been a <strong>1.8.0 update<\/strong> for the Mario Kart series either, no matter what some new posts online are claiming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Mario Kart Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/2b0b647d-9b20-43d7-9d7f-a1a053ed1a50\/502238912\/mario-kart-tour-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Mario Kart Tour<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/mario-kart-tour.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/mario-kart-tour.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rumor going around says players would get <strong>10 <a href=\"https:\/\/super-mario-kart.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Mario Kart<\/a>-style VS Race<\/strong> courses, including Choco Island 1 and 2, Vanilla Lake, and Ghost Valley, along with the KO Tour routes Propeller Rally and Turnip Rally. None of that has been confirmed by Nintendo. There&#8217;s no official title, no feature list, no release window, and no mention from the company, so if you follow Mario Kart closely, there&#8217;s no reason to treat this as real yet.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest official expansion was <a href=\"https:\/\/mario-kart-8-deluxe.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a>&#8216;s Booster Course Pass. Nintendo released it in six paid waves from <strong>March 2022 through November 2023<\/strong>, and it was also included with Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. According to Nintendo, it added 48 remastered tracks, which brought the total from 48 up to 96, and the later waves also added eight extra characters.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports like this keep circulating because Nintendo has stayed quiet about a new mainline game, the one people usually call Mario Kart 9. <strong>Nintendo<\/strong> has confirmed is that Super Mario Kart launched in Japan on August 27, 1992, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and sold 8.76 million copies.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, if you want <strong>official Mario Kart content<\/strong> on Nintendo Switch, it&#8217;s still <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/not-all-switch-2-games-will-have-the-same-price-mario-kart-world-will-be-one-of-the-most-expensive\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a>. Super Mario Kart has also been released on the <a href=\"https:\/\/teconmoon-wii-virtual-console-injector.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Wii Virtual Console<\/a> and the Super NES Classic Edition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo hasn&#8217;t announced any game called Mario Kart World, and there hasn&#8217;t been a 1.8.0 update for the Mario Kart series either, no matter what some new posts online are claiming. The rumor going around says players would get 10 Super Mario Kart-style VS Race courses, including Choco Island 1 and 2, Vanilla Lake, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mario-kart-world-hasnt-been-announced-fresh-rumor-falls-flat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mario Kart World hasn\u2019t been announced: fresh rumor falls flat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":377364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377366,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377365\/revisions\/377366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377365"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377365"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377365"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}