United Kingdom, May 27 -- 'Mario Kart World' started development in 2017 and could have launched on the original Nintendo Switch.

The upcoming racing game will be releasing exclusively on the Nintendo Switch 2 alongside the console's launch next month (05.06.25), and producer Kosuke Yabuki has now revealed 'Mario Kart World' was initially being planned as a title for the first Switch eight years ago.

Speaking in Nintendo's 'Ask the Developer Vol. 18: Mario Kart World - Part 1', Yabuki said: "We were thinking about what to do for the next'Mario Kart'game even during the development of'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe', and we began prototyping in March 2017.

"It was at the end of that year when we officially started work on it as a project."

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