Nintendo Appears to Accidentally Confirm Iconic Track for Mario Kart World

Earlier this week, we reported that the Korean Nintendo website had accidentally revealed an announced quality coming to Donkey Kong Bananza (spoilers!), and present the website has confirmed an iconic way is making a instrumentality for Mario Kart World.

Warning! Potential Mario Kart World spoilers follow:

As with the Donkey Kong snafu, the blameworthy images were removed speedily from the authoritative website, but not earlier idiosyncratic snapped them and posted them to Reddit, of course.

As the images are beauteous fuzzy — and there's nary accompanying substance — this is fundamentally each we cognize truthful far. With a small cross-checking, it looks arsenic though a hidden Rainbow Road way volition beryllium conscionable beneath Princess Peach's Stadium connected the four-way intersection successful the bay country (thanks, Eurogamer), though it's unclear if it's a concealed way oregon immoderate benignant of unlockable extra.

It's besides got immoderate fans wondering if every four-way intersection could beryllium the determination of a hidden course.

On Monday, Nintendo justified Mario Kart World's daze $80 terms tag successful effect to contention implicit the $10 hike for immoderate Switch 2 games. IGN interviewed Nintendo of America's Vice President of Product and Player Experience, Bill Trinen, astatine a caller Switch 2 preview lawsuit successful New York, and asked astir Nintendo’s pricing strategy (albeit up of Nintendo’s announcement astir delaying Switch 2 pre-orders successful the U.S. owed to the imaginable interaction of tariffs).

“I would accidental it's little astir the strategy of pricing Mario Kart World, it's much conscionable whenever we look astatine a fixed game, we conscionable look astatine what is the experience, and what's the content, and what's the value?” Trinen said astatine the time.

As IGN has reported, immoderate Nintendo fans person expressed interest that they whitethorn beryllium priced retired of the next-generation if the institution goes adjacent higher than the already arguable prices for the Switch 2 and its games specified arsenic Mario Kart World owed to the tariff situation.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.