Nintendo's Mario Kart World, initially conceived for the original Switch, faced significant hurdles due to hardware limitations. Developers struggled to implement the ambitious 24-player open-world concept,

Mario Kart World is the Switch 2 launch title that most people will recognize, but it wasn't always intended to be one. In fact, the game's developers have revealed they actually wanted to release the open-world racer on the original Switch console. But the older hardware just couldn't handle it.

Nintendo has spoken about why Mario Kart World was selected as a launch game for Nintendo Switch 2, pointing to the fact that it is "broadly accessible" to