A year ago to the day, Nintendo announced that a Mario Kart iPhone game was under development, and would be released ‘some time in the next 13 months’ – or by February of this year.
A mobile version of a Mario Kart game is already available on the Nintendo Switch (above) …
Nintendo made the original announcement on January 31 2018.
That, sadly, is no longer the case, revealed by a small note in the company’s latest earnings report.
Nintendo is staying quiet regarding details for Mario Kart for smartphones. The game will be called Mario Kart Tour, with a release coming in sometime before March 2019.
This was spotted by The Verge, which suggested a positive spin.
In the smart-device business, Mario Kart Tour was scheduled to be released this fiscal year, but in order to improve quality of the application and expand the content offerings after launch, the release date has been moved to summer 2019.
Nintendo revealed last year that Mario Kart iPhone game will employ the ‘free to start‘ business model which proved successful with Super Mario Run, which generated more than $30 million of revenue through players paying $10 to fully unlock it.
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