Mario Kart World reportedly had almost double the amount of developers as Mario Kart 8, with the Switch 2 game's art team almost tripling

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A big open world necessitates a big team, I guess

A mirror image of racers in Mario Kart World
(Image credit: Nintendo)

Mario Kart World reportedly had a much bigger development team than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with the transition to Nintendo Switch 2 and a new open world probably driving the beefier (cows, unrelated) dev count.

A new report from games industry analyst Papen (good spot, Automaton) digs into the numbers behind the best Nintendo Switch 2 game so far and how it compares to the series' last entry more than a decade ago.

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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