Nintendo hopes that Mario Kart World will become an evergreen game for Switch 2 just like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe did for Switch 1, and I sincerely hope that means there's some DLC planned for it.
In Nintendo's latest financial results briefing presentation, president Shuntaro Furukawa reveals that "roughly nine out of every 10 people who purchased Nintendo Switch 2 have played" Mario Kart World, also counting those who bought the console and game bundle. That's not an enormous surprise – the sales of the Switch 2 and the latest Mario Kart entry have been close since launch – but it's still very impressive.
It'll be no easy feat to match or even surpass Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, though. As of the end of September, the OG Switch racing game had sold 69.56 million copies – for reference, Mario Kart World was sitting at 9.57 million copies at the same time. Of course, the former had a head start of almost eight full years, so those numbers can't be properly compared, but World definitely has some catching up to do.
More generally, Nintendo's hopes that players will choose World "for years to come" are interesting. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's lifespan was supplemented by its Booster Course Pass DLC – the first wave arrived in March 2022, quite a long time after the game's initial launch, but the base package was already supplemented with the DLC that carried over from the original Wii U release of Mario Kart 8. That's all to say that Mario Kart World's predecessor ended up with way more unique tracks to race on to keep things interesting over time.
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