Nintendo confirms Mario Kart Tour, launch window for Switch Online service

Enlarge / Coming to smartphones by March 2019. Hopefully, we’ll see more than this logo screen by then. (credit: Nintendo)

Following a release of Switch sales information earlier on Wednesday, Nintendo closed the day by confirming two major releases coming by the end of the company’s current fiscal year: the paid Nintendo Switch Online service, and the first version of Mario Kart for smartphones.

The latter, currently titled Mario Kart Tour, will launch “in the fiscal year ending in March 2019,” according to both the company’s Wednesday investor call and a brief announcement on Nintendo’s social media channels. The only information we have about the game thus far is the logo you can see at the top of this article.

Meanwhile, Nintendo’s plans for the paid Switch Online service had already been pegged for some time in 2018, but today’s news finally confirms a more specific window—albeit later than fans might have expected—of September 2018. As had already been confirmed, this service will debut with some form of the company’s long-running Virtual Console service. In this form, it will include a regular rotation of games that can be played so long as fans pay for its subscription charge, as opposed to a pay-per-game charge as on older consoles. The investor call hinted to more “programs and content” coming to the service without clarifying what those features might look like.

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Source: Ars Technica – Nintendo confirms Mario Kart Tour, launch window for Switch Online service