Looks like Switch 2 has its day 1 killer app:

Wait, what is this?!?!? Nintendo gonna be the one raising game prices to $80?!?

Don’t forget $450 USD starting price. That’s about 285 USD in the Wii/DS Lite era

(Sorry, wrong thread)

I am a bit wary of the open structure in this game. I didn't like other racing games which tried this, like Midnight Club. Proper race courses all have their own twists and well-designed layouts whereas going from point A to point B any way you like ends up being pretty boring, and that could be worse in Mario Kart World if you can just go off-road without penalties to your speed.

Makes me also wonder if there will be any good courses in this game or if the tracks end up similar to the Wuhu Island courses in Mario Kart 7 where a plain street layout is repurposed to a couple of racing tracks. Then again, Mario Kart World might offer courses from previous games which should only be playable in their proper form. Considering the high price of the game, I am optimistic that World will include an obscene amount of content right from the start, potentially more than 100 courses from older games. The title 'World' itself also suggests that this could be similar to 'Ultimate' for Super Smash Bros.

In any case, Mario Kart World will get its own Direct soon.

Hyped

I'm going for the bundle -signed up on NSO for it.

This is probably going to be the best Mario Kart to date.
But the $80 physical price? Yikes, yikes, yikes.

I'm sure it'll be great, but why did they have to drop the number? It's not like we can't count. And eighty dollars? Sigh.

Not the first time.

Super Mario Kart (1)

Mario Kart Super Circuit (2)

Mario Kart 64 (3)

Mario Kart Double Dash (4)

Mario Kart DS (5)

Mario Kart Wii (6)

Mario Kart 7 (7)

Mario Kart 8/Deluxe (8)

Mario Kart Tour (9)

Mario Kart World (10)

I always thought it was going to be hard following Mario Kart 8 with it's 96 tracks with a new game that would inevitably take the total back down to 32 tracks or so. So I guess this openworld twist is a way that avoids that direct comparison.

I'm not sure about the strange wall jump mechanic going on but otherwise the game looks like it has some much needed added content. There's more to do than just play through the grandprixs. I've been hoping for MK to get a better adventure mode like DKR/CTR and this might not be quite that, depending on what they show next week, but it's a step.

AVGN Chronologically Confused About Sequel Titles has entered the chat. 

If we look at the main titles, we go from.

system titles

subtitles

system titles

numbers

an adjective

No consistency in the slightest for more than 2 games.

Even the arcade games are guilty of it.