In the latest edition of Ask the Developer, Mario Kart World programming director Kenta Sato revealed the news that the team had originally intended for the game to be a Switch 1 title.
"We discussed things like toning down the visuals, lowering the resolution, and we even considered dropping the frame rate to 30 fps in some cases. It was a tough situation."
The last Mario Kart game, Mario Kart 8, was originally a Wii U title that moved onto the Switch as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe when the console released.
"We worked on it while kicking the can down the road in terms of deciding what to give up on, so at some point, we knew it was going to get messy," said producer Kosuke Yabuki.
He explains that the Booster Course Pass for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe allowed them to tide Switch 1 owners over while they worked on Mario Kart World, saying that once work began on the Switch 2, "this suddenly opened up a bunch of possibilities on what we could do. It was truly a ray of hope".
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was originally conceived as a Wii U title, and ended up launching simultaneously on both the Wii U and Nintendo Switch when the latter came to market in 2017.
For that reason, it's perhaps not hard to see why Nintendo ended up deciding to focus entirely on one definitive version of the game on a more powerful console than trying to shoehorn it onto weaker tech.
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