After 4 years of updates, Nintendo has introduced that its cell racing recreation Mario Kart Tour will not obtain new content material after October 4.
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The in-game message was shared to X (previously Twitter) by longtime dataminer OatmealDome. After thanking the group for enjoying and asserting the subsequent set of excursions (a collection of races that final two weeks), Nintendo confirmed that content material from October 4 onward will merely be recycled in perpetuity.
“From 10/04/2023 (Wed) on, excursions will include content material from excursions which have appeared earlier than,” the corporate wrote. “Be aware: No new programs, drivers, karts, or gliders can be added following the Battle Tour beginning 10/04/20223 (Wed).”
Whereas the sport gained’t obtain any new updates going ahead, Eurogamer stories that Mario Kart Tour will stay playable for the foreseeable future.
Kotaku reached out to Nintendo for remark.
Mario Kart Tour launched in September 2019 and shortly grew to become considered one of Nintendo’s most profitable cell video games. As of September 2022, the smartphone spin-off has raked in some $293 million globally, however not with out its justifiable share of controversy. “Highlight Pipes,” a gacha mechanic that mainly functioned like loot packing containers with undisclosed odds, drew specific ire from the sport’s group. Nintendo eliminated these pipes in September 2022, however the firm is nonetheless going through a class-action lawsuit as of Could 2023 from a mother or father who claimed his youngster shelled out some $170 on Highlight Pipes through a bank card.
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Nintendo has a handful of different cell video games it’s nonetheless engaged on, together with Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, Hearth Emblem Heroes, and Tremendous Mario Run. The corporate, which additionally noticed big success this 12 months with The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, is seeking to increase its enterprise, dipping its toes into occasion organizing and different areas, in accordance with The Washington Put up.
