{"id":11785,"date":"2018-02-01T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/raise_the_chequered_flag_because_mario_kart_tour_is_racing_onto_mobile_soon"},"modified":"2018-02-01T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:57:00","slug":"raise-the-chequered-flag-because-mario-kart-tour-is-racing-onto-mobile-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/raise-the-chequered-flag-because-mario-kart-tour-is-racing-onto-mobile-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise The Chequered Flag Because Mario Kart Tour Is Racing Onto Mobile Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news14.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/raise_the_chequered_flag_because_mario_kart_tour_is_racing_onto_mobile_soon\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/raise_the_chequered_flag_because_mario_kart_tour_is_racing_onto_mobile_soon\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news14.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo has just unveiled its next plan to take over the smartphone market, and it&#8217;s bringing karts, shells and coins to the party. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a><\/strong> is the name of the new mobile title, with Ninty confirming it&#8217;ll be hitting a handset near you sometime in FY 2018\/2019 (so that means it&#8217;ll arrive any time between April 2018 and March of next year).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The checkered flag has been raised and the finish line is near. A new mobile application is now in development: Mario Kart Tour! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarioKartTour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarioKartTour<\/a> Releasing in the fiscal year ending in March 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8GIyR7ZM4z\">pic.twitter.com\/8GIyR7ZM4z<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/958876622517452801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know any more details at this stage, so we don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;ll be a fully-fledged Mario Kart game in the traditional sense or whether it&#8217;ll be free-to-play (like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/animal_crossing_pocket_camp\"><strong>Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp<\/strong><\/a>) or premium (a la <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/super_mario_run\">Super Mario Run<\/a><\/strong>). But a <strong>Mario Kart<\/strong> game on mobile? It&#8217;s an instantly recognisable brand, question is, what will Nintendo try to do with outside of consoles and handhelds?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nintnedo CEO:<br \/>-Mario Kart Tour, smartphone app, is coming in FY18 (April 2018 &#8211; March 2019). Details when appropriate.<\/span>\u2014 Takashi Mochizuki (@mochi_wsj) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mochi_wsj\/status\/958876181494812673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Let us know what you make of the news in the comments section below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has just unveiled its next plan to take over the smartphone market, and it&#8217;s bringing karts, shells and coins to the party. Mario Kart Tour is the name of the new mobile title, with Ninty confirming it&#8217;ll be hitting a handset near you sometime in FY 2018\/2019 (so that means it&#8217;ll arrive any time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}