{"id":126283,"date":"2022-07-05T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-134031"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:45:00","slug":"rumour-potential-mario-kart-tour-pc-references-found-in-datamined-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/05\/rumour-potential-mario-kart-tour-pc-references-found-in-datamined-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Potential Mario Kart Tour PC References Found In Datamined Details"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, grab yourself a big ol’ fistful of salt, everyone. A little datamined detail which is just plausible enough<\/em> to be true suggests there might be a Nintendo game coming to PC at some point in the nearish future.<\/p>\n

According to datamined information from the latest update to the mobile free-to-play racer Mario Kart Tour<\/a>, Nintendo has added not only mouse support, but also various code references to ‘native emulation’ that suggest a PC port could \u2014 repeat, could<\/em> \u2014 be in the works.<\/p>\n

As noted by MondoMega on Resetera<\/a> (thanks, My Nintendo News<\/a>), the information was reportedly found by the Mario Kart Tour Community Discord. Updates to the mobile title have been the source of various advanced leaked details<\/a> over the years.<\/p>\n

While mouse support could be a leftover developer tool that will never be unlocked for the public, or even an accessibility option, the references to emulation potentially indicate the game’s inclusion in the Google Play Games<\/a> PC program (which will bring certain mobile Google Play games to PC) or that it could be playable on Windows 11 in the future.<\/p>\n

To be clear, we’re very much in the realms of speculation here. As @kart_tour<\/a> points out on Twitter, this could also be the result of Nintendo switching between game engine versions:<\/p>\n