Nintendo is bringing Mario Kart to smartphones at some point in the near future. If we're lucky that could mean 2018; if not, then we're looking at a March 2019 release.
Nintendo is a strange company, but almost everything it produces turns into a success, with a few exceptions. Let's not forget the great failure we call the Wii U. Its latest effort, the Nintendo Switch, is a stunning creation, and the company's plans for it are grand.
In fact, Nintendo just announced that the Switch Online service will be available by the end of March 2019, which is great news in itself. The company also announced, in a bit, that Mobile Kart is coming to smartphones.
When Nintendo announced its earnings for the previous year and outlined its plans for the future, they also mentioned that "A new mobile app is now in development: Mario Kart Tour! #MarioKartTour. Its official launch will be by March 2019."
And that's pretty much all the information we're going to get. There's no news on supported platforms. What we can infer from the company's past experience with mobile releases is that the game may launch on iPhones and then come to Android.
The full name of the game is Mario Kart Tour, but it's impossible to know if they're creating something from scratch or if they've decided to open source one of the older versions. In any case, it's most likely going to launch in Beta and we're hoping that happens this year, preferably before the holidays.
