Nintendo’s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Kart racer, Mario Kart World, may include a 120 fps mode, based on a preliminary performance analysis.
According to Digital Foundry‘s preliminary performance analysis of the Mario Kart World, the upcoming kart racer will apparently feature a 120 fps mode, though they don’t have any capture of it at the moment.
Digital Foundry mentioned that single-player and two-player split-screen mode in Mario Kart Wonder appars to run at 60 fps, though a single-player 120fps mode is included. Furthermore, it was said that the three to four-player splitscreen mode might necessitate a lower frame-rate. Currently, there is no available footage of four-player splitscreen to analyze.
In terms of image quality, Mario Kart World’s runs a t a native resolution of 1440p without TAA or temporal upsampling while docked, based on Digital Foundry’s analysis of currently available media. The game’s visuals rely heavily on baked lighting, which minimizes aliasing during gameplay.
In terms of performance, the 60 fps mode in Mario Kart World maintains its target frame rate faultlessly, as per Digital Foundry. However, the game’s photo mode operates at 30fps.
During a recent interview, Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America’s president, was asked about the difference in price of Nintendo Switch 2 games. He termed it as “variable pricing.” As per him, the console maker will look at each game, and the development that goes into the game, the breadth and depth of the gameplay, the durability over time and the repeatability of gameplay experiences, and many other factors in order to determine the right price point for a Switch 2 game. According to Bowser, Nintendo hasn’t set a benchmark for its pricing of Switch 2 games. He justified Mario Kart World’s 80 US Dollar / 80 Euro price tag by highlighting it as the follow-up to the best-selling stand-alone Nintendo game of all time, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with more than 67 million copies sold.
