When asked about how many courses Mario Kart World has, producer Kosuke Yabuki said that there are over 100 if you count all the racing between tracks and "possible variations".
From the moment that Nintendo gave us our first look at Mario Kart World (then presumed to just be called Mario Kart 9), it was clear that it'd be a much, much bigger game than Mario Kart 8. Not only did it have far more racers on a track at once, but the tracks themselves seemed to be a lot bigger than we'd ever seen before.
Mario Kart World is part Forza Horizon, part Crash Team Racing, and part Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed.
We quickly found out that was indeed the case, as Nintendo confirmed during the full Switch 2 unveiling that Mario Kart World is taking the series in a new direction with a fully explorable map. That map is already full of dedicated racing courses like you'd see in other games, but one unique twist of World is that you can also race between those courses, which makes it hard to say what actually counts as a track.
As pointed out by Game Informer, Nintendo recently shared...