Pretty much the entire internet was expecting today's Switch 2 debut, but the trailer did bring us a surprise first look at the next Mario Kart game - which, for the sake of convenience, I'm gonna be calling Mario Kart 9 from here on out. More than anything else, I'm obsessed with Yoshi's, which appears to be a Yoshi-owned-and-operated roadside diner that's giving me flashbacks to a 32-year-old puzzle game I thought Nintendo had forgotten about.
The track displayed in the bits of Mario Kart 9 footage we see is set along an American-style highway through the desert, and as befits the setting the racers blast past a roadside diner/gas station combo. Here, though, that diner is shaped like a Yoshi's head and is appropriately named Yoshi's, implying that there's a colorful dinosaur behind the counter slinging burgers.
