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Nintendo’s latest mobile game, the upcoming Mario Kart Tour<\/strong>, will be a free-to-start title.<\/p>\n

Isao Moriyasu of DeNA stated on February 8th<\/a>\u00a0that Mario Kart Tour<\/em> to be released in 2018 will not be a free-to-play title but will be a free-to-start game. Nintendo’s other free-to-start title it Super Mario Run where you get the first world free and then have to purchase the full game to unlock the rest of the content.<\/p>\n

While Nintendo plans and develops the application, DeNA handles the back end of server, infrastructure, analysis, etc.<\/p>\n

No word on more of a release date other than 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo’s latest mobile game, the upcoming Mario Kart Tour, will be a free-to-start title. Isao Moriyasu of DeNA stated on February 8th\u00a0that Mario Kart Tour to be released in 2018 will not be a free-to-play title but will be a free-to-start game. Nintendo’s other free-to-start title it Super Mario Run where you get the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[101],"tags":[664,2085,1386],"class_list":["post-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-mario-kart","tag-mario-kart-tour","tag-nintendo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mario_kart_tour_wide.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-3o6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12971,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/01\/nintendo-announces-mario-kart-tour-coming-to-smartphones\/","url_meta":{"origin":13026,"position":0},"title":"Nintendo announces Mario Kart Tour coming to smartphones","date":"January 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo revealed that they are working on another game for mobile devices, this one featuring their biggest character - Mario. 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