When Nintendo first unveiled the Switch 2 via a short teaser video in January, it felt the need to include a few seconds of footage of exactly one new video game running on the console: a new Mario Kart. This will be, numerically speaking, the ninth one, but it's very possible Nintendo calls it something other than Mario Kart 9.

The Nintendo Direct 2025 presentation Wednesday gave us plenty of new details on the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 console, along with tons of new info around new games we can expect. From an exciting new open-world Mario Kart to a Switch-exclusive FromSoftware game called The Duskbloods,