Sonic Racing Dev calls Mario Kart World

With Mario Kart World Like the flagship launch game for Switch 2 This year, this is an unusual period for Sega to work on his own Kart runner with his emblematic Blue Blue. But Takashi Iizuka, head of the Sega sound team, not only recognized the elephant in the room during this year Summer game festival – He also tried to flex the Nintendo franchise.

Following a trailer with new characters to Racing Sonic: CrossworldsIizuka has taken up the SGF scene to highlight a major difference between her game and Mario Kart World.

“Unlike another Kart racing game, this game will have online multiplatform matchmaking so that you can run against all your friends on all platforms,” ​​said Iizuka in the middle of a rugging joy. As fans know, Mario Kart is a Nintendo Première franchise which is exclusive on the console of the Japanese publisher, there is therefore no way to appreciate it with people who have other modern consoles. Racing Sonic: CrossworldsOn the other hand, will be on all the large platforms when it was released on September 25 – including, ironically, the Nintendo switch.

In addition to revealing characters belonging to Sega as Persona 5‘S Joker, the last trailer for Sound racing also revealed that the game will not see anyone other than Minecraft Steve as a playable runner. It is a major object for SEGA, and also highlights another difference between the two racing games. Where Mario Kart only understands the main characters in Nintendo, Sound racing Includes RAD multisgments, like Hatsune Miku.

Not Iizuka reviving the beef between Sega and Nintendo. Everything is very fun, of course.

Correction (June 6): This story originally included a spelling misconduct from the name of Iizuka. It has been updated to reflect the correct spelling.