Once just an innocent grazing farm animal with a love of grass, Cow in Mario Kart has certainly “moo-ved” up the ranks in recent times. Not so in Mario Kart World, the Nintendo Switch 2’s day-one launch title, which features a vast, inter-connected world, several new shiny features — and a huge promotion for Cow. A whole new world was unlocked by that realization, and the developers joked that Cow completely changed the game for Mario Kart, spawning tons of new ideas. Yabuki says his old way of thinking was that characters needed to have hands and feet to drive karts. “On release, I’m sure that we’ll see a lot of players choosing to race with Cow or Penguin, but this is still Mario Kart, so I hope that everyone remembers to play Peach and Mario, too.”Mario Kart World releases June 5 on Nintendo Switch 2.