After the successful Super Mario Run game that was released back in 2016, Nintendo has announced that it will release a new Mario Kart Tour game for smartphones. The company said that the game is already in development and said that it will be released sometime before 2019.

The checkered flag has been raised and the finish line is near. A new mobile application is now in development: Mario Kart Tour! #MarioKartTour Releasing in the fiscal year ending in March 2019. pic.twitter.com/8GIyR7ZM4z — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 1, 2018

Mario Kart is one of the popular go-kart-style racing video games that was first released back in 1992 as Super Mario Kart on Super NES Console. The game evolved over the year, and the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the latest game that was released for Nintendo Switch last year, which is an enhanced version of Mario Kart 8 that was released back in 2014 on Wii U.

Similar to the Super Mario Run, this is expected to be a free to play game so that users can try elements of the game for free and later purchase the game to unlock the remaining levels.

The company usually releases the game on iOS devices first. It tied up with Apple to release the Super Mario Run on iOS devices at the end of 2016, while the Android version was released in March 2017. We still don’t know any other details about the game, but we expect some details as there is progress in game development.