Nintendo fanatics consider that an announcement for Mario Kart World DLC is imminent, although it takes a couple of steps to achieve that conclusion.
Proof, followers consider, stems from datamined data from the Nintendo At present app, which shares each day bite-sized items of reports and affords a number of themes primarily based on varied Nintendo franchises. A brand new Donkey Kong theme got here to the app just lately, and per datamines (which you’ll be able to see on Mario Wiki), it seems to be just like the app will spotlight a personality that had a shock look in Donkey Kong Bananza.
Spoilers for Donkey Kong Bananza to comply with!
An intro animation for DK’s nemesis, King Ok. Rool, is purportedly set to function within the Nintendo At present app on December 15. It’s going to be the primary time Nintendo formally acknowledges his presence in Bananza, since his position was an enormous plot twist within the recreation. So, how does that relate to Mario Kart World DLC?
Again when Mario Kart World launched alongside the Nintendo Change 2, sharp-eyed players noticed that the Japanese voice performers for Ok. Rool and Bananza boss Void Kong appeared within the credit, regardless of their characters not showing within the kart racer. Whereas it is doable that the 2 voice actors performed totally different roles within the base recreation, followers took it as proof {that a} Donkey Kong Bananza-themed enlargement is coming to Mario Kart World.
The timing of Ok. Rool’s Nintendo At present animation rolling out a couple of days after The Recreation Awards 2025 streams on December 11 has followers attempting to attach some dots, believing that placing Ok. Rool within the highlight would tie in properly with a doable DLC announcement on the awards present.
It is not essentially the most implausible theory–Nintendo has made bulletins at The Recreation Awards in earlier years, and the comparatively paltry variety of costumes for Donkey Kong in Mario Kart World leaves room for an enormous DK-centered enlargement.
Regardless of the final result, Mario Kart followers are hungry for extra. Regardless of being the marquee launch title for Change 2, with gross sales almost matching these of the console itself, there hasn’t been any acknowledgement or trace of post-release content material for Mario Kart World. On the very least, Nintendo has continued to replace the sport, most just lately with an enormous patch that added options like customized merchandise guidelines.