Well, we are almost there. At the time of writing, it’s the day of June 4th. We are mere hours from some places doing a midnight launch of the highly anticipated Switch 2. Even though it’s not available yet, Nintendo has released a Mario Kart World patch for it’s bundled in launch title. The notes for the 1.1.0 patch were reported by Steath40k over on Twitter/X.

The notes are as follows:

Patch Notes 1.1.0

• Added support for Camera Play.
  *A USB camera (sold separately) is required for "Camera Play"
  *You can choose to turn the camera on or off for "Everyone" and "Internet” play.
  *When the camera is turned on, the player's face will be displayed during the race.
• You can now play on the Internet.
• LAN Play is now available.
  * On the title screen, press the L stick while pressing the L and R buttons to switch from "Local Communication" to "LAN Play."
• You can now upload/download ghosts in Time Attack.
• In Free Roam the icons of nearby players are now displayed.
• The number of characters that can be selected from the start has been increased.
• Improved operability when playing with three or more people in “Everyone.”
• The time limit for deciding on a course has been removed when playing Locally or LAN.
• The update data version is now displayed on the title screen.

The camera features were already highlighted when the game was announced during the Switch 2 reveal so it’s interesting that they needed to be patched in the day prior to release. Although there’s already been a lot of news surrounding the Switch 2 and it’s offline operability offline on the run up to the launch on June 5th.

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