Mario Kart Tour heads for September shutdown

Mario Kart Tour is heading toward the finish line, and this time the blue shell is administrative. Nintendo has confirmed the mobile racer will shut down in late September, with premium currency sales and automatic Gold Pass renewals already stopped.

It is a big moment because Mario Kart Tour was one of Nintendo’s most visible mobile experiments, even if its gacha-heavy early reputation made plenty of fans grip the steering wheel in moral discomfort. The game still pulled in huge downloads and serious revenue across its life, but Nintendo’s mobile lane has been getting quieter. Sometimes the race ends not with a crash, but with a polite service notice.