{"id":9998,"date":"2026-07-11T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/garfield-craps-on-mario-over-upcoming-mario-kart-game-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:54:54","slug":"garfield-craps-on-mario-over-upcoming-mario-kart-game-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/garfield-craps-on-mario-over-upcoming-mario-kart-game-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield Craps On Mario Over Upcoming Mario Kart Game Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the kart-racing genre, Mario Kart&#8217;s reigns supreme. But the social media team behind Garfield Kart: Furious Racing and Garfield Kart 2: All You Can Drift didn&#8217;t miss a chance to dunk on Nintendo&#8217;s decision to sunset Mario Kart Tour this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On X, the official account for Garfield Kart declared its superiority to Mario Kart because it &#8220;will not randomly kill your game license.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Garfield Kart games are far behind Mario Kart in terms of popularity, the title characters do share a connection on the big screen. Guardians of the Galaxy&#8217;s Chris Pratt is the voice of Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and its sequel, while also portraying Garfield in the most recent animated film. That&#8217;s about as close as these two franchises will come to a crossover short of another Smash Bros. sequel that may seek lasagna-craving felines for its roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mario Kart Tour will be shut down on September 29, seven years after Nintendo began its push into mobile. Most of Nintendo&#8217;s other mobile games from that era have also shut down, with a few exceptions including Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes, and Pikmin Bloom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On consoles, Mario Kart World is currently the best-selling game on Switch 2, and it dropped a new update earlier this month. Two additional Knockout Tour routes were included in that update, with at least six more routes slated to be added in future updates.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the kart-racing genre, Mario Kart&#8217;s reigns supreme. But the social media team behind Garfield Kart: Furious Racing and Garfield Kart 2: All You Can Drift didn&#8217;t miss a chance to dunk on Nintendo&#8217;s decision to sunset Mario Kart Tour this fall. On X, the official account for Garfield Kart declared its superiority to Mario<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9209,206,7638,6043,165,9210,542],"class_list":{"0":"post-9998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-craps","9":"tag-game","10":"tag-garfield","11":"tag-kart","12":"tag-mario","13":"tag-shutdown","14":"tag-upcoming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}