Does Cow Eat Beef? We Asked the Mario Kart World Producer

After spending the past 30 years grazing the fields of Moo Moo Farm and Moo Moo Meadows, Cow has taken the spotlight arsenic the biggest breakout prima of Mario Kart World's tremendous quality roster. So erstwhile Nintendo invited america to a roundtable interrogation with Mario Kart World Producer Kosuke Yabuki, we knew we had to inquire him astir the beloved bovine.

"Thank you for that question astir Cow," Yabuki began, which is 1 of the champion openings I've ever heard successful an interview. "The determination to see Cow was thing that we considered successful presumption of if we added that, I deliberation radical would beryllium truly blessed astir it. And truthful we did. But honestly, the absorption to that by the nationalist was overmuch bigger than we perchance could person anticipated. So that was a fantastic surprise. Thank you."

Yabuki's astonishment astatine Cow's popularity matches what we heard from Nintendo of America's Bill Trinen, who told america successful an interrogation that their interior expectations for Cow were "perhaps not arsenic large arsenic the cattle has become."

Cow's root communicative makes her inclusion adjacent better. In past month's Ask the Developer bid astir Mario Kart World, Yabuki confirmed that it was a developer's "silly sketch" of Cow driving a motortruck that convinced him and the remainder of the squad to adhd Cow arsenic a playable character. I asked Yabuki astir the improvement during improvement of what they're present calling "NPC Drivers", which grew to see characters similar Snowman, Penguin, Swooper, and galore others.

"I person to say, adding successful Cow truly opened the floodgates for america due to the fact that erstwhile you've got a quality successful similar that, you commencement to think, 'well, possibly we should conscionable adhd who we can,'" Yabuki continued. "And truthful that was the constituent astatine which the designers got truly excited. Once they realized each of these characters were perchance up for grabs, that's erstwhile you commencement to spot Penguin travel in, Pokey comes in, 1 aft another, these caller designs for characters support coming. And truthful due to the fact that each of these characters came successful specified a unreserved arsenic the designers were getting benignant of carried away, it's really a small hard for maine to retrieve which circumstantial quality would've travel instantly adjacent successful the series aft Cow. Sorry astir that! Because honestly, I person this representation of approving the conception for Cow, and past possibly the adjacent time I had 10 proposals for different characters connected my desk."

There's a imaginable darker broadside to this story, too, arsenic 1 of Mario Kart World's different caller additions is Dash Food, which characters prime up from Yoshi's drive-thrus astir the unfastened world. Shortly aft Mario Kart World was unveiled, IGN's Brian Altano noticed astatine a preview lawsuit that Cow was capable to devour products that traditionally see beef, similar steak kabobs and hamburgers. So, we asked Yabuki the eventual question: Are those veggie burgers, oregon what's going connected there?

Yes, Cow CAN devour steak successful Mario Kart World. pic.twitter.com/qN5PZ9IIM4

"Sorry, that's apical secret," Kabuki said with a laugh. "I can't say."

Well, the enigma remains, arsenic does the question of if Diddy Kong volition look successful Mario Kart World sporting his caller redesign, to which Yabuki simply said, "I'm acrophobic I can't accidental thing astatine this time." But the remainder of Mario Kart World's mysteries volition soon beryllium solved, arsenic we're conscionable 2 days distant from the merchandise day of Nintendo Switch 2 and its flagship motorboat game. For more, cheque retired our last hands-on preview of Mario Kart World, wherever we were impressed with the racing, but inactive haven't been sold connected Free Roam. And, cheque retired our preview of that $10 motorboat game, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.

Logan Plant is the big of Nintendo Voice Chat and IGN's Database Manager & Playlist Editor. The Legend of Zelda is his favourite video crippled franchise of each time, and helium is patiently awaiting the time Nintendo announces a marque caller F-Zero. You tin find him online @LoganJPlant.