Nintendo Announces Kirby Air Riders Release Date

Nintendo's upcoming Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders volition motorboat connected November 20, 2025, the institution has announced during its latest Direct presentation.

Today's 45-minute look offered a heavy dive astatine Kirby's caller racer and its assorted modes, including circuit-based tracks and a sandbox offering. And, close astatine the end, we learned erstwhile Kirby Air Riders would arrive, arsenic Nintendo's 2nd exclusive racing crippled for its caller console successful conscionable 5 months.

There was nary connection contiguous connected Kirby Air Riders' price, which volition beryllium of involvement to Nintendo fans aft comments from the institution connected Switch 2 games launching with much of a "variable pricing" exemplary than Nintendo has utilized previously. Mario Kart World arrived priced $80, portion the console's upcoming Drag x Drive is conscionable $20. Will Kirby's racer beryllium cheaper than Mario's?

Kirby Air Riders is simply a long-awaited sequel to the archetypal Kirby Air Ride connected GameCube, launched backmost successful 2003. It's besides a uncommon task for Super Smash Bros. brag Masahiro Sakurai that's not yet different caller introduction successful the Smash Bros. series, with the manager connected thing of a interruption from the franchise he's astir associated with... astatine slightest for now.

Nintendo's Switch 2 line-up for the remainder of 2025 present looks similar this: Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World arrives connected August 28, earlier Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition launches connected October 16. After that, Kirby Air Riders is up adjacent connected November 20.

The large chartless for Nintendo fans present is erstwhile the long-awaited Metroid Prime 4: Beyond volition yet arrive, and slot into the supra schedule. We've seen curiously small of the much-delayed crippled successful caller months, which presently sits with a vague 2025 motorboat window.

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