Mario Kart Tour is no longer playable after its shutdown deadline passed at 22:59 PT on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. The mobile racer reached more than 276 million downloads and generated an estimated $268.5 million for Nintendo over its seven-year run, according to figures reported by Video Games Chronicle.
Mario Kart Tour is no longer playable after seven years
Nintendo announced in July that players would lose access after the September 29 deadline. That cutoff has now passed, and players can no longer log into the game’s servers.
Released in September 2019, Mario Kart Tour brought Nintendo’s racing series to mobile as a free-to-play spin-off. Its closure ends access to a game that spent seven years building a substantial roster and course library.
The mobile racer reached more than 276 million downloads
At shutdown, the game had 267 playable characters, including alternate outfits, alongside 340 karts, 238 gliders and 546 courses. It also introduced 93 tours during its lifetime, giving players a considerable amount of rotating content to race through.
AppMagic estimates cited by Mobilegamer.biz and VGC put lifetime downloads above 276 million and revenue for Nintendo at around $268.5 million. These are estimates, not totals reported by Nintendo; the headline figure of $270 million rounds that revenue estimate.
The game made money through microtransactions, including its controversial gacha Pipe system, which Nintendo removed in 2022. The shift in monetization is part of a wider conversation around gacha mechanics in free-to-play games, where spending systems can become a defining part of the player experience.
A seven-year live-service run ends
AppMagic estimates put monthly revenue at roughly $5–6 million for most of 2020 and 2021. By the time Nintendo announced the shutdown in July 2026, that figure had fallen to around $650,000 per month.
The numbers offer a clear picture of both the game’s reach and its changing commercial fortunes, without making the estimated totals official company figures. For live-service players, the shutdown is the end of a mobile racer with millions of downloads, seven years of tours and a deep catalog of characters, vehicles, gliders and courses.
