Kirby Air Riders is a Switch 2 racing game from Masahiro Sakurai

Switch 2 is getting an unexpected sequel to GameCube racing crippled Kirby Air Ride, with Masahiro Sakurai — the archetypal Air Ride’s director, not to notation the creator of some Kirby and Super Smash Bros. — returning to pb development. 

Air Ride, launched successful 2003, is simply a four-player racer successful which players power different-colored versions of Kirby crossed assorted vehicles, on with unlockable characters Meta Knight and King Dedede. Air Ride is comparatively unsocial for its simplified controls, successful which characters determination guardant automatically, leaving players to interest lone astir steering, boosting, and utilizing Kirby’s trademark quality to suck up enemies and bargain their powers. 

The cinematic trailer for Air Riders doesn’t springiness overmuch away, though the changeable of 4 Kirbys racing unneurotic suggests astatine slightest a instrumentality of that subordinate count. Most breathtaking is the instrumentality of Sakurai, whose past crippled was 2018’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Kirby Air Riders volition merchandise connected the Switch 2 immoderate clip successful 2025, though apt aft the console itself arrives connected June 5th. It’s portion of a question of GameCube throwbacks successful the Switch 2 motorboat event, including the accomplishment of GameCube titles connected Nintendo Switch Online, and the motorboat of a wireless GameCube controller compatible with the Switch 2.