>>724931649
Racing sims require car licenses. Nintendo does not do licenses, if it's not wholely owned by them it's not for them.
They used to have more serious arcade racing games like F-Zero and Wave Race, but eventually it all converged to Mario Kart, and Mario Kart devs hate racing more than anything. Where Smash and Splatoon add to the formula of their respective genres while still keeping a competent core of a fighting game and a shooter respectively, Mario Kart is hell bent on reductionism, every bit of actual racing is simplified, replaced, or/and explicitly discouraged. Extremely wide tracks, extremely primitive physics, deliberately placed safeguards against any and all skill expression, explicitly discouraged frontrunning, you will bag, you will only use party-approved shortcuts and you will play the intermission tracks.

>>535832943
>but if you want a watered down Mario Kart
You mean Mario Kart World?