At the end of the Nintendo Direct, we got our answer for that first question: Kirby Air Riders is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 on November 20th. For those in America, that's the week before Thanksgiving; it appears that the sequel to Kirby Air Ride is, inexplicably, Nintendo's big holiday release this year.

Kirby Air Riders, coming to Switch 2 in November, bucks every kart racer convention and could barely be described as a racing game at times.

Masahiro Sakurai revealed during the Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct that Bandai Namco and his own studio worked in tandem on the game.