SEGA's latest trailer for the next Sonic game calls out Nintendo, and no, we've not time-travelled back to the 80s/90s. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is due out next week at the time of this writing on September 25, 2025, and ahead of that launch, and the release of a demo this coming Wednesday, September 17, SEGA put out a new trailer showcasing CrossWorlds that included a coy call out to Nintendo's Mario Kart franchise.

The trailer is titled, " Come Race on Our Level ," and begins with a blurred image of Mario Kart on one screen with a narrator saying, " We all know that kart racing game. It's great. We don't need to show it to you. "

" But what if you can blast through and race on a whole other level? , " the narrator continues, before diving into a showcase of gameplay from Sonic

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