Nintendo having promised previously that gamers would get to create their own rooms where they can chat to other racers, have now reversed their decision and instead have installed fixed phrases or taunts to use.
Who'd have thought Mario Kart would be a ticking-time bomb for sass and textual debauchery?
"You can create rooms for friends to join and even text chat while you're waiting for other racers," said a false prophet of Nintendo to IGN originally.