There is no price listed for the game yet but we should find that out soon. Reusing cabinets is a tested and true way of handling releases that also works to keep costs down. Here is the first shot of the US cabinet, which is a reuse of the 42″ monitor Dead Heat Street Racing cabinets that Namco released last year. Stay tuned for more over the next few days. Many other titles are as well this week ( check this post for a preview of various new titles from many different companies at the event Namco themselves have quite the line-up including the return of Alpine Racerand the psuedo-arrival of Ace Combat to arcades, Mach Storm) but this is the first big confirmation news we have received from the event so far. The game is currently being showcased at the IAAPA 2013 trade show in Orlando, FL. For anyone asking where to find an arcade near them, I’d suggest visiting which has over 1600 locations listed and counting. Today we can confirm that the game is in fact slated to launch outside of Japan for Winter 2013.

We made an assumption that the game would be making it to the West based upon the history of Mario Kart Arcade GP1 and GP2 having a release here. The game was subsequently tested and released in Japan this past Summer. Months ago Namco announced that they would be bringing Mario Kart back to the arcades for a 3rd round with Mario Kart Arcade GP DX.

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