Motorsports Games has announced that Nascar Heat Ultimate Edition+ will be speeding onto a Switch near you next month, bringing the series to Nintendo's hybrid platform for the first time.
This is the official video game of the 2020 season, with all the 2020 official teams, drivers, cars and schedule from the three Nascar National Series present and correct. It also features the Xtreme Dirt Tour, with 39 tracks being included in the game in total.
The Switch version will contain all of the features found in Nascar Heat 5, including gameplay enhancements to AI, more camera options, and the option for DNFs, and also benefits from having the 2021 Nascar Cup Series Cars Roster and 2021 primary paint schemes. Here's a huge feature list to tell you all about it:

FEATURES:
• Career Mode – Progress through the feeder series (Xtreme Dirt, Gander Trucks and Xfinity Series) to reach the NASCAR Cup Series or jump right in and start at the top.
• Improved Stats – Track your progress through the Career with more detailed and improved statistics offering far more insight.
• Gameplay Enhancements – Improved AI, more player camera options and DNFs.
• Brand-new Testing Mode – Perfect your racing lines and experiment to find the best car setup for each track.
• Challenge Mode – Brand-new Online Challenge Mode gives you unique race scenarios to complete with a variety of gameplay.
• Official Tracks – 39 authentic tracks for you to race on across the various series, including Daytona International Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and Talladega Superspeedway, plus 9 dirt tracks.
• Multiplayer – Race online with up to 16 players or enjoy local split-screen multiplayer with a friend.
• Paint Booth – Even more enhancements, including new number fonts and schemes.
The game launches on 19th November and will be available both physically and digitally; it's currently available to pre-order on the eShop for $39.99, and you should start to see physical pre-order options appear at retailers soon, if not already.
Are you a Nascar fan? Will you be picking this one up next month? Let us know in the comments.
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MARIO KART 9 PEOPLE!
Decent game. Wouldn't play it on switch though. not arcadey enough to play without the triggers
Doesnt look to good
to many games coming out...
Nah, if i want the nascar experience i will race on baby park in mk8
So they're not bringing Nascar 21 to switch and we just get last years? Smells like EA
A left turn! And another left turn!
For a F1 guy like me, Nascar is kinda hard to swallow. It is like indy, but slower and with less proper circuits.
That said, Nascar Rumble video game was fun to play, maybe because, unlike Heat, they were not trying at all make it similar with the real life thing.
@Gwynbleidd Make that two votes for Grid. I love that game. I have since moved on to Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and then Burnout Paradise. But Grid is so good, and I hope to go back sometime and put more hours into it.
Day one - rather this than the new version as new version has only the main series. Really glad they are bringing this one with three series and the dirt one too. Amazing.
Loads of content and the career is decent too
39 different ovals!
Need a decent f1 game
Genuine question here as I don't watch NASCAR but it mentions 39 courses... 9 of them are dirt, OK, but does that mean 30 are essentially the same loop bit with different scenery/locations?
I'm thinking this could get a bit repetitive?!
Makes me think of playing Microsoft flight simulator and deciding to sit and do a London to Sydney flight... !!
@Jonasty198460 to be honest, these NASCAR Heat games were never a marvel of graphics. I have Heat 4 on PC, it isn't much to write home about. Wreckfest is a better game than NASCAR Heat honestly.
I'm suddenly become aware of a lot of racing games on the Switch recently that I really want...is this one of best represented genres after platformers and metroidvanias?
@Neoicelord the series was better when Sierra Entertainment had it. Their NASCAR Racing games were truly gorgeous. They lost the license in the mid-2000s right before Vivendi Universal bought them. Now, Activision owns the name and its been defunct since 2008.
Nascar fan and avid player here. I have played most mainline games including all of the heat series which are shabby at best, not bad on pc and pretty horrendous on ps4. This will be an absolute riot on switch. Also the nature of oval racing requires a wheel and is very unplayable without one. I would highly recommend against buying this.
A better option would be dirt trakin' 1 and 2 already on switch.
With the game being built on the Unity engine, I was wondering if and when this was going to be on the Switch. The NASCAR Heat games really felt like a step backwards compared to the games that came before them: EA Sports NASCAR and NASCAR Racing.
However, they can be fun to play as an arcade game. You have the ability to race in multiple different racing leagues associated with NASCAR. The new one, NASCAR Ignition 21, removed this feature.
If it plays like Daytona, I’ll consider
As a huge UK Nascar fan I'll be buying this if it runs well. I've put hundreds of hours into previous Nascar games and being able to race on the move would be awesome.
I'll have to see how the crash physics work before I buy
@nocdaes
Most Nascar tracks are loops, but they are different. Some are small 1 mile or even smaller like Bristol and Darlington. Others are road tracks which include many different turns. Resctrictor plate tracks like Daytona and Talladaga feature all the cars bunched up and easily going over 200mph.
Been wanting to pick up a NASCAR game, but being PAL region my options for one of the better ones have seemed pretty light. If this is good then I'll look out for a copy some day.
I played Dirt to Daytona on the Gamecube until my fingers bled..... Loved that game way too much lol
Hoping the two Tony Stewart games and the SRX game is next
LETS GO BRANDON! lol
Where’s the time trial mode? Will the entire game be on the card? Will it run in 720p in handheld? These are the types of questions you sadly have to ask these days with any new racer on the Switch. Should be a given.
I am not sure that having a game with 2020 teams at the end of the 2021 season is a big seller for anyone.
Looks pretty interesting. Analog or digital triggers, doesn't make a different for me in these racers cuz you're constantly easing in to corners and brake tapping. I don't think NASCAR 21 has burnouts, so I guess that's one perk this game has.
I'm curious as to how it plays and feels on Switch. Not a big NASCAR fan, but I'd consider if on a sale.
I'm pretty excited for WreckFest to get on Switch, I wanna see gameplay of that. Like NASCAR 1, I'm curious to see how it performs on the handheld considering the load times were atrocious on Xbox One. Pretty fun game once you get in to it though, a minute later.
@invictus4000 Lets Go Brandon!
I'd be a terrible NASCAR driver, because I'm always right.
I'd love to see the F-1 series come to Switch.
For a second I thought the thumbnail was someone poorly cosplaying Waluigi.
I used to love the EA Nascar games, if this runs well I am definitely interested.
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