So as more and more details flow in regarding the new Mario Kart title on the Wii, I find myself asking “why do we still care?”
This has got to be the driest active Nintendo franchise. So the new title (now slated for an April release) has twelve players simultaneously instead of four. Battle mode can have eight players instead of four. You use the Wii-wheel peripheral, an instrument we already know will cause limitless inaccuracy and frustration, instead of an analog stick. The fact that they say we may use an analog stick control-scheme if we wish guarantees the population’s choice.

What I’m trying to illustrate is that this is the same game we had served to us hot off the SNES thirteen years ago. Double-dash has been the most innovative title, and they quickly abandoned that idea with Mario Kart DS. It’ll never change, so why do you, the world, still love it?