Mario Kart for Wii Gets Spring 08 Release Date

Ars Technica notes, from Nintendo's Fall conference earlier this week, the news that Mario Kart for the Wii is slated for Spring of next year. The game is said to involve bikes for the first time: "It is unclear whether the bikes will be mostly an aesthetic effect or if the control mechanics will differ between karts and bikes. Mario Kart: Double Dash featured a collection of different carts with different statistics, but control was more or less the same across the board ... Despite accusations that Nintendo had nothing to offer the hardcore gamer in terms of announcements at the show, the latest incarnation of the classic kart-racing series was looking sharp in its debut."

Re:Coding Times

[mlk]

My guesses...

Nintendo:
Working out how to use the controller well.

Everyone else:
Did not bother with it until thinking it would fall flat on its face. Now attempting to get games out that use the controller.

Wait, what?

[Godai]

Despite accusations that Nintendo had nothing to offer the hardcore gamer in terms of announcements at the show...

What exactly does this mean? I consider myself a pretty 'hardcore' gamer, but I love Mario Kart. Does loving somehow Mario Kart exclude from this '1337' label? I always assumed a 'hardecore gamer' meant someone who played a lot of games & spent a lot of their time playing games. I didn't realize it also carried some sort of implication about what kinds of games they play. I mean, if some kid plays Pokemon ever waking minute of his life, I'd call that pretty hardcore.

Re:So...

[netsavior]

Double Dash sucked ass
I guess we weren't playing the same game? Did you bring the blue sparks? 3rd best selling game for gamecube and a high rank even on metacritic.