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."

Please make battle mode not suck

[Sciros]

Mario Kart DS was ten times the game that Double Dash was, because it was basically a MK64 clone and MK64 was a stellar game. Double Dash was WAY worse, with no character balance (if you were Boozar on his big 6-wheeler you had to pray your opponent isn't as good as you or his Koopa team would eat you alive) and the most rubbish battle mode to ever be in a Mario Kart game.

So, as long as Nintendo realizes what went right with MKDS and what went wrong with MKDD, we'll be fine ^^

Oh and let's hope Namco has nothing to do with the game at all; I've played the MK 4-player arcade while in Osaka and it's BAD.

Missing Info

[Applekid]

One thing that's missing TFA is that online play can feature 12 players at the same time [kotaku.com].

Words simply cannot express how badly I want this. Instead of making 3 people hate me I'll make 11 people hate me. >:)