Countdown to Mario Kart!

[The Former DMiller]

I'm not defending Nintendo in general, just in this situation. I'm not blindly devoted to Nintendo and know they made a slew of mistakes the last few years. Wind Waker may have topped a Link to the Past, in my opinion, if it was more difficult and they had included that extra dungeon that they wanted to put in. I just think that all the criticism over Mario Kart is going too far. Yes it's been 7 years since the last home console Mario Kart, but do you really think they have been developing Double Dash that entire time? The teaser we saw at E3 three years ago was the first there was even a mention of a new Mario Kart, and that teaser wasn't even indicative of what Double Dash turned into. I thought the adding of two character per cart and specialized weapons was a great change for the Mario Kart series, and I don't think bots would have made it that much better of a game. Do you think another year or so of development to add some bots would have been worth it?