EA announces Nascar Kart Racing for the Wii! Yippie!!

[Bodhesatva]

Goodness, what is wrong with you people? EA is making a Mario Kart knockoff. Why is this sudden or surprising?

Need for Speed is and always has been a derivative racer. It's a generic, "bad ass" version of Gran Turismo.
Medal of Honor is a third string shooter modeled after every other FPS.
Madden has been iterated so endlessly it should make anyone sick, let alone all of their other yearly sports franchises.

What are you expecting from EA? Practically everything they do is highly derivative. They see what the best developers do, and then they copy them. Why is it frustrating that they're doing the same thing here?

What's more amazing to me is that it took them this long to copy a game like Mario Kart that's sold nearly 25 million copies over the Wii/DS in the last 5 years.