As an arcade racing fan I agree. SEGA at least tried and spawned two nice Sonic Racing games. But that's pretty much it. The fun racers that have been released during the last years were just license crap and even if they sometimes play well, they are no real great games that make you come back again.
I'm also let down since Blur (and Split/Second) but I didn't even like Blur a lot after they changed the balancing after people rated the beta version. The beta was awesome but the final game couldn't keep up for me due to the changes. They probably just listened to the majority of beta players and thought they could make more money that way.
The titles that are still around as THE racing games don't feel as great as they used to for me in previous generations.
That's why I'd love to see a new Diddy Kong Racing. And I don't even mean the real sequel, just that I want a game with the modes it had and a few techniques (let go off gas, barrel rolls, etc. Even Mario Kart HAD interesting techniques in the past while DS was just about killing your dpad and 8 is about killing your jump button) that separate the fun friends and competitive crowd and keeping it tactical between those groups and not just a war of items that determines the final standings.
And I definitely miss Burnout.
