Another point I would make. As far as Mario Kart goes, no one at our meeting had a copy of it. Therefore, we have no knowledge of what exactly is in the game. I don’t think any of us know anyone with a copy of the game for that matter.
We decided to bring Gears back since it still has a fairly large fan base AND with the release of Gears of War 2 around the corner, there’s renewed interest in the original anyways.
Wii Bowling and Mario Kart Wii are still going to be around. It’s not like we’ve banned them entirely. We’re going to have free play stations available and this time we’re going to monitor so four people don’t hog a console all LAN playing the same game.