Wii Warm Up: A matter of delays

Some of you were already discussing this yesterday in the wee hours when the news of the latest Smash Bros. delay hit, but we thought we might give the topic a place of its own. Do you think the delay of Brawl will result in a delay for Mario Kart ... or was a Mario Kart delay inevitable anyway? We actually think the latter is pretty likely, for several reasons. First, nearly all of the Wii's big first party releases have been through one delay or another, so what the hell, we've come to expect it. But there's also the fact that we haven't seen much on the title, and nothing lately, so that whole "early 2008" deal is looking like it might turn into "sometime later." And really, as far as we're concerned? That's okay. It's going to take our wallets (and social lives) long enough to recover from Brawl as it is.