but they aren't phoning it in? i mean, wii and ds are two of the very best in the franchise.
what exactly is it you want from them?
They are very different games as well.
I for one don't like the DS version at all, while I love the Wii version.
It is OK for him to say that the series needs to undergo a revolution to satisfy him, that it is boring
for him, but it doesn't give him the right to say that it hasn't changed objectively and is the same thing.
Or he may say that graphically it hasn't improved as much as he wants, but it not the same as GCN version at all.
I don't get people trying to equal objective qualities of games to their subjective desires and expectations.
Yes, and these are widely subjective terms that cannot be applied objectivity. You might feel Mario Kart 7 is a better looking game than any other entry, but someone else might not, and there's a fair case for both perspectives.
graphics though, have much clearer definitions. There's no way for the effects in the MK7 to had been in the GCN version, it isn't subjective. And so is not the geometry or texture resolution. Or view distance