I'm inclined to agree. Blue shells suck. However, I noticed that in the Gamecube Mario Kart (which incidentally not many people played), blue shells were very, very rare. I think the reason for that might be because green shells, bananas, and other hazard items stuck around for the entire race. It was a lot more…

Personally, I think the way many 3rd party devs are shunning/rebelling against Nintendo is childish as fuck, and to be perfectly honest, they're burning a huge bridge. I'm tired of hearing the lame excuses for their behaviors, and the biggest being "but it's so hard to compete with Nintendo's software on a Nintendo…