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Mario Kart 8 Team Says They Pushed Wii U To Its Limits

Speaking in the latest edition of EDGE magazine, Mario Kart 8 director Kosuke Yabuki says that the team pushed the Wii U to its limits while developing the beautiful racer. However, Yabuki told the publication that there’s still plenty of potential left in the hardware.

“Our aim was to create a game that used HD graphics and played at a smooth 60fps. We pushed Wii U’s capabilities to their limits to achieve this. [But] I think it still has a lot of potential left, and I suspect there are more ways to make use of its capabilities that we haven’t even imagined.”

Thanks, Silent

252 thoughts on “Mario Kart 8 Team Says They Pushed Wii U To Its Limits”

  1. inb4 ”Wii U’s last gen” comments.

    He means potential with the gamepad. The Wii U’s not at the end of it’s life cycle.

    1. Although I have to say that saying that they pushed Wii U to its limits but saying there is still potential is a contraction.

      1. SherlockWillFightBilbo

        I think the whole “potential” part was just added so people wouldn’t immediately go, “Well this is the best a game can look on this system,” even though they’d be right.

        1. Might have meant limits of their current knowledge.
          There is always some room for improvement on every console, just have to know where to tickle.

          1. Yeah, they probably could have spent another 6 months optimizing the game if they wanted…
            Luckily for us, they won’t.

              1. mario kart 8 should be enough to by a wii u for. though what the wii u really needs is a game like this:

        2. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

          X & Bayonetta 2 will strongly disagree with your “they’d be right.” statement. We truly haven’t seen the Wii U’s full potential. We’re only into the 2nd year of the Wii U’s life. Anyone that thinks it’s reached it’s full potential after only a year with barely any games is an idiot.

      2. He means for Mario Kart, as in a Mario kart game couldn’t look, or preform any better on Wii U, how ever he leaves it open that smash, metroid, Mario, or some other game could push the hardware in a different direction.

      1. Unlike social reject sasorideidaraobi, I can actually do all that in real life. Why simulate something you can do in real life? *smh*

        1. sasorideidaraobi has clearly never played NFS: Most Wanted on the Wii U. Every time I post a pic on facebook my Xbox/PS owning friends say it looks brilliant and can’t believe it’s on a Wii U.

          1. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

            People like sasori hate the fact that Most Wanted U has some of the best graphics a PC has to offer so they ignore it’s existence. If EA weren’t the ones publishing it, it probably would have sold a hell of a lot more copies. I guess we’ll find out when PROJECT Cars releases if it really was EA holding NFS:MWU back from selling damn well on the Wii U.

      2. Yeah I remember playing that game. It’s called THE OUTDOORS. Video games are supposed to be a escape from reality. With the realistic visuals there’s really no point in playing it when it’s available by stepping outside your house. People have to understand this: visuals are always secondary to gameplay. You might have a game that’s as realistic as Sasori’s ass, but have shit gameplay(exactly like Sasori). How will you enjoy it? Your logic is terrible, and I hope you wake up and stop harassing intelligent people in this website and stop good debates from happening

        1. That cracker is Sasori’s secret love mate looking at the ugly facials and both blindly talk hate BS like butthurt fanboys.

          They go together like outdated smores in a campfire and both deny to be gay while calling everyone else one. XD How adorable of these two butthurt Xbot queers.

      3. Forza 5: In range of 720p-900p with 95 percent of reused Forza 4, looks too familiar with another racing sim like Gran Turismo, 8 players online WITH RIPOFF LIVE and has STATIC AUDIENCE DETAIL FROM A 90s ARCADE GAME!

        Mario Kart 8: More/new characters, voice chat, FREE ONLINE PLAY, beautiful HD make over, 1080p, 60FPS, charming style, new items, Mario Kart TV to record, upload, customize and share gameplay footages, clever background design with in-game ads and audience that doesn’t look like a cheap stamp on a bench.

        Guess who wins this BS “comparison” war fuckface? I’ll give you a BIG CLUE: Its not a 1080p-less Xbox garbage.

        1. Forza 5 is actually running at 1080p 60 fps. But who cares… What happened with just having fun.

          1. Forza 1-5 has just over 10 million copies from 2005, while Mario Kart DS, Wii and 3ds combined have sold over 88.47 million copies from 2005.Even MK DS has sold more than all of the Forzas combined !!

        1. PS4 is a mere copycat of Xbox One but one, if not, two steps ahead of it in technical term and value.

          Xbox One..well, lets just say its an explosive retard in a gimped PC box with an identity crisis just like Sasori.

          Wii U is like a quiet, misunderstood youthful console getting constantly bullied in video game school for no reason, has to struggle and work hard to prove its place.

      4. You eat stinky peanutty poo poo nuggets poo poo face poo poo man sasorideidarobi poo poo eats poo poo and penis poo poo

      5. Nice E3 2013 Trailer of Forza 5… now if you actually look at the real gameplay however… it looks WORSE than Mario Kart 8 ;) And that was pushing the Xbox One hardware to it’s fullest while MK8 wasn’t really pushing it to it’s limits.

        1. Eww… that actually looks ugly as sin… and it’s pushing the Xbox One to it’s limits as well XD

      6. You do realize Project C.A.R.S. looks better than Forza, and is coming to Wii U, right? Sorry, your failure confirmed.

      7. Hahaha so lame. Mario Kart > any boring driving sim. Kart racing is a genre about fun. Go home peasant.

      8. Nintendoeswhatnooneelsecan

        Still doesn’t look as good as Project Cars which the developer has said will have the definitive version on Wii U.

    2. I know this sounds stupid, but I think the black Wii U looks more next gen than the white one. I got the white one and I sigh everytime I pass Gamestop and see the glorious black one in the window. Sitting there… Taunting me… ._.

      1. If you ask me the white one looks classier. The black one gets dirty so fast and is hard to get it off completely while the white one looks neat in the blink of a eye.

    1. Dude, are you mentally disturbed? I’m being serious. There is absolutely no way someone can be in this website and continuously hating on Nintendo without a break. I have been seeing you for every single article, negative and positive, and the only thing I hear out of you is “last gen confirmed” “Nintendo sucks” “getting xbox 360”. Even the worst trolls like icy and neutron eventually went away after a while. You? Do you seriously have nothing to do? I’m really curious about your life behind the computer. Do you have a job? Married? Every 3 minutes I see your name here. Either you’re some bot, or you seriously have a social problem. You call people social rejects, but I have a feeling you yourself are one.

      1. He some teen that lives with his folks, that seems to be trying to be someone he is not so that he fits in with internet

      2. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

        I seriously have these same questions & thoughts about Sasori. Even a few of the other trolls on here sometimes get on another account & talk nothing but positive things about Nintendo. Sasori, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to do that & just posts nothing but negative stuff. If he’s truly a Naruto fan & is not using that name & Naruto pics to just get a rise out of people, I feel bad for being one of the good Naruto fans. As if some of us don’t get hated enough for just liking the series, we have losers like this making it worse.

      1. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

        Actually, in the context of video games, realistic is the very definition of art style. Quit sucking up to realistic graphics, kid.

    2. Comparing reused STATIC trash (Forza 5) to a beautiful continuation that is Mario Kart 8.

      Hmmm, looks like you lose..as usual.

    3. Forza=720p Mario Kart=1080p. Using your logic from every idiotic post you spew, forza is last gen, mario kart is current. Keep the trill posts coming, because they are quite funny. There’s nothing like seeing a retard screw up over and over

    4. Reality racing games are a bore. Hold “X” “A” or “O” and steer with the anolog stick. If you are dead last you can’t catch up. I like the Mario Kart 8 no gravity function and the knowledge it canget 1080p 60fps.

    5. It’s so juvenile to be wrapped up in maturity and “cool” over childish fun. Adults can embrace the silliness of Mario Kart. Angsty teens get erections over some dull as dishwater driving sim. This game is trash.

  2. I hope that’s not true considering you don’t want to hear that they’ve tapped into all console’s potential in the first 3 years of It’s life. But by now everyone should know what to expect power wise from the Wii U and MK8 looks great so i’m not mad. Just give us a steady stream of great first party titles and the machine will be more than worth the money.

  3. I guess this means this is as far as we’re going to get in terms of graphics on Wii U. But then again, maybe not. Maybe it’s just me, but X and possibly the next Zelda game are going to look way better than Mario Kart 8. As long as the Wii U keeps up good gameplay in it, I could care less about the graphics. Oh, and 60fps is smooth like butter… :p

    1. Doesn’t mean they maxed it out, just means they really pushed the console to see how far they could go with themselves. Its always good to through out graphics out of gaming and focus on gaming, if you don’t you might as well watch CGI movie

    2. SherlockWillFightBilbo

      Zelda could be 1080p 30 FPS (they’re usually never 60 FPS), and X will probably be 720p 60 FPS. They’re both going to look great either way. I just hope X’s dialogue is actually synced though >.>

      1. I hope they do the europe dialog I actually like the way they spoke it kinda had some charm to it.

        1. SherlockWillFightBilbo

          Yeah I liked that as well. Also might allow for the return of Shulk and co.
          But based on the hints dropped in the trailers and gameplay footage, British dialogue is unlikely.

        2. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

          If I hear Shulk with a fake english accent, I’ll cry. I hate when some of my country’s movies use fake accents & doesn’t bother to get actual nationalities for certain roles. “Let’s get a Chinese guy to play this Korean!” Ugh! Hollywood isn’t running out of ideas, it’s getting LAZY!!

      2. I hope Zelda’s 60fps. ALBW was, but that was on 3DS… I am a complete sucker for 60 FPS.. Ever since I first saw it, I could never look at games the same way again. I also think X might just be 60 because of how long it was being worked on. Maybe. But a 1080P 60FPS Zelda is a dream come true… I can see it now. Link’s awesome super HD hair getting blown in the wind like smooth butter. Gah! Hurry up, Nintendo!! XD

        1. SherlockWillFightBilbo

          If the rumors are true and this is the biggest Zelda yet, I doubt it’ll be 1080p AND 60 FPS. I don’t really know if the frames/sec. matter for Zelda games, though, mainly because I’ve never really seen the difference.

          It will matter for X, due to all the things happening on screen. They really need a stable 60 FPS.

      3. I’d be totally happy with X being 720 \ 60fps. Actually, I’m fine with 720p. Not sure why any game running at 720 gets trash talked!

        1. SherlockWillFightBilbo

          It gets trash talked because there’s an option for a superior quality. Much like how the iPhone 5 becomes absolute garbage the minute the 5S is released.
          Also, PC games have been in 1080p for years now, and this new generation of consoles still struggles with it. That’s the problem.

        2. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

          Agreed. I don’t see a difference between 720p & 1080p. Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough. Then again, GOOD!! I don’t want to look hard enough! I want to enjoy the game’s graphics & gameplay as it is without worrying about whether it could have looked way better. And yes. Anything can look way better but do we really want it to? The better things look, the shorter some, if not most, games get.

      4. I don’t think it will be 720p. The developers of X would want to drive the console as hard as they can. If Nintendo can make Mario Kart 8 look stunning, then there is no reason they cannot do the same.

  4. poopyfacepotatonose

    The Wii U is just last gen QUALITY. But it’s not last gen. Generations refer to time… So yeah it’s Nintendo’s next gen console that happens to be last gen quality.

    GOSHHHHHHH

      1. SherlockWillFightBilbo

        It’s above their quality but not by much. It didn’t make that much of a significant difference. If you compare Wii to Wii U, yeah it’s a HUGE difference. But compared to the standard of last generation, it’s not a big jump.

          1. I agree. When I played the first wii u game which was ninja gaiden 3, I was actually blown away at the graphics but I said to my brother (he too was blown away), “Lets see what this baby can do”. The gameplay was fantastic, then we got Tekken tag 2 for the 360 and I played it. “Time to kill peoplez” I said, I played the game’s story first and after I beat it, I was like “Yaay, ONLINE TIME!” Then disappointment came, you needed a code to go online of the game for WHAT REASON is beyond me. I took it back that same day. Go figure…

            1. No, not really, all I see is much better lighting and slightly noticeable better detail, nothing else, and I’m not blind, that is what I really see because lighting seems to make the screen pop, have that wow factor, but in the end, once you notice it, it’s just the lighting that makes it look better.

            2. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

              What Mike said. Are you sure you’re not just looking WAY too hard at the graphics? If you can see a couple of little specks of pixels that looks better than everything else, you should probably pull back from the television just a bit.

        1. Same can be said to PS3 to PS4. I don’t see much difference either. So stop trying to shit on something that’s clearly better than you.

  5. I seriously need to get me a PC. After I get a job, I’m going to stop buying video games until I get to about $1500. I’m looking for a power hungry PC… One that can destroy the 8th gen in terms of graphics… It’s gonna be costly, but definitely worth it. I stay at home alot, so it’d make more sense to get a desktop. Definitely PC and Wii U this gen for me.

    1. SherlockWillFightBilbo

      From what I’ve heard, building a PC is cheaper and better overall. How you go about building a PC is beyond me though.

            1. Awwww happy your PC is powerful? And? What’s that powerful PC of yours going to get you Zelda? MK8? Smash Bros? Reality gaming is a bore.

            2. …. *facepalm*
              You really are a fake gamer…
              the Intel i3 has a lower clockspeed than that but it can still beat the APU in performance with very little power drain. You are basically running a turtle with that APU. Finally, it CAN do DX 11 but it’s not powerful enough to untilize any of it unless you lower the res down the PS3 and Xbox 360 res (Which is 480p) so yeah..

              You just owned by a PC Master little boy

            3. you are an idiot arnt you?

              thats the CPU dumbass, the wii U cpu at 1.24 ghz would MOP the damn floor with that weak ass CPU. Its only a Quad on some of the weakest tech!

              the gpu on that is 443 MHZ and pushes a MEASLY 284gflops.

              which means even IF the Wii U gpu was 352 GFLOPS like is currently thought its still blwoing your gpu out of the water with how devs can not only DIRECTLY talk to the gpu (they need less flops to do more n a console vs pc)

              you dont know SHIT do you

            4. 2.6 GHz? On a GPU? Naah bro. Your tdp would be way too high for any frequency of that sort. No Current GPU runs that fast.
              Your whole computer would fry from the heat. You’re probably running like… 650MHz or some shit with an AMD HD 6550.

              Possibly DirectX 11?

          1. Motherfucker, if your “PC” is “powerful”, then 1. WTF would you talk shit about buying a 360 knowing that you’re not gonna get it and its a STUPID ASS idea since you already have a PC that does the same shit and more over 360 and 2. WTF does your video quality look like you spit shit on it by mooning your ass to a screen thinking its a toilet?

            Again, you fail and exposed.

            1. am getting my 360 soon. i been try to save up money for 14 games to buy with my 360 in the summer. very cheap xbox 360 games that are a better value than nintendon’t games.

                1. some xbox 360 are at 5 bucks through 10 bucks and 13-20$. way better value than wasting my money on nintendo games that barley even entertain me, even the some free to play games on steam are entertaining me.

              1. Better value than Nintendo games?.Yesturday I went to Target for Mother’s day and Pikmin 3 is still $59.99.

              2. Ignoring the current subject an going to another will not hide the butthurt that you’ve shown as well as the fake facts you talk about.

              3. Sure you are ;)
                I heard Microsoft is soon going to drop support soon so have fun with your last gen brick consoles while we play on our Next Gen Wii U consoles.

              4. evidence that the MK8’s most beautiful game, not some stupid youtube footage. :-P It looks much better when it is filmed live!

              5. I’m tired of you moron, on your video you commented that we are being rude towards you, well let me say something: you pulled the trigger first, i mean you started calling us “social rejects” “fag” and so on, how do you expect that people could be nice with you when you are so rude with them, you don’t like nintendo, that’s good, keep your comments for yourself and if you want to be critical about nintendo good, but make constructive criticism and don’t start insulting the people who still enjoys playing with nintendo, you want people see you as a paria, but with your comments, criticism and the way you talk about us people are seeing you as a moron who doesn’t know anything about life, as a human being, please accept your mistakes and for the next time try to be nice with the others, i’ll try being polite toward you if you try to respect us.

          2. Valve Admiral GLaDOS

            You have no clear idea how less powerful that is compared to the inside of the Wii U. Stop spreading lies.

          3. I’m sorry but I have to laugh at this… HAHAHAHAHA!
            I had that APU and it isn’t anywhere near as powerful as the Wii U because I struggled with getting my games into 1080p at maxed settings.

    2. Crap, almost forgot. Ahem… PC+Wii U+3DS this gen. How could I forget my awesome 3DS XL? Funny that I forgot because I’ve been typing this whole message from my 3DS. LOL. Anyway SUPER SMASH BROS+ZELDA U+HALF LIFE 3= life complete.

    3. Newegg.com is where i get 90% of my parts for my builds. Best site for that stuff man. The sales they have are crazy just in case you didn’t already know. That said im still partial to console gaming. I think I like the exclusives and all that. To me the console gaming spirit is more fun than the PC Master Race stuff. If you can really afford it the best route for a dedicated gamer is to own all platforms including a good PC and Xbox (which most people on this site hate lol).

    4. you won’t have to spend 1500$ to buy a PC that can blow the consoles out of the water.. not by a long shot

      ~800$ will already suffice to build a gaming machine that is way beyond what the consoles can offer

      1. You’re right at that, but I have no idea how to “build” a PC. I’ve been on websites and stuff messing around with parts and I got a combination that was almost perfection for about $1200. It had a AMD Radeon HD 7990 in it. Lol superpower pc. But I’m still unsure as to what it would actually work like when they send it to me… If I have to literally build it, then I’m screwed. I am no PC master. That’s why I’ve opted to just find one pre-built. But If I find out how to make it work, I’ll build online for cheap I guess.

          1. Really?…. you got your PC off of Ebay instead of actually building it…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

            I’m sorry, for someone who claims to have a “Powerful” PC with your shitty A6 APU…. you couldn’t even build a PC for yourself?

            This is the reason why people say that you’d probably need your mommy to come round and wip your ass for you.

        1. You PC gamers spend all that money to build up a PC. And then next year a new part with better visuals comes out and you buy that too. For what? The Key board amd mouse will still be the same buttons? Screw that I rather save up to buy another new car or go on vacation and let Sony or Nintendo pay for a next generation console that I only have to buy once.

          1. Actually, PC hardware can last for a long time without needing changed out. Hell, for the most demanding games you’d only need a HD 7800 series graphics card to run it.

          2. yeah um.. no one has to do that

            last time i upgraded my PC was 2 and a half years ago and it can still stem all the games i throw at it

            my next upgrade cycle will probably start in 6-12 months, depending on the release of new GPU generations.. and i won’t have to spend any more than 600$ on it to bring it back up to speed
            not to mention that games tend to be cheaper for PC.. so i don’t really spend any more on the PC than i would on a console

            needless to say that i also own consoles

        2. Best thing to do is build the computer yourself, it really isn’t all that hard. It’s a bit like Lego… only with more expensive pieces.

          There are plenty of people online that give tutorials on how to build the perfect PC. Also, I’d recommend you just go for a GTX 760, they are pretty powerful for far less.

        3. if you’re that inexperienced with gaming PCs then i wouldn’t recommend going for a dual GPU system
          they can produce a heap of problems for inexperienced users

    1. LOL! That comment took like 3000% of the comment section! I almost thought I wouldn’t reach the bottom.

  6. when this bombs, i wounder what you nintendo fanboys say. does any play gunz 2 on steam. that game is alot fun.

      1. Next time say, “Ignoring MK8 is getting high rathings and Amazon is sold out of pre orders and the blue shell version is hard to find.” Yes I’m back!!!!! Mr. Ignoring man also known as JTZ is back! It’s great to be back!!!!!!

    1. you are so pathetic. I watched your last video and i read the comments. you get burned so easily! and what’s that bullshit about mostly kids use the words “fag”. you commented on one of the memes dedicated to you: “screw this faggot”, look this:
      http://www.generadormemes.com/meme/2if3xb
      you have been exposed again. damn, you are so idiot ROFL!!!
      “mostly kids use the word fag” and he uses the word, what an asshole hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
      it’s good to read that you accept that you are THE BLACK FAG!!

    2. No because no one cares ;)
      Probably not the same how Xbox fanboys like you said in saying, “OMG!! I play games not pixels!” when it turned out the Xbox One can’t even do 900p without being a lag fest or had lower textures.

  7. About sasori:

    “Your logic is terrible, and I hope you wake up and stop harassing intelligent people in this website and stop good debates from happening.”

    What if you guys and gals just ignore him and the like? To be honest it’s kind of entertaining to follow your pointless arguments, but isn’t it more or less waste of time and energy?

    When you respond to his trolling you only fuel the fire and kind of let him win. I guess you know this so i’m reminding you.

    Entertaining yes but also kind of ruining the site :)

    PS. Wii U will rock this world i say. Iwata and Reggie have the bombs ready for launch :D

    1. Well there are times we should ignore idiots, but sometimes an idiot has so much of an ego that just because no one is replying to them they think they are right and they will continue to be a brainless noob, and that is the time where you will get fed up and tell them to shut the fuck up, and if that doesn’t work you get more people who are also fed to get him to shut the fuck up until he does. Also this guy isn’t trolling, he actually is serious.

      P.S. Some of us come from Encyclopedia Dramatica to find lol cows, and Sasori is a gold mine.

    2. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

      What Mike said. People like sasori just have to be ridiculed or otherwise he won’t stop. Sad thing is, he still won’t stop. He’s quite the persistent little bug. Just like racists & homophobes just won’t ever stop. But we have to stand up to them or they’ll get a big head & start thinking they can do more than just talk. And that just can’t happen.

  8. I think something was lost in translation.

    “Pushed the hardware to its limits”
    “Still lots of future potential”

    Uhhh….. yeah, sure thing.

  9. Psssh, bullshit! Wii U has more power, even moreso than the beauty of Mario Kart 8. I hope to play with power like my dad did in the 80’s! GO WII U!

  10. Since Sickr won’t ban sasori, I guess it’s okay to do this:

    About sasori:

    “Your logic is terrible, and I hope you wake up and stop harassing intelligent people in this website and stop good debates from happening.”

    What if you guys and gals just ignore him and the like? To be honest it’s kind of entertaining to follow your pointless arguments, but isn’t it more or less waste of time and energy?

    When you respond to his trolling you only fuel the fire and kind of let him win. I guess you know this so i’m reminding you.

    Entertaining yes but also kind of ruining the site :)

    PS. Wii U will rock this world i say. Iwata and Reggie have the bombs ready for launch :D

    –By oceanic_feeling

  11. There so much talk about which console has the best graphics or the best “next-gen” hardware, but for me none of that really matters. When I boil everything down, I reach the truth: Nintendo makes fun games. That’s all there really is. The gaming experiences provided by Nintendo over the years have given me more fun than other other consoles, and it remains the same with Wii U.

    1. and he says: “mostly kids use the word fag” and he uses that word, look:
      http://www.generadormemes.com/meme/2if3xb
      people burns him one time, 2 times, 3 times and if he does not get burned, people always look for a way to bring the fire over him. the guy is a total dork. no need to wonder if he does have coal in his anus.
      the xbutt wannabe got xbutt-hurt, LOL

        1. He always look for an excuse to make people see the wii u as garbage but he’s turning himself as a laughingstock, sasori need a pair of pants because those diapers he uses are full of shit

    2. Wow, it has left it’s cave ! Sasori please do us a favor and just bury yourself somewhere where no one will find you.

    3. “Stupid dogs…”
      You know that dog was demanding this guy to shut up.
      And even animal hater…
      I bet he’s still crying because the XBOne has less graphics than real life.

  12. “We pushed the WiiU to its limits…… BUUUT there’s still a lot of potential left of course! *awkward laughing”
    That’s what that statement sounds like to me. Saying that they’ve pushed it to its limits and then saying that there’s still lots of potential left in the very next sentence doesn’t sound too credible tbh. It’s literally a contradiction.

    1. Well to be honest, this is Nintendo here.
      The hardware has still not been fully unlocked so really he’s right, the Wii U still has some power left for more things.

    2. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

      We also have to take into a account this might be a bad translation. Not every magazine & website has the best, highest paid translators.

  13. I never doubt the potential of the wii U I knew its super powerful and this is just the beginning I’m happy that I own the wii U I really enjoy it a lot ;) thanks nintendo!!!

  14. Nintendo Commander Quadraxis

    The only reason to why Xbot games and PS games even sell the amount they do is not because they are great games…

    It’s because they are cheap…

    Like let’s say all the new games that have come out the last 6 months…

    In almost every store and online store, these games have already been reduced in price by atleast 50% after barely 2 months…

    1. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

      That does happen a lot with games for the Playsations & Xboxes. Nintendo games usually take 6 months to years before they lower in price… and they still sell without the price cut!

  15. ok guys can you give me a tip maybe I did something wrong :/ so I went to best buy and pre ordered Mario kart 8 but no gas card, I asked about, but they didn’t know what I was talking about answer please.

  16. To everybody who keeps calling the Wii U “last generation”. Even if it was, WHO CARES? Last generation was pretty cool. So was the generation before that (and so on). Heck, even the NES and Super NES is still cool and fun. So what’s your point? It’s all about the games, and how fun they are. And anyone who can look at Mario Kart 8 etc. and make fun of the Wii U’s lack of power needs to make an appointment with a psychiatrist.

  17. This game is gorgeous, im not going to lie,unlike that BITCH FAGGOT

    Gay Commander

    I will be playing that game on the 30th and give my ps4 a break.

    By the way I’m not the type to comment on other males looks

    But damn people

    Who let this monkey Sasori out the zoo and roam the streets recording his ugly self

  18. it looks good but not for example better than gran turismo for ps3. which obviously means wii u is more last gen in terms of graphics, what was expected.

    1. Gran Turismo for the PS3 looks bad, if you are looking gamepley, stop watch CGI animation, which allows Sony is charging, it’s fake, look and compare gamelpey!

  19. I had the honor of playing Mario Kart 8 at a private event this weekend and seeing it in person is so different than watching it on youtube. It is a gorgeous looking game. Yeah it looks beautiful streaming it at 30fps on the internet but seeing it run on the console in front of you really shows how capable the wii u is. So even hearing how there’s still a lot of potential left makes me excited for future releases.

  20. Is it only me that looks at ‘realistic graphics’ and think they just make it far more obvious how far away from realism games are. The people and places just look a little plastic compared to real life. Better to take an art style and own it. Still think Super Mario Galaxy was one of the best looking games last gen despite lack of HD graphics.

  21. Good programmers can achieve a lot! The demand for more processing power as a substitute for a bad and inefficient code is just shit…

  22. Pushing it to it’s limits and maxing it out are different.
    Like lifting weights; if you push to your limit, you aren’t maxed out until you can’t push further later on. Maxing out is whenever the limit has been hit and no more can be pushed.

    The Wii U is just bulking up now. There is more power in there.

    1. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

      Sadly, idiots like sasori only see & hear what they want to hear from this article.

    1. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

      Like Wildman a few comments up said, “Pushing it to it’s limits and maxing it out are different. Like lifting weights; if you push to your limit, you aren’t maxed out until you can’t push further later on. Maxing out is whenever the limit has been hit and no more can be pushed.”

      1. yeah I read that one and I don’t disagree with what you are saying. Nevertheless do you really think people (don’t want to name) will think that way when it can also be interpreted the wii has been maxed out? As I was trying to say bad PR from the director which can be explain by he fact English is not his mother tongue

  23. just wanted to add, I think or I have the feeling it probably his English must not be proficient and cause this statement or something was lost in the translation. Cause I have the feeling he intended to say: “we give all we got and make sure the game use the Wii U potential as its best.” again that a personal point of view

  24. Am I missing something here? Hasn’t it already been announced that the XBoxOne and PS4 were released with all their power available from day one so developers can do what they want with them? I read an article that was attached to some comments from past posts about how the WiiU still had a good amount of power locked away for future release just like most consoles have done in the past. “Pushed to the limits” is just the limits that are available to the developer at this point in time. When Zelda or HOPEFULLY a new Metroid is released a few years down the line, then the WiiU should be fully unlocked by that point and we will get true “pushed to the limits” development on the console. I’m not gonna go losing my mind over a comment like this when we already know that there’s much higher potential after the future updates years away

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    1. Tallon Ridley XIII: Kalas

      They said they pushed the limits, not that they maxed out at the limits. Big difference.

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