Do you think Mario Kart WiiU will have local multiplayer with up to 6 players?

[JEMC]

Nintendo said that the cost of adding the second gamepad was having the fps dropped by half and while Mario Kart isn't very graphics intensive that's still a lot of pixels.

Unless they find a way to avoid that performance hit and run the game at 30fps for all the 6 players then they will go with only 5.