Wii U's main graphical disadvantage is the lack of a studio like Naughty Dog or Santa Monica

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Pfft...Nintendo has plenty of studios with just as much talent/capability as Naughty Dog and others. Retro, EAD Tokyo, Monolith Soft and the Zelda team are all more than capable of pushing the Wii U to its limits. Thing is...they don't really NEED to do that yet. This holiday is about getting solid games out to gain momentum and improve the Wii U library and its sales as a result of that. Next years games are all a step UP graphically...as one would expect. And the same thing will happen the following year. Uncharted 1 WASN'T very impressive, and Uncharted 2 came out in 2009...3 years after the PS3 launch. So, we should be looking for Nintendo to start pushing the Wii U's capabilities graphically to new levels starting with the 2015 crop of games. It's VERY likely that Retro will work on Metroid or Star Fox after DK...EAD Tokyo have already hinted that they may work on another 3D single-player Mario game a'la Galaxy after 3D World...and the Zelda team already has the NEW Zelda game will into development. Obviously the Wii U is not as powerful as Xbone/PS4 and so it will NEVER achieve the levels that those two systems can graphically...but to imply that Nintendo doesn't have studios capable of pushing its own hardware to the max is just silly.