Mario Kart 8 pushes Wii U to the limit?

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Pemalite said:

curl-6 said:
Of course it's not hitting its limit; it's too early in the system's life.

He even says in his comment: "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."

By 2016 we'll have seen Wii U games that are a clear step above MK8 graphically.

It's easy to push a system to it's complete and utter limit.
You can't make the hardware "do more" than it's actually capable of.

However, on the software side, there is LOTS of wiggle room, the WiiU is a new system with different strengths and weakness's compared to other machines and it will take awhile for game engines to match those nuances.

The wiggle room is what I'm talking about when I refer to its limit; not just throwing raw code at a machine until it chokes, but fully optimizing and utilising all its components to get the best possible results.

I expect future games like Art of Balance, F.A.S.T. Racing Neo, and Monolith's Soft's X (as well as other games we don't know about yet) to exceed the bar being set by MK8.