Mario Kart 8 pushes Wii U to the limit?

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Putin said:

curl-6 said:

GT5/6 do indeed have some very good looking premium cars, I was simply pointing out that they can also be held up to scrutiny in the graphics department; I don't agree that they slam dunk MK8.

He was pointing out the graphic capabilities, not quality of the content. If you take 12 premium cars, on some great looking track, like london or something, it will be much more challenging graphics-wise. Each premium car in GT6 have same amount of polygons, as all carts in MK8 race(roughly speaking)...

MK is just flashy and colorfull, with good lightning and reflect vfx.

Source?

And GT5 and 6, just by nature of the system they're on, have memory footprints smaller than 500MB. MK8 would have to use less than half Wii U's memory not be more intensive in this regard. Not to mention they'd have to completely neglect the DX10/11 features the Wii U GPU is confirmed to have.

If Nintendo's aim was to make the prettiest kart racer they could, I can't see any reason for them to use less than half the available RAM and none of the GPU's more modern abilities.