d21lewis on 13 May 2014
| DevilRising said: Nintendo said that Mario 64 pushed the N64 hardware to near it's limits too. And it probably did. Yet, look what they and other developers accomplished later on. There will be far more impressive games (visually and otherwise) on Wii U than MK8, bank on it. |
Nah. I remember they said Wave Race pushed it to like 80% of its limits. It was in an issue of EGM back in the day. They were saying that other games would push it further. Some games did, thanks to some clever tricks (Expansion Pak, better compression techniques) but after the N64 finished and the Gamecube was coming out, there was an interview where some guy (the interviewer, I imagine) said something like "We expected a large leap in performance over Super Mario 64 but that never really happened, did it?"
Of course, I disagree. A lot of N64 games looked better. I think Conker alone was amazing, as was the Rogue Squadron/Battle for Naboo titles. I don't know. I'm just rambling now. I forgot the point of this post.
