Digital Foundry confirms MK8 720p, No AA

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Sharu said:

Putin said:

So it safe for me to say that mario kart is a corridor with transparent walls. Right?

Anyway, answer the question, how can you judge distance view in a city race?

Or what does geometry have to do with that, since MK doesn't have any gravitational real-time physics?

1. Right.
2. Its not me who put game screenshots as a proof in some arguing. I'm just continue playing his game.
3. Level geometry is very important if you want to judge power of a console, that's obvious. Or we all be just playing extra detailed cars on empty tracks with static boxes around and 2d trees. 
4. It seems you didn't play any Mario Kart, since all of them have some realtime physics. Its just arcade style, not realistic ones. And thats OK, since MK is a arcade racer and not a sym.

Are you mixing up real time physics with reactive animations?

Real time physics is when the necessary math required is calculated in real time to generated the effect needed to accurately proceed the cause (very few games actually use this). What MK8 uses are essentially reactive animations, where the game has pre-set animations that go off when certain parameters are met.

Not that it matters in the slightest, the end result is pretty much identical in MK8. The only difference is pre-set decisions are a lot simpler to run, so if your game doesn't have a large enough number of possible variants in the parameters, they are the best option to go with. It may use real time calculations for some things (most games do), but having using real time physics for everything would frankly be a waist of resources.

Soft body physics beat the shit out of everything though ;D Too bad they are so rarley used D: