I'm pretty curious about these claimed pop-in and framerate issues, so I started looking for information from the people who are playing the pirated version of the game.
Some guy at neogaf has been playing the 360 version, here are some quotes of his:
"There are some technical issues here and there, normally when you are driving fast and you crash there is some pop up here and there, and it´s easily noticeable but really, who cares, the city is awesomely big."
"yeah, pop ups are frequent if you go really fast on the cars and crash onto something, but they are not cars, people or buildings. They are normally stairs (the ones attached at the buildings), windows textures and small things like that. The trees are the worst in my opinion but there are meaningless to the game IMO, it´s so full of everything that you gotta pay the price."
"No framerate issues. Not one. And I been chased by 3/4 police cars + helicopter + rain + the other cars + pedestrians so it looks like you will have to really put 2 or 3 explosions and swat and 20 cars for it to get a framerate drop. It really is very stable."
So far, it's not looking bad to me.
My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957
