Racing games are totally about local multiplayer. So the home-console is the easy answer.

Never was able to get into racing on F-Zero with friends like I can with Mario Kart.  I believe the learning curve is a little rougher (of course) with F-Zero.  So it was basically like playing Smash against a noob with items turned off.  They didn't really stand a chance at beating me in F-Zero X (never played GX multiplayer).  Mario Kart allows for the inexperienced and experienced to play together due to the items.  Mainly just "skill" with F-Zero.

Not to mention the potential combination between local and online multiplayer! The 3DS struggled to get eight players online in Mario Kart 7, so F-Zero should definitely stay away from that system, in my opinion.

You're right, Mario Kart is easier for newbieas to get into the game. But if you have friends with some experience in the games, you also can play F-Zero. Racing against the computer is lame in comparison and only useful to train to avoid being beaten so badly as the last time.

Some of my friends moved away. It could be awesome, if I gather 3 friends in my living room and we all play against some more that are some 100 kilometers away. Yes!

i think you should take the best looking xbox 360 release games and not the worst because i think people also look at the best wii u release games to compare them with actual games. otherwise you could even take 360/ps3 games from 2011 or 2012 which still don't look much better.

i would look at pgr3 and such games and compare them with xbox games and then you see there was already a big difference at release in some games.

you should also mention that even if the 360 or ps3 launch games didn't have graphical improvements except the resolution, that this alone was much more to calculate for the console.

so, i think we will get nice looking games on wii u, not only artistical, also in raw graphical aspects better than every ps3/360 game but i still think the launch games we know about compared to 360/ps3 games are worse graphically as it was with 360 games compared to xbox games.

Gun was awesome but a bit too short, and wow Tony Hawk... those were good times, my favorite has always been Pro Skater 4 followed by ProS 2 i remenber having a blast playing with friends on the Psone, then i got away from the series until i finally played undergroud, they were good but it just didn't ''feel the same'' to me, i still have my copy of Pro Skater 4 just no one to play with. And about Wii U what can i say, i've been separated from nintendo for 2 generations, never played Wind waker, TP or Skyward Sword among other games, i'm super excited for the Wii U specially for Zelda, my last game (except for the ds ones) was Majora's Mask and i just can't wait to see what they do on the Wii U.

Solid evidence with pictures and all. Too bad it'll fall on deaf ears. As we all know fanboys are the worst and will in fact see better graphics on their favorite console than is possible for the machine to actually show. It's kind of like new moms. They really, really do think that their babies are the cutest "Smell him! Doesn't he smell lovely? He smell lovely? And just look at him? Isn't he the cutest? He's the cutest. Everrr." That's fanboys for ya! Their reasoning and logic has gone missing, being exchanged for some sort of hormonal-brainwashing!

Developing a game without updated tools, while you have a limited budget and working on a compressed schedule to meet a hard deadline will rarely result in the most advanced games.

The main exception I can think of is Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2. This title was particularly visually strong because Factor 5 was approached ahead of the Gamecube's initial reveal to generate a tech demo using their Rogue Squadron engine, and the tools received substantial updates prior to beginning development of the game.

Wait for MariUUUU Kart. The back of Toad's head will never have looked rounder!