It's a clear genrational leap... from the Wii. Or are you really meaning a two-generational leap, going beyond 360/PS3? Such a feat is usually reserved for Duke Nukem, so that's not necessarily a reasonable expectation if we are to assume that Nintendo is remotely smart.

In all likelihood, Pikmin 3 did not begin full development until 2010 (it started pre-production in 2008) and by that time Nintendo may have already decided to move the project to Wii U. That would explain why Nintendo kept quiet about it for so long, and why we haven't seen any Wii version screenshots, unlike Kameo on Xbox.

Moreover, Pikmin 3 is a very nice-looking game. Have you seen any of the screenshots recently? "Poor visuals" my ass.

Why doesn't Pikmin have a clear generational leap? Because there is no need to improve graphics for the game beyond its current level ...

Looking at the following games, please tell me which one is showing that it is suffering from a lack of processing power:

Pikmin 3:

You need to get used to the fact that 90% of games released from this point forward will probably see no significant graphical improvements over what was possible on the HD consoles because it is meaningless to the game, remarkably expensive, and time consuming.

It certainly is a leap from the Wii, but we're talking about a leap from PS360 here. Different things. The rest of your post is speculation  

I know about your argument with happysquirrel. I was accusing you of doing this before. I guess I shouldn't have responsed to your and happysquirrel's post tree. That's why you think I'm accusing you of doing this in your argument with happysquirrel. What I am doing though is accusing you of cherry picking. Why not compare late gen Xbox to 360 launch games instead of a unreleased Xbox game to 360 launch game.

Thanks for making your argument completely invalid then. You are comparing a unreleased Xbox game(Kameo for Xbox) to a fully released and upgraded Xbox 360 game(Kameo for 360). You are clearly cherry picking to prove the Xbox to 360 was a obvious generational leap. You are also forgetting the leap between the two was very large, and the improvement in resolution. The WiiU has none of those advantages so why would the launch games look signicantly better than late gen 360 games? On top of all of that those games were made for 360 and ported to WiiU.

I only mean to point out the obvious differneces between the circumstances behind Kameo and Pikmin 3's development stages. I know that Pikmin 3 was announced way, way back, and that the title only had a small team over the early portions of development (straight from Miyamoto's mouth). It had to start full development in 2010, as the full team is composed of people involved in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I also know that Miyamoto was considering Pikmin 3 for Wii U as early as 2009, when he referenced Pikmin as an ideal candiate for the hyptothetical "Wii HD". Finally, we know that Pikmin 3 will make use of the Wii MotionPlus as its primary control method, so we can conclude that the project still retains at least some of the direction behind the original Wii version.

In contrast, Kameo was well into development when it made the jump to 360. After all, we do have screens of the Xbox version. Pikmin 3 wasn't likely as far into development as Kameo when it was switched to Wii U. As such, Kameo on 360 was likely a graphically reworked version, while Pikmin 3 was almost completely built from the ground-up for Wii U. As for why it isn't a clear step up from games on PS3 and 360, I believe the point of having it on the Wii U was really just to have Pikmin in HD (going back to Miyamoto's comments). And I think Nintendo achieved that goal.

I only mean to point out the obvious differneces between the circumstances behind Kameo and Pikmin 3's development stages. I know that Pikmin 3 was announced way, way back, and that the title only had a small team over the early portions of development (straight from Miyamoto's mouth). It had to start full development in 2010, as the full team is composed of people involved in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I also know that Miyamoto was considering Pikmin 3 for Wii U as early as 2009, when he referenced Pikmin as an ideal candiate for the hyptothetical "Wii HD". Finally, we know that Pikmin 3 will make use of the Wii MotionPlus as its primary control method, so we can conclude that the project still retains at least some of the direction behind the original Wii version.

In contrast, Kameo was well into development when it made the jump to 360. After all, we do have screens of the Xbox version. Pikmin 3 wasn't likely as far into development as Kameo when it was switched to Wii U. As such, Kameo on 360 was likely a graphically reworked version, while Pikmin 3 was almost completely built from the ground-up for Wii U. As for why it isn't a clear step up from games on PS3 and 360, I believe the point of having it on the Wii U was really just to have Pikmin in HD (going back to Miyamoto's comments). And I think Nintendo achieved that goal.