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Forums - Nintendo - Mario Kart 8 looks fantastic! Now market the f#¢k out of it!

Hibern81 on 04 April 2014
Soleron said:
Einsam_Delphin said:

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And we can't be positive about the game because?

If I ever get a Wii U, I will certainly be picking this game up. I do like it. But I'm struggling to understand what's triggering this level of reaction. Did no one expect the graphics improvement?

I'm having trouble understanding why it seems to be bothering you so much that people are hyped for it. Cut us some slack. It's not like us Wii U owners get to get excited all the time.



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the2real4mafol on 04 April 2014

I think they forgot how to advertise, shame really as this could get Wii U out there.



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mii-gamer on 04 April 2014

You took those words out of my mouth - i said the exact same thing two days ago. Nintendo you better market the fuck out of mario kart 8 - i'd serious punch a baby if you don't.



Lonely_Dolphin on 04 April 2014

Well I've been doing my part to advertise the game! I'm always going on about it in Animal Crossing New Leaf, and I even changed my nickname to MarioKart8 when I play MK7 online.



the_dengle on 04 April 2014

Quite a few people are overlooking the fact that it maintains 60 fps with two-player splitscreen. Considering the recent trend of games eschewing splitscreen multiplayer entirely, I think this is significant.



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curl-6 on 04 April 2014
bonzobanana said:

Are people really using Mario kart to second guess the power of the wii u. I mean the wii had a pretty respectable version of mario kart and that had a gpu of 12 gflops. Cartoon graphics are always easier to produce than realistic graphics. We have seen so many wii u games that have failed to achieve realistic graphics to the same standard as 360 or PS3.

It's like zelda windwaker on gamecube. An uprezed version on wii u still looks pretty respectable but you take a gamecube first person shooter and uprez that on wii u people would be laughing their heads off at wii u performance.

People seem to confuse artistically beautiful games with technically impressive games a lot of the time.

Don't get me wrong the new Mario kart looks brilliant but what is it actually achieving on screen.

Destructoid are stating its confirmed to run in 720p so its hardly that impressive. Although again I don't see why such a game with cartoon graphics, with low cpu requirements and 32MB of embedded high speed memory can't run this at 1080p.

http://playeressence.com/mario-kart-8-is-stunning-and-fierce-in-hd-says-destructoid-confirmed-to-run-in-60fps-720p/

If you want to compare to PS3/360, let's do apples vs apples and look at Modnation Racers, LBP Kart, and the PS3/360 versions of the Sonic Racing games. Mario Kart 8 blows them away graphically.



RazorDragon on 04 April 2014
curl-6 said:
bonzobanana said:

Are people really using Mario kart to second guess the power of the wii u. I mean the wii had a pretty respectable version of mario kart and that had a gpu of 12 gflops. Cartoon graphics are always easier to produce than realistic graphics. We have seen so many wii u games that have failed to achieve realistic graphics to the same standard as 360 or PS3.

It's like zelda windwaker on gamecube. An uprezed version on wii u still looks pretty respectable but you take a gamecube first person shooter and uprez that on wii u people would be laughing their heads off at wii u performance.

People seem to confuse artistically beautiful games with technically impressive games a lot of the time.

Don't get me wrong the new Mario kart looks brilliant but what is it actually achieving on screen.

Destructoid are stating its confirmed to run in 720p so its hardly that impressive. Although again I don't see why such a game with cartoon graphics, with low cpu requirements and 32MB of embedded high speed memory can't run this at 1080p.

http://playeressence.com/mario-kart-8-is-stunning-and-fierce-in-hd-says-destructoid-confirmed-to-run-in-60fps-720p/

If you want to compare to PS3/360, let's do apples vs apples and look at Modnation Racers, LBP Kart, and the PS3/360 versions of the Sonic Racing games. Mario Kart 8 blows them away graphically.


Also while running at 60FPS and native 720p. Sonic Racing, which IMO looks the closest, couldn't even run at native 720p and had a variable resolution while running at 30FPS.



curl-6 on 04 April 2014
RazorDragon said:
curl-6 said:
bonzobanana said:

Are people really using Mario kart to second guess the power of the wii u. I mean the wii had a pretty respectable version of mario kart and that had a gpu of 12 gflops. Cartoon graphics are always easier to produce than realistic graphics. We have seen so many wii u games that have failed to achieve realistic graphics to the same standard as 360 or PS3.

It's like zelda windwaker on gamecube. An uprezed version on wii u still looks pretty respectable but you take a gamecube first person shooter and uprez that on wii u people would be laughing their heads off at wii u performance.

People seem to confuse artistically beautiful games with technically impressive games a lot of the time.

Don't get me wrong the new Mario kart looks brilliant but what is it actually achieving on screen.

Destructoid are stating its confirmed to run in 720p so its hardly that impressive. Although again I don't see why such a game with cartoon graphics, with low cpu requirements and 32MB of embedded high speed memory can't run this at 1080p.

http://playeressence.com/mario-kart-8-is-stunning-and-fierce-in-hd-says-destructoid-confirmed-to-run-in-60fps-720p/

If you want to compare to PS3/360, let's do apples vs apples and look at Modnation Racers, LBP Kart, and the PS3/360 versions of the Sonic Racing games. Mario Kart 8 blows them away graphically.


Also while running at 60FPS and native 720p. Sonic Racing, which IMO looks the closest, couldn't even run at native 720p and had a variable resolution while running at 30FPS.

And rampant screen tearing to boot.



fatslob-:O on 04 April 2014
curl-6 said:
bonzobanana said:

Are people really using Mario kart to second guess the power of the wii u. I mean the wii had a pretty respectable version of mario kart and that had a gpu of 12 gflops. Cartoon graphics are always easier to produce than realistic graphics. We have seen so many wii u games that have failed to achieve realistic graphics to the same standard as 360 or PS3.

It's like zelda windwaker on gamecube. An uprezed version on wii u still looks pretty respectable but you take a gamecube first person shooter and uprez that on wii u people would be laughing their heads off at wii u performance.

People seem to confuse artistically beautiful games with technically impressive games a lot of the time.

Don't get me wrong the new Mario kart looks brilliant but what is it actually achieving on screen.

Destructoid are stating its confirmed to run in 720p so its hardly that impressive. Although again I don't see why such a game with cartoon graphics, with low cpu requirements and 32MB of embedded high speed memory can't run this at 1080p.

http://playeressence.com/mario-kart-8-is-stunning-and-fierce-in-hd-says-destructoid-confirmed-to-run-in-60fps-720p/

If you want to compare to PS3/360, let's do apples vs apples and look at Modnation Racers, LBP Kart, and the PS3/360 versions of the Sonic Racing games. Mario Kart 8 blows them away graphically.

Wasn't MK8 supposed to run at 1080p ? ;P



curl-6 on 04 April 2014
fatslob-:O said:
curl-6 said:
bonzobanana said:

Are people really using Mario kart to second guess the power of the wii u. I mean the wii had a pretty respectable version of mario kart and that had a gpu of 12 gflops. Cartoon graphics are always easier to produce than realistic graphics. We have seen so many wii u games that have failed to achieve realistic graphics to the same standard as 360 or PS3.

It's like zelda windwaker on gamecube. An uprezed version on wii u still looks pretty respectable but you take a gamecube first person shooter and uprez that on wii u people would be laughing their heads off at wii u performance.

People seem to confuse artistically beautiful games with technically impressive games a lot of the time.

Don't get me wrong the new Mario kart looks brilliant but what is it actually achieving on screen.

Destructoid are stating its confirmed to run in 720p so its hardly that impressive. Although again I don't see why such a game with cartoon graphics, with low cpu requirements and 32MB of embedded high speed memory can't run this at 1080p.

http://playeressence.com/mario-kart-8-is-stunning-and-fierce-in-hd-says-destructoid-confirmed-to-run-in-60fps-720p/

If you want to compare to PS3/360, let's do apples vs apples and look at Modnation Racers, LBP Kart, and the PS3/360 versions of the Sonic Racing games. Mario Kart 8 blows them away graphically.

Wasn't MK8 supposed to run at 1080p ? ;P

No, it wasn't. It was clearly going to be a 720p title from the beginning, just like 3D World, Tropical Freeze, etc. 

Nintendo have shown that they prefer to target v-sync'd 60fps at 720p. 1080p was only ever wild, illogical speculation.