Yeah that's the problem without being able to unlock stuff you could basically just do that in Mario Kart Wii by telling it in the rules to last 4 races.

That's actually pretty cool too! I hope there is the all tour cup option (?) like in double dash where you go through all the tracks in the game and it counts up the score.

no graphical reductions were mentioned.

Yeah you're right can't find anything about graphical reductions. I think i'm just counter-balancing the OP.

Honestly whether you can unlock stuff is not that important as it'll soon become irrelevant anyway once you get everything. What matters is that you can play in Gran Prixs with your friends!

So because they didnt say they wouldnt you automaticlly think thats confirmation? Thats not how this planet works. LOL

But to answer your question Becasue they are NINTENDO. THey dont need to people will buy the game anyway, so why go hard? Might as well save time and money and give people what they expect no more no less. 3rd party games dont have that luxury with a couple of rare exceptions, for the most part they have to go that extra mile to be noticed. Case in point NSMB lets not pretend they went hard for that.

They did!? Oh, thank God! That was one of my major gripes with MKWii. That, and the overabundance of items.

OT: That'd be wicked, but I dunno if the Wii U would be able to handle that many players while maintaining a solid 30fps.

i was kinda kind expecting, but not anymore. With the answers that i got, all that i will do is vanish with my hopes and be happy with what was already revealed, wich is a lot of reasons to be happy about

Yes but Sonic doesn't come close to using half of a quarter of the Wii U's power, unlike Mario Kart 8.

So because Mario Kart 8 is so much more demanding than Sonic AS, it's a bit normal that the same couldn't be achieved.