I got my Wii U last night and after too much technical stuff, I was finally able to play MK8.

And I must say Nintendo made a very bad job in presenting the game. First course, first zoom in on the players - tons of jaggies. So many jaggies in fact that it must be noticeable for anyone. And the funny thing about that? The most jaggies you will see in the entire game (at least the time I have played). So the first impression was a bit meh and Nintendo screwed that one up.

Then the game was quite nice looking on my TV. But the true revelation came when I switched to off-TV-play (dont want to miss any biting attacks ever again in futbol, it is so much fun!). When I started playing on the Pad, the games visuals blew me away. Stunning. Gorgeous. No jaggies.

I know, there are two factors in the equation: screen resolution (lower on the pad) and screen size (my TV is 46'', the pad not as big). But I had the feeling that the graphics got optimized for the pad, as they were perfect on it.

Your thoughts.

Did you try going into the system settings and changing the resolution?

I play it on my 1080p monitor and while there are jaggies, I don't seem to mind it that much since most of the time, we are moving quite fast and I actually prefer playing on my Monitor rather than my gamepad cause to me, My monitor gives me much better visuals such as contrast, color and etc than the gamepad can and I can tweak my monitor's settings a lotttt further than I can on the gamepad.. I did also play it on my friend's 55 inch 1080p LED TV made by Samsung and it also looked great since the whole game is full of soo much god damn color that me and my friends loved the visuals

i was using the gamepad to play it for the first week it came out then i bought a tv because i knew my tv sucked dick.
it looks alot better now and way bette than on the gamepad. i have 28" Vizio 1080p and it just looks amazing. the colors are so much better on tv than on the Gamepad

Seems like I need to give it another try / more time on my TV. However, the pad, due to its lower res etc. seems to smoothe the image quite nicely, which gives it imo a really nice cartoony quality.

It looks as good on my TV as it does on the gamepad... probably better on TV, I have a Samsung Smart TV,  UE48HU7500 4K Ultra 3D.

Everything looks better on the pad.

55inch tv no issues. Game looks great.

When playing on the pad, the internally rendered 720p image is compressed and sent in 480p, buying just enough free anti-aliasing in the process to eliminate jaggies.

The resolution isn't as high, and the colors can look a little washed out, but generally 3D games look pretty darn good on the gamepad.

Thanks. This sounds like the effect I have seen. And yes, the colours are a bit more washed out, but that gives the Wii U that nice "next gen" edge ;)