It isn't about how the game feels, its about graphics and in the racing game genre itself both FH2 on XB1 and Driveclub look much better than MK8 in terms of graphics.

I haven't even mentioned the games from other genres which look better. Even on Wii U, Bayonetta 2 and SSB (from what I've seen online) look better.

The only point here is that beauty is subjective & has nothing to do with technique.

Most of the gamer category I call "hardlycore" fail to see that... while technique helps you doing your stuff, it's empty without creativity, copying reality is not very creative, all you need is computing power...

I understand that MK8 is lacking some effects, AA & that it is not the most graphically technical game ever made, but there is more to the visual enjoyment of a game than what effects, pixels, shaders, poly-count, you can cram in 1 frame. The fluidity (FPS), camera angles, animations, details, art direction contribute to make a virtual universe plausible & belivable, there starts a bit of the magic of a videogame when you can immerse in it & have fun with it, lots of 16bits era games managed to do that without Uncharted quality graphics.

If you prefer other games for their graphics, that's quite all right, it's called taste, as long as your point of view is not the only 1 acceptable, you are entitled to your own personnal opinion. Myself I prefer Battlefield3 graphics over Battlefield4, despite knowing that the last one is more advanced from a technical point of view, in the end I don't like it.

What bothers me is this hive mentality that most of "hardlycore gamers" show, 0 tolerance for what is not the kind of games they worship & if it comes from Nintendo, you know that emasculating game making company, then they cry "burn the witches" & go apeshit how Nintendo should die or go 3rd-party because they are an insult to gamers... or something like that.

Enjoy whaterver games you like, but not for the wrong reasons, enjoy them for you, without minding what others think or want you to think, it infuriates me when I read narrow minded ill-logic, but in the end, what's left is sadness.

it looks nice as cartoony visuals its extremely coloutful but it dont make Wiiu any better if thats what people are thinking!!!

"Best looking" doesn't just mean pure graphical horsepower. Saying so is very superficial.

MK8 plays the smoothest and looks the most pleasing while doing so. Driveclub and Forza may have better "graphics" but do they look the best while playing? Not really. MK8 is smoother (60fps), and looks better at what it does, since it is not trying to be photorealistic.