Splatoon isn't a masterpiece and is per defenition not the best looking tps not even close. Playstation is a toy brand as well, yet they make cartoony and realistic looking games, as making experiences like Uncharted, TLOU instead of fun games only.

The GameCube was more powerful but it's games never got close to shadow of the clossus, GT 4 or God of war 2. 

Splatoon isn't a masterpiece and is per defenition not the best looking tps not even close. Playstation is a toy brand as well, yet they make cartoony and realistic looking games, as making experiences like Uncharted, TLOU instead of fun games only.

The GameCube was more powerful but it's games never got close to shadow of the clossus, GT 4 or God of war 2. 

Devil's third took a year to barely improve, mario 3d world did not get a graphics update, they simply showed the plain and uninteresting levels when they annouced it, SMTxFE was announced with a prerendered video so I don't know how you a comparing those graphics.

Why not look at the watch dogs downgrade controversy, or xenoblade X downgrade if you want to see visual downgrades since announcement.

I in no way refered to the hardware as a limiting factor. I will refer to time as a limiting factor. This is why fast racing neo looks amazing compared to other indie games, and star fox looks like garbage compared to retail games (wii u retail games included). It's not the art direction, it's the quick workaround to not having to delay the game, which we know won't happen seeing as how fans are already pissed zelda was delayed.

Miyamoto can have his opinions, but like everyother professional in the industry, he has to keep them to himself. Otherwise he looks immature and like a sore (given the context of a bad e3 and poor starfox graphics). Unless you were perfectly content with other developers calling the wii u hardware shit, you seem to be portraying a double standard here

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/06/09/wii-u-exclusive-shin-megami-tensei-x-fire-emblem-gets-new-screenshots-shows-improved-textures/

A showcase of clear graphical improvement in Shin Megami Tensei. Will post a mario 3D world when I get out of work.

Xenoblade X was only a downgrade from the second video. Still a massive upgrade from the first, and even improved from the third onward.

I can disagree with devs, but they have every right to say what they want.

Let's assume those games have improved by a "significant amount." Does starfox fall under harsher circumstances and a small time frame compared to those games, most definitely. So is it reasonable to assume that starfox won't receive the same upgrade. Yes, yes it does. Given that it looks like a 2006 game now, even if it there is an upgrade, there is no way that it would match other wii u game graphics in such a short time frame (wii u games aren't really that graphically impressive to begin with). Could you then justify pricing starfox at $60? Could you honestly say that Nintendo isn't taking massive shortcuts for the sake of business and not customer satisfaction? It seems obvious that Miyamoto wants to distract people from that train of thought by downplaying other games.

Again, devs have every right to say what they want, but you can't expect them to not recieve backlash for what they say. Miyamoto being legendary in the past does not excuse him from looking like a childish sore loser after downplaying other games. He should have just been professional and kept his thoughts to himself, but instead he chose to whine about other games despite the fact that his games need the most work

True, but I think the ground work is laid and looks fine. They just need to really add more effects, and place some more enemies on the field so it doesn't feel barren. 

A $60 price tag would depend on a LOT of factors, graphics would be so far down that list it would be practically insignificant. Online modes, campaign completion time, these far outweigh what it looks like in development. 

You clearly never played Metroid Prime 2: echoes, F-Zero GX, Resident Evil 4, Star Fox: adventures, Star Wars Rogue Squadron III, Wind Waker or Twilight Princess.

And SOTC is your argument? That world was empty as fuck.

The same way you never played SOTC, GT4 and GOW II. GOW II blows away any GC game graphically.

Metroid Prime 2: echoes obviously looks better and has a perfect 60 fps framerate to boot with no visable loading times.

It's not even close really.