Art style makes a huge difference. Nintendo's art style doesn't usually shoot for realism, and it works for them, especially on the Wii U. Xenoblade Chronicles X does look amazing.
A little bit more power could definitely be useful. For games like Mario Kart they could render in 1080p with anti-aliasing to completely remove jaggies.
Also I'm playing Hyrule Warriors right now and that game could definitely use more horsepower. It doesn't look bad, but you can definitely tell it has flaws due to lack of hardware performance.
Yeah, a majority of Nintendo's properties really benefit from not having to go super-realistic or anything. That's why I'm still impressed by games like Bayonetta 2 and Xenoblade. Though obviously not...y'know, SUPER-realistic, they definitely aren't cartoony or anything and look pretty darn good.
Sure, sure. Obviously, more power can never really hurt. But I'm finding that a lot of games this gen (at least so far) look pretty darn good despite there being a gap in graphics processing. It's not like we are dealing with the same gap as we did last gen, with Wii games "vs." PS3/360 games. There is still a difference, sure. But it's much smaller, at least IMO. (and I'd argue that even the gap last gen could be overlooked sometimes thanks to art direction)
Can't really argue there. Though I will point out that some of Capcom's studios have been able to push Nintendo's systems pretty far, either before Nintendo themselves have done it, or arguably farther. Maybe even Square. But yeah, Nintendo themselves have been the most consistent.
There is not a new Fire Emblem game. But you can use Fire Emblem amiibos to unlock Marth, Lucina, Robin and Ike in CodeName S.T.E.A.M. - I think people just got confused.
I guess Wii games on VC is cool and all but it is weird that they skipped Gamecube. Doubly so because my Wii U plays Wii games so what is the point?! Save states and such I guess? Meh.
@missypissy I'm actually ok with that since I wanted the console and I already had the LE preordered. I didn't want to give up that statue or have two copies of the game.
