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I'm saying it's not a simple port job like you're implying.

I could understand taking the brawl base and upscaling it for the Wii U but saying that it's a "lack of resource management" for them to do things differently on a handheld that is less powerful than the original Wii even is kind of ridiculous.

Developers have been making direct ports of their games available for both the Wii and the handheld since the DS. New Super Mario Bros. is the most obvious, but you also have a number of games like Sega Tennis and Sonic All-Stars Racing that use all the same programming and balancing and even visual and audio resources with greater compression to reduce the strain on the processing of the handheld system.

It's not impossible for them to work with the existing resource base to create the 3DS version of the game, and I think it's pretty clear that the 3DS and Wii U versions of the game are using the same resources. I don't even understand why you think this would be an obstacle since it's something which has been overcome for almost a decade by most developers.

Then I sincerely am out of the loop, because all the demo and early copies report I see paint a completely opposite picture of what you said. But even so, I still think it's a valid effort to rebuild everything. You could accomplish Mario Kart 8 with the same resources as Wii's but why would they do that? It's a new game, it's a new everything. There's no reason to think they should take the easy route out when they're making a game for a system it never even debuted before. "But they could have built it on Brawl files", but what do you mean by this even? Literally the same files? Same rigging? Same animations? New models wouldn't work well with that. They definitely had to used it as reference but that's it

See, all of your frustration is coming from you just not hearing what I'm saying.

I'm not saying I wanted them to take the easy way out. I'm saying that if they spent all that energy to create something that could have been created by going the easy way, then they should have. If they spent all that energy and created something that is actually different, something that does not feel like what came before it, then they didn't waste the energy at all. Then they started from a blank slate and it was worth it.