you still see pretty far but it handles more populated areas worse than the switch and suspending with the home button means waiting on a loading screen for upwards of a minute for the game to catch up

it's not upwards to a minute when accessing home. the difference is switch outputs the game at 900p when docked vs. 720p on Wii U. also there are very few areas where the framerate drops a little more on Wii U. That's literally it.

The answer is clever development and optimisation

xenoblade chronicles X and need for speed most wanted are huge and graphically complex games, they run great on the wii u