Microsoft might get away with weak hardware and still sell well because of other stuff and that makes me sad...

[DerNebel]

If the X1's hardware is weak then what is the Wii U?

Yeah, Microsoft will probably still be very successful, cause that "other stuff" is hugely important in a console nowadays and there is nothing wrong with that.

Also not caring about having the most powerful console does in no way correlate with not caring about games, some of the best games of all time have released on hardware that was not the strongest in its respective generation.