Forget about the legal action.

What is more scarey is the way he is thinking. Hopefully the next genaeration of game developers will not have the same mentality.

Developers get paid to work and not to be loyal fanboys trying to harm competitors that they do not like. If your management tells you to develop a game on a nokia phone, that is what you do,

It is better then the alternative of loosing your reputation and paycheck.

While I certainly don't expect the WiiU's POWER7 to be "Watson" powerful, neither Nintendo nor IBM have confirmed the number of active cores, threads per core, clock rate, amount of cache, etc.  So while there is that report that you speak of, there are also other opinions (such as Gearbox's Randy Pitchford) that indicate the CPU is more powerful than the Xenon.  And with the strongly rumored GPU (R700 family) and the all-but-confirmed increase in RAM (nearly 3 times as much), making WiiU games a year or so down the road work on 360 may not be as easy as you think; especially when regarding simultaneously active screens in use.  In any case, saying WiiU is basically on par with 360, as Spencer suggests, is what I was contesting since I believe it's too early to declare that.

Incidentally, is it just me or does anyone else find it strange that it's almost always GamesIndustry.biz where these reports of WiiU's "underpowered" hardware emanate from?

WiiU will make 360 and PS3 last way past 10 years if graphics potential is similar.

Any WiiU game could be a 360/PS3 game also for easy profit. Nintendo just guaranteed the 10 year lifecycle and beyond for their competitors

I don't think Epic would risk that since they would get majorly sued by Nintendo.

You gotta love these types of comments. Ahh, always good for a laugh.

@archie. Never noticed that! Propaganda? Yeah!

Sure, if you want to think of it that way. It would be crazy to think it wasn't going to happen anyways, the twins took forever to finally amorce the manufacturers would be nuts to just phase them out from one day to the next.

Seriously, it has little to do with the WiiU at this point.

Aaah! The PS2 is the best-selling console of all time. I don't think the comparison is fai-er.

Yeah, it certainly seems that way.  For instance, they were the ones who received the reports back in April from "anonymous devs" who claimed that WiiU was not as powerful as the PS360, which is fine, however they conveniently failed to mention the opinions to the contrary from many identified sources (such as Gearbox)... or even the "on par" rumors, such as Vigil's opinion.

Now, they at least seem to be acknowledging that it's on par with current gen, but like I said, if games in a year or so after WiiU's launch excel visually beyond the launch titles the way Gears and Uncharted did for their respective systems, we could very well see WiiU stretch its graphical legs beyond what the HD twins are capable of.

Only time will tell, though.

You'll always see the negative comments coming from the same people on forums. It's the same with media articles. If a place is always spewing negativism on a topic, in the end it's cause they're biased. We don't need time to figure that one out.

And even if it isn't malvolent, it's purely lazy on their part to just show one side of the coin. My mind is made up, I'm done giving the benefit of the doubt.

All you haters, beware. happyD is on the prowl.

I'll be honest, I did not see anything on the Wii U that a 360 can't handle. But that is about to change soon. The point is the graphical leap is not as big as I thought it would be. The question is if the tablet-controller will be enough to sell the console itself like the Motion-controller did with the Wii.