Lowest res game on the ps4 is 900p, and most on the xbox one are 900p or 1080p... 

There a few xbox one games that operate at 720p despite the ps4 being 1080p so the xbox one is not far off being that console although nowadays 900p is the norm for xbone.

Make the xbone a little weaker, slow those cpu's down to 1.4ghz instead of 1.7ghz and perhaps drop the gpu speed a bit and you basically have that console, something capable of matching the ps4 but only at 720p. That is still a huge increase in power over wii u.

That's if you are truly matching the ps4 with everything except resolution. If you start reducing texture resolution, cutting back on some detail etc you can make a game that looks pretty similar but needs less resources.

I personally don't think the wii u ever needed to be that powerful. Between the ps3/360 and ps4/xbone there is a huge middle ground that Nintendo could have occupied but instead they went for marginally more gpu performance over 360/ps3 but marginally less cpu power than 360/ps3.

Something around 600-700 gflops for the gpu and perhaps 30,000 mips for the cpu would have been good. Easily achieved in the standard wii u case if they had gone for a 28nm or 22nm fabrication process not 45nm.

However lets face it many games don't push hardware, if you are doing 2D games or cartoon graphics instead of realistic graphics you don't need advanced hardware. I have a ps4 now and some of the indy stuff you see could be achieved on a sega saturn with as much detail if its just a 2D scroller. I've not seen many games that look like the are pushing that 1.8 teraflops of graphics power. A lot of the games would be just as good on wii u, ps3 and 360. Occasionally you see a game like Super Stardust Ultra where you think the older ps3 version is much better. Don't get me wrong though the ps4 is absolutely brilliant but its only a handful of games that justify the technnology so far. Other games are just nicely enhanced.

Really I would off preferred them to make a console that's easy to develop for so third party would help. More COD,SF and definately fifa is needed otherwise its just a niche console

Maybe they want to keep the frames stable first before they think about upgrading graphics.

The only thing that's still missing is good AA. Other than that, i'm totally fine with the graphics as they are.

Would the Wii U able to run The Witcher 3 with the same settings as the console version at 720p?

Yes. 720 is still hd, most of us were playing before on much lower resolutions and never cared nor complained. The question is more, could it?

That would be awesome. The quest log can get a little clogged up and having touch screen navigation would help! 

So many secondary and witcher contracts... 

Wii U games look amazing. I got no complaints whatsoever.

I guess multiplats do perform badly because the standard for third parties are the PS4 and X1.

To be honest though, Nintendo seems to prioritise 60fps over resolution, and thats what i like to see.