Is Nintendo always going to be behind Microsoft and Sony in graphics?

[Mr Khan]

Metallicube said:

Well they can't "always" be behind, because sooner or later graphic capability is going to reach a point where at least the human eye can't notice a difference. We're pretty close to that point already. I still don't believe Sony and MS's next consoles could possibly look much more noticably better than PS3/360/Wii U, at least not enough to warrant the purchase of a new $300-$400 console.

It's not even an issue of the human eye, from what some of our more tech-learned posters have been saying, apparently when you push too much further beyond the GPU rumored to be in Wii U, you're talking about rendering more polygons than there are pixels in 1080p, which would be fairly pointless...