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Well, we should care. It could be paramount to the 3rd party relations this machine will get. Do we want another Nintendo with only the capability to recieve rehashed ports of last gen games?
Building a machine with the same hardware discrepancy as the Wii - PS360 would be foolish, they could still construct a console cost efficiently that could and would recieve a lot of 3rd party efforts due to ease of development without the need for peculiar tailoring and "moving backwards" in terms of tech.

Nintendo need to realize that they can't simply sit back and do everything differently and hope and expect to dictate what the market can provide for them, they need to conform a little themselves and stop complaining about problems they built themselves with the Wii.

Constructing another Wii in terms of hardware capacity would be beyond folly if they want any kind of support and it appears that they have realized this and avoided it. As long as the WiiU is capable of the same structure shaders, full HD, decent framerates and mundane tasks such as AA and field depths and real-time shadows, whether it be weaker versions than Nextbox and PS4, they'll be fine. And in this regard, they will be fine, that much is revealed by every source, both positive and negative.