Supposedly, Final WiiU Specs from VGLeaks

[Squilliam]

HappySqurriel said:

Squilliam said:
The Wii U has a very small box which is only 1/3rd larger than the Wii by volume. It isn't going to be extremely powerful because it is extremely small.

As you should know, size and power consumption aren't necessarily good indicators of processing power ...

With how clock speed has an exponential impact on energy consumption, what do you think would happen if the XBox 360 CPU was modified and underclocked at 1.6GHz? While it would have resulted in the XBox 360 having a CPU which had (essentially) half the processing power, with similar modifications to the rest of the XBox 360 it could have probably been released in a system that wasn't much larger than the Wii. When doing something along these lines you're trading off the performance per dollar to increase the performance per watt, and lowering overall performance.

This is (essentially) the trade-off that has been made on high end laptops ... You get a laptop that has a CPU which is nearly as powerful as the desktop CPU but is much more expensive.

Now, I doubt Nintendo has gone to any extremes with this so I doubt the Wii U is amazingly powerful, but the Wii U is about the same size as consoles were traditionally and most of these systems performed reasonably well.

The Wii U is likely more powerful than the current generation consoles with slightly better technology but it won't be a huge difference. It is likely to be between 1.3-2.5* more powerful than the Xbox 360 which is bourne out by the games seen thus far and the more credible rumours. I do expect the cost of the system to be between $199-249 and with the Yen vs dollar/euro conversion as it is that doesn't pay for expensive systems.