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People spend a lot of time debating a simple question. The answer is No. The Wii U did not influence anything about the PS4. Sony did not decide last year what the specs would be for the PS4. While some of those specs might be fluid, they had a base idea of what they wanted to achieve with the PS4 and that'll be what's rolling out with the dev kits.

Companies don't completely change their game plan based on a product that hasn't released, especially if they felt no matter what Nintendo did the PS4 would be more powerful.

How powerful the PS4 will be, whether it'll be several orders of magnitude greater than the Wii U and how graphically powerful it'll be will be up to debate, but I think now is a bit early. There are a lot of rumors, this article included, and until the actual hardware is clarified it won't make a difference what people think.

I love debating hardware, but it does my tits in to debate rumors as if they're factual.  It's like trying debating which gust of wind was more powerful.