I agree that specs are important. Not the black and white way many might think. Specs for consoles aren't important to the extent of only buying the most powerful and if it is about power differentials the important thing would be not to buy the weakest, but not necessarily. Let me explain, knowing what you are buying is important in understanding the potential for the software you will be purchasing. You can still buy a console because you know what specific content will be on it, Nintendo exclusive games in the Wii U's case, but specs are important for multiplat games as well as future 3rd party support and specific games that will require high specs. If the console you are looking to buy doesn't have enough power to meet the needs of developed games, it's an issue. Only an issue, if you don't want to spend money on more than one console or if you don't find the exclusive games worth the purchase by itself.
Anyone one who doesn't see this as reasonable either doesn't care or is being rude. And if you claim you don't care but berate the OP than you are actually being rude and you apparently do care.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
