Wii U graphics power finally revealed - "we can now finally rule out any next-gen pretensions for the Wii U"

[Screamapillar]

Mr Khan said:

pezus said:
"The answer is fairly straightforward - leaks tend to derive from development kit and SDK documentation and, as we understand it, this crucial information simply wasn't available in Nintendo's papers, with developers essentially left to their own devices to figure out the performance level of the hardware."

That's a great job, Nintendo. Well done

Now that's quite impossible. If Nintendo were doing that, developers would be doing nothing but bitching (since we know it doesn't take a lot to get game developers bitching in the first place), and there wouldn't be a single positive thing said about the system if Nintendo were being deliberately obtuse.

Yeah, remember when Nintendo released full specs for GameCube and it was second-place horsepower-wise in comparison to Xbox and significantly more powerful than PS2?  That didn't help them at all.  Commercial success in the video game industry tends to not have anything to do with whomever has the most powerful machine.  I wouldn't release specs either if I were them.

As Iwata so brilliantly stated at E3 2004 about Revolution: "I suppose I could give you a list of technical specs.  I think you would like that.  But I won't, for a simple reason; they really don't matter."  (loud applause)