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Well the OP was hard to read, but some things made sense, the WiiU is a capable console, much more so than many give it credit for. Is it better than the PS4... well we really have nothing to compare it to since the thing is not out yet. PS4 launch games are likely to be not the best representation of what it is capable of any more than a lot of the halfassed WiiU launch titles were.

Having owned the WiiU since launch day, the console has really improved in performance since day one and day one it was pretty decent for a cheap console. They are very different approaches to consoles give the new guys a chance to build a library of decent games and some time for developers to adapt and then lets have this discussion. I suspect in time the next gen HD twins will be better, but not by as much as last time, but that is pure conjecture on my part since I am not privy to the NDA protected info, nor an expert in these systems.

Can you trust the opinion of developers, only to a certain extent, they are experts at least on the consoles they regularly work with. However game companies, like EA for example, also have a corporate political agenda that is often based on exclusivity deals that amount to who is paying us to talk nice about them. Further more developers who are used to a certain target platform and tool set are not always the best judge of the potential of something new. It is human nature to balk at change.

So many threads on this gen are far too early. Wild sales predictions, magical secret sauce, prognostications about performance, this or that is dooming one console or another, some guy on the net takes a look at a chip and claims divine inspirational knowledge of what it does through some frenloological hudu, and so on. Then you have flame wars by people who have never seen or played the consoles in question taking stances that are completely over the top and based on rumour, conjecture and misplaced loyalty.

End of rant... for now.