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Seriously... These topics got old months ago.

The Wii U is no match for the XBO. The XBO is far in front of the Wii U in terms of raw horsepower. Yes, developers can still make great looking games for the Wii U. With clever use of the hardware, good developers will manage to make games that look very nice on the Wii U. But the same game would run miles better on the XBO.

The XBO shares the same hardware blueprint as the PS4 with an exception for the RAM (eSRAM and DDR3 instead of a single pool of GDDR5) and its GPU being around 40% weaker. The Wii U is miles behind this with its Radeon 5000 series based GPU (which is 5 years old tech, compared to the 7000 series GPUs used in the other 2 consoles), 2 GB of RAM (only one GB used for games), 3 cores PPC processor...

People think that because it can run games at a certain resolution and a certain frame rate, that it means it's just as capable, or close to what is seen on some other system. But they don't seem to realise that games like Call of Duty 3 can run in 1080p and [over] 60 fps on current hardware. It's not just the resolution and frame rate that dictates a game and hardware's competence, it's what the heck is going on on screen at that resolution and frame rate that tells the whole story.
The Wii U is incapable of achieving anything remotely close to Ryse. And yes, as great looking as X looks, it's nowhere close. 

The gap between the PS4 and XBO is much smaller. Both system can speak the exact same "language". Use all the same features on a very similar scale. There is a gap, sure. That's why the XBO version of multiplatform games usually run at a lower resolution (still HD) and sometimes a lower frame rate to compensate. But it does so while running every graphics features shown on the PS4 versions.
Basically, while the PS4 is completely fluent in a certain language, the XBO is using it as a strong second language. He's fluent, but hesitates a little between sentences. While the Wii U is only able to speak enough words to order a lunch at McDonald's or ask for direction during a tourist trip in a foreign country.