I bought a wii u and love Nintendo games but I admit I would struggle to recommend it to anyone who wasn't so smitten with Nintendo's games. The wii u is horribly underpowered, has a tiny library of software and on a technical level is generally beaten by ps3 and 360. Certainly as a ps3 and 360 owner myself I find both those consoles more impressive for their best games.
I think when the truth comes out about the gpu of the wii u I think people will be surprised again just how low Nintendo went. Many believe its 352 gflops in performance but the truth is likely to be almost half that. It's only because its gpu architecture is later than 360 and ps3 that its gpu can outperform then but its still crippled by low memory bandwidth and very weak cpu performance.
I just think Nintendo need to provide better hardware to their developers. The wii u performance level makes it extremely difficult for Nintendo to make impressive games that sell the console. Even Zelda Windwaker HD has slowdown and that's a game that runs on the Gamecube.
Just think what would have been achieved in Mario kart if the wii u had been equipped with a 900 gflops gpu and a cpu lets say of four jaguar cores rather than 8.
I don't believe Nintendo's consoles have to be cutting edge but at least a performance level that is in the same ballpark area as ps4 and xbone. Call of duty at 60fps on 360 but struggling to get to 30fps on wii u when its claimed to be a next gen console is clearly ridiculous.
