I didn't say lead I said lowest common denominator, learn to read.

Calm down.

What do you  mean by lowest common denominator?

Doubt that, because if you're going to make games that underpowered, why make them for consoles at all? The other point possibly being that rising dev costs will mean that developers are forced to incorporate Wii U into their plans at least until PS4/720 have a healthy userbase between them (which could take at least until late 2014), by which point the Wii U would be so entrenched in the system that it would be harder to ignore completely.

The baseline from which games will be built on, the weakest hardware that developers will be designing their games for. Tablets will be as powerful as the 360 by 2014.

So you're saying that tablets will become the lead platform for games. I was right.

You're wrong though. Tablets are just like PCs. Tech Specs are too varied or devs to design games for tablets then port to other platforms.

There's no way PS4/720 games will ever be on tablets dude. Not if Epic has their way.

The problem with pie in the sky wishes like this is that console gamers don't want to pay for it, even if they insist that they do (most won't when they see the price tag) and neither MS nor Sony want to subsidize another hardware platform for consumers by discounting retail units hundreds off the production cost per unit.

If Epic really wants to design a game engine that requires hundreds of dollars worth of GPU, then they should just stick to developing games for PCs with bleeding edge, top of the line VGA cards. But naturally, they don't want to try and develop, much less sell a game engine that runs on less than 1% of all PCs in circulation.

They really can't expect MS or Sony to effectively pay for those high end GPUs if they are to sell the next gen of consoles at prices consumers are realistically willing to pay.

Yes, but overall the graphical gap will be much smaller than this current gen over last. As such, they'll be minor improvements, and certainly not PC levels.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/05/ff_unreal4/all/1?pid=2550

I'm not sure I like it if this is the way gaming will end up. We need more games which look like this:

Not this:

He's saying he wants those consoles to be more powerfull than they currently are... because you know he's actually seen them being a top dev and creator of one of the most utilized engines. So, in his opinion they are not powerful enough... meaning they are not cutting edge of PC technology. All you have to do is look at my comparison thread to see that this is true.

Wii U will be able to run UE4... as will the others.
All three will be within a reasonable power level of each other.
All three will be less powerful than a custom built $1000 PC when they launch.
All three will be a smaller jump over the most powerful console this gen than what they were over the Xbox last gen.

I am right and I will be making a "I was right all along" thread where you can kiss my ass as I've been saying this would be true for years now.

I agree the graphical leap won't be as big as from SD to HD but it will still be substantial. It won't be minor like you keep saying.

Unreal Engine 4 needs about 10x current gen power to run. We know next-gen consoles will run that. I'm assuming the 10x is for 1080p UE4 support so we can see 6-8x powerful consoles running UE4 games at 720p. My guess is that the Wii U will take this route. 

Really not the same thing since Wii had an archaic, late 1990s architecture that made porting extremely difficult or impossible.

Wii U will be using a modern architecture.