While I would disagree with the claim that the games are weak, I do notice that a large portion of the games were heavily bundled, and I think it demonstrates that Sony is willing to support quality new franchises even if they do not perform well on their own. With Resistance, Uncharted, Little Big Planet and Motorstorm all being given away millions of times Sony was able to build a fan base for these games that otherwise wouldn't have existed.

Most of those bundles didnt happen at launch. If they were bundled at all they were not bundled heavily. If they were bundled heavily the sales would've been way higher like Kinect sports, Wii Sports and others whose numbers match the total of consoles or peripherals sold.

RAM isn't the defining factor for a consoles power.  But I agree, it's very unlikely the Wii U will only be just above the 360 and PS3. If we go by the latest rumors the Wii U gpu is gonna be an Evergreen based gpu. Just looking at the architecture alone means the Wii U gpu is gonna be far more efficient than the Xenos or RSX. But if Nintendo wants to keep the Wii U cheap and profitable then it could well be just above the 360 and PS3.

I doubt it. The Wii was based on the same architecture as the GC, only with a smaller fabrication process and a 50% clock speed increase. The Wii U hardware is gonna be based on recently released hardware. Also, the XBox 8 and PS4 won't be expensive consoles so I doubt the hardware of that console will be much faster than the Wii U. 1.5 to 2 times the Wii U? Possibly. More than that would mean they will have to either release their consoles with a much higher price point or make a considerable loss per unit sold. I don't see that happen.

Kinect sports isn't bundled with kinect, kinect adventures is, this is more proof of you not knowing what you are talking about. You claim you pay attention and yet make silly mistakes like this. Have you realized Sports Champion is bundled with Move and yet still flopped. Why are Sony fans so stuck on, if something is bundled its going to sell. The game still has to be appealing. Thats the point of what i have been saying this entire time. Sony cant make an appealing game. Their highest selling game hasnt even cracked 8 million, which is also theyre only franchise that can hit 6 million.

Sony generally has multiple bundles being sold at the same time, many of which are promotions that are only available in certain stores, but most of these bundles include 1 Sony published game. Right now there are official Infamous and an Uncharted 3 bundles that are being sold. On top of that, Sony also sells controller+game bundles (sometimes multiple-game bundles like Resistance 1&2 + controller) for $10 more than a controller; and almost all of the bundled games are games from your list.

This isn't a "bad" thing that Sony is doing, it is actually something all the manufacturers should be doing, but you have to realize that many of these games were bought because they were a good deal not because the gamers desperately wanted to play them.

Personally, I'm debating buying a PS3 to hook American Netflix up to my TV, and if I bought it I would likely buy a 2 game bundle and then pick up one of the controller bundles; but I wouldn't be buying any particular game, and it would be difficult to say that I was all that interested in the IP.

HappySqurriel he knows all of this, he just ignores it and claims every high selling game Ninty makes gets its sells from bundles.

I have a point, you just don't want to see it. As I said you have a major bias and I wont fuel it. Just because I mixed up Kinect Sports and Kinect adventures bundle sales doesn't mean I don't know what I am talking about. If you didnt understand my point you wouldn't have responded with the correct game which was bundled with the Kinect to begin with. And your reasoning as to why Sony isn't hitting large numbers is because? My guess is because Sony themselves are out of touch with casuals and their marketing was never great to begin with. Again...this argument is over since a sensible answer cannot be achieved from you. Its obvious you have a bias against Sony. 

Bundles aren't generally always about the title (even though established titles often are a draw). When my mother bought me the Donkey Kong bundle when I was younger it's not because she knew who Donkey Kong was, it's because its there and she didnt need to think about what game to buy me. Thats why Motorstorm sold 4 million copies in the beinning. Sony bundled a lot of their new IP's but it was much later than expected. The IP is essentially just an icing on the cake to the consumer but to the publisher its about making their titles known. After the first Mario /Duck Hunt bundle, Mario became a household name. Today a Halo, Mario or GT5 bundle is a huge thing, but of course the more casual experiences will win out in the end because of proper marketing. Even after having over 150 million consoles sold Sonys sales have always been spread out more amongst numerous games rather than focused on a select few. If you look at Sonys sales last gen and this gen it serves as the answer that their titles value is more sporadic. The timing for most of Sonys exclusives are usually between first and second quarter which is pretty much retarded.

Yes, and this makes a lot of sense, as even with huge video RAM, large worlds could have more textures overall than what can be loaded at a time. Anyhow, I'm not a graphics whore, 0.5GB video RAM is fine for me, I was a lot more worried for main RAM, as it could affect gameplay (dynamic loading can almost do miracles in this case too, but sometimes it isn't enough, particularly if resources and/or dev time are scarce), but 1GB on platforms with lean OS' like consoles should be fine in most cases too. Then there are wizards like those at CDProjekt RED that can squeeze a game like The Witcher 2 in a 512MB total RAM console, and well, for them it looks like 1.5GB total RAM should be vast and comfortable like a royal palace.

Agreed.

Too many of us are equating their home computer RAM to console RAM and thinking all factors are equal and a new console in this day and age should come with no less than 6 GB because that'w what the average PC comes with now.

You could almost analogize the situation with a sports car's top speed.   It may be able to hit 200 MPH (6 GB) but you'll never take it there.  Not even close.   If, according to local traffic laws, 75 MPH (1.5 GB) is all you are legaly allowed to travel....then 200 MPH (6 GB) is irrelevant for practical usage.