When did Nintendo ever promise you guys anything more than PS3/360 level visuals?

Mr. Miyamoto said like a year+ ago that the Wii U probably wouldn't be much more powerful than the PS3/360, but some people just built it into their head that the system had to be something to keep pace with the PS4/720.

That's simply not the system Nintendo designed or even wanted to make here.

Yes.


Anyone who thinks otherwise is in denial.

Damnit im in denial :/

Tech wise (and that's what you asked) I think it's in limbo between current-gen HD twins and NexTwins (probably little bit more toward current-gen). Will it be Dreamcast 2? I don't think so, Nintendo has more than enough 1st party titles to make it successful, and I'm sure there will be decent 3rd party multiplatform support for at least first 1-2 years.
Once NexTwins hit the market, we'll see by how much they are more powerful than PS360, and if they turn out to be 8-10 times as powerful, I can see developers completely dropping support for PS360, so usual process of making WiiU port might get a lot more complicated for them.
That off course does not mean it will be completely impossible, just whether or not they'll be willing to do it, and that I think depends mostly of how well multiplats will be accepted from WiiU install base in those first 1-2 years.

They said it themselves that the gap between the next Playstation/Xbox consoles wouldn't be much more than the Wii U.  I guess it was sort of implied.  Plus Miyamoto is old as fuck, now.  We don't pay attention to him anymore.

http://www.1up.com/features/dreamcast-20

You just read whatever you wanted on that didnt you? Theres 4 points, not 1. They all work in conjunction.

Its a fact and you cant deny that is the case with every passing gen, that the leap will be increasingly smaller because the noticeable different will be smaller, besides the fact that development costs would skyrocket otherwise and you would be charged 100 dollars/euros per game. Even in your post, notice how you compare to when graphics will be equal to the real world. That is not the issue, the issue is that the difference between gens is increasingly smaller cause we get closer to that threshhold.

Actually, if you look at the FFversus13 trailer when Noctis is in the car and they go past the toll station, dont tell me that doesnt look real. Its amazing. I have often wondered if they were using real life footage for it, but then those black pillars come from underneath revealing the thing as CG.

I can second this as I read it myself before. He also said the gap wouldn't be as big as between wii and 360/ps3,

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Xbox%201.5&defid=1443575

We were wrong, then. Could we be wrong, now?

Nah.  They said, When you see the Wii's graphics, you will say "WOW!"