the article says microsft is investing heavily in motion controls, has weaker graphics then ps4 and no used games support, if true i hope microsoft fails nextgen, sounds horrible.

Yep, both ninjablade & Chark are PS fanboys who deny everything that shows that Nintendo is doing even 1 good thing during the present.

its like Dealing with 2D fanboys, except at least the 2D fanboys admit that they have a 2D agenda.

But it's like both PS fanboys & 2D fanboys have nothing else better to do but spend all day attacking everything in opposition.

I own Playstation & Nintendo & Sega Systems.

But I can only afford 2 consoles & 2 handhelds at a time (during any one Generation) but luckily the Vita library made it so I could just save money for a 3DS XL instead of PS Vita, but then the 3D effect in the Newer 3DS games made me save money for something else instead of 3DS XL.

So I just got extra cash laying around outside of what I got plan for Wii U & PS4. And the 3D movies in theaters won't cut it, LOL.

-this user was moderated for this post by amp316 

i don't even own a a ps3, how can i be a sony fanboy, lol

^ Interesting that your sig fails to note that the 360 also loses some of it's RAM to the OS. Yep, completely unbiased summary right there...

Most likely worse 1st party game library (Xbox 1, Xbox 360 vs. PS2-3), expensive proprietary and slow MS HDDs vs. fully swappable ones for PS4 (I'll probably get a 512GB SSD once prices get to reasonable level on that side in 3 years), more focus on Xbox Live (which likely means continued fees). Does not sound appealing.

OK, then, let's use the article, because even from the article, you're wrong.

"Chipworks' shot is still being analysed"

"The answer comes from a mixture of known and unknown variables."

"The obvious suspect would be the Wii U's 1.2GHz CPU, a tri-core piece of hardware re-architected from the Wii's Broadway chip" - NOT a tri-core version of Broadway, but hardware that was re-architected from Broadway.

"However, there still plenty of unknowns to factor in too"

"... and effectively we have something approaching a full spec"

Even DF don't make the claim that it's cold hard facts.

And the fact that they had to update the die photo image because they had only marked half of the shader units says to me that they didn't do the analysis themselves... at least, the author didn't. And all of the information in the article, except for that exceptional and unsubstantiated claim right at the end, is information available from that NeoGAF thread - while there was an initial mistake regarding 20 vs 40 ALUs (I think that's what they referred to them as) that Beyond3D corrected NeoGAF about, NeoGAF has made more progress than Beyond3D on actually analysing it.

no t true at all thrakter was coming out with a wild hypothesis of 470 gflops, and beyond3d memeber came and corrected him there is not one single fact neogaf came up with just assumptions so far and not even good ones.

Tell me, ninjablade... do you own one of these?

Well, as long as you are not one of those 2D fanboys that wish that 3D would die from the industry then I'll stop talking smack, LOL.

but your Xbox only thing sounds like a American only philosophy that is use for a white supremacist mentality to brainwash into kids like shown in Nightline (with Ted whomever, that was shown earlier during the 21st century)

OK look here is the deal. The most powerful R700 GPU ever made on 40nm node that approximates the 150mm² die size of the Wii U's GPU is RV740 (HD4770). 

That GPU has 960Gflops of processing power, 750mhz GPU clock and 51.2GB/sec memory bandwidth and on its own used 80W of power. I believe the power block for the entire Wii U console is just 75W. Even if we assume that the Wii U has an HD4770 with all of its shaders, textures and ROPs intact (640:32:16), it still has a 27% lower GPU clock and just 12.8GB/sec memory bandwidth, or 75% less than HD4770's. That means in the best case, it would have just 50% of the power fo the HD4770 because dropping memory bandwidth from 51GB/sec to 12.8GB/sec is suicidal for GPUs. R300 Radeon 9700Pro GPU from 2002 had almost 20GB/sec memory bandwidth. 

Half of HD4770's performance is not a next generation console and this is the absolutely best case for Wii U's GPU. The rest of the specs are just minor details that do not change the conclusion that the GPU has to be less powerful than HD4770, a lot less. Also, it's pure physics. You cannot make an R700 GPU that used 40-50W of power that's as powerful as an 80W one. By extension of Wii U's maximum power consumption, no R700 GPU inside of it made on 40nm process can ever even touch HD4770.