Such misinformation.

The Wii U has roughly only Double the amount of ram available to developers compared to the Xbox 360 and PS3, not quadruple or ten times, but double.

Ram doesn't do any processing, it doesn't have the quivalent of 3gb of ram, it has the equivalent of 1gb of ram which is currently the amount given to developers, this may or may not change over time, that is highly dependant on Nintendo and how much they can reduce the memory consumption of the Wii U's operating system over time.

As for the Graphics chip, I'm not doubting it cannot do more graphics tricks than the Direct X 9 class graphics chips in the Xbox 360 and PS3, I fully expect it to use things like Tessellation and such, which is going to be it's LARGEST advantage over the current consoles. (Although the Xbox 360 has a Tessellator too, but it's underpowered and can only be used sparingly for things like water.)

It's not going to be anymore than a 2-3 fold increase in image quality, which lets be honest is still a bloody nice increase over the current systems.

The GPU is a 40nm part, the system has a maximum power draw of 75 watts, the fastest 40nm graphics chip that would fit that would be a Radeon 6670, however it's more than likely not a Radeon 6670 class GPU, but something significantly less as the system has to power a system drive, optical drive, Ram, CPU, GPU, Chipsets, controllers the works, so in the end it's probably safe to say the GPU has about 30-40 watts for itself which would land it at the Radeon 6450/6570 level.

To put that kind of performance into perspective, Integrated Graphics, Aka. IGP's have been available for a long time that's faster than that, however with that said, it's still a couple of multiples faster than the Xbox 360 and PS3, but it's nowhere near a PS4, 720 (I assume) or PC, Nintendo gave up on the high-end gaming market long ago, starting with the Wii.

Don't get me wrong, I would love for the Wii U to be competitive with the Xbox 720 and PS4, more competition is a GOOD thing as it always benefits the consumer, but you need to be realistic on the direction that Nintendo was taking the Wii U in.

I am saying the ram is so optimized that the PERFORMANCE could be the equivalent of 3gb. AND NINTENDO NEVER SAID DEVELOPERS ONLY HAVE ACESS TO 1GB. what was said is that The OS uses 1gb. if the OS isn't at full during the game (it isn't) then devs probably have acess to more than those rumoured 1gb for games. if they don't now, they will in the future. and i wouldn't worry about memory since devs only praised it. you say it can't be a 6670 but forget that those things can be customized to retain the original functions and consume less power.

Again, what we do know is that wii u is a good step up from ps360 while ps4/nextbox aren't as big steps as the ps360 were to ps2/xbox. the next consoles from sony and microsoft will be more powerfull than wii u but even a game that uses every drop of power from those consoles can be scaled to wii u in smaler resolution and minor details.

No. You cannot have a dynamically allocated amount of Ram for the OS/Game, the console is far to limited in memory space and would make it a nightmare to program for, it would be like playing a level and suddenly all the textures drop to a PS2-like quality level as the OS demands more Ram. - Has that ever happened? No? Because it's not how it works, you're indeed wrong on this untill there is some solid information to prove otherwise.

However, what Nintendo *can* do and you seem to be completely missing the point on is Nintendo can reduce it's OS memory consumption via updates over time, much like how Sony and Microsoft did with the PS3 and Xbox 360 respectively, today Developers have access to 1Gb of Ram, in 6 months time they might have access to 1.5Gb of Ram, but it's not a Dynamic amount, far from it, it would literally be asanine in a console to do that.
PC's can get away with it because they can have several multiples more Ram than the Wii U or PS4 and large caches on other fast storage devices.

As for the GPU, I'm talking in relative performance, you have a fixed amount of transisters and voltage to work with and you need to make sure fabrication yields are high in such a cost sensitive device, hence from a performance perspective it can't be a Radeon 6670, it's going to be less and even if the Wii U did have a Radeon 6670? Integrated Graphics can still be faster these days.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the Wii U having a crap load of compute power, but you can't expect a 10x fold increase over the PS3/360, it's not going to happen, those consoles GPU's despite old were at-least high-end once, the Wii U has a low-end GPU whichever way you cut that cake.

why would i expect a 10x fold increase. even the ps4 is only a 4.5x over the ps3, if you count raw gigaflops. the wii was 20x less than ps360 with different architeture. now wii u should be 2x less than nextbox and 3x less than ps4 tops, see the difference?

PS3 GPU is around 176 Gigaflops.
PS4 GPU is around the 1.8 Teraflops mark.

That's a 10x increase in the main piece of hardware that renders and does all the fancy little tricks on screen alone.
Plus it's capable of much more effects than the PS3's GPU and is more efficient at doing so too.

CPU wise...
PS3 CPU: Around 230 Gigaflops for the maximum theoretical. (Note: No developer has managed to harness that.)
PS4 CPU: Anywhere from 300-400 Gigaflops, I'm basing this on the improvements from Brazos to Jaguar and the doubling of the cores etc'. - x86 based, easy for developers to gain the CPU's full potential.
At most a 2x improvement, Note: CPU's generally don't render graphics due to being serialised in nature where-as graphics are incredibly parallel in it's workload, some smaller framebuffer effects sure.

Ram:
PS3 Amount: 512Mb total. @ 24.9GBps. (That's the faster XDR speed I've listed.)
PS4 Amount: 8192Mb total. @ 176GBps.
That's a 16x increase in the memory amount, 7x increase in memory speed.

Graphically, I would expect a 10x increase in image quality, it's a given, no idea where you pulled that 4.5x number from, it's the GPU rendering all those pretty graphics remember, not the Ram or the CPU.

As for the Wii being a different architecture, that's not entirely accurate, the Wii used the same PowerPC architecture as the Xbox 360 and PS3, so CPU instruction compatability wise it's not all that different.
GPU wise, the Wii used an AMD Radeon (Possible Radeon 9000 series class) but modified heavily, using the TEV pixel shader technology that was in the Gamecube.

Now as for the Wii U vs PS4's GPU...
The PS4's GPU is again capable of about 1.8 Teraflops.
The Wii U's GPU will more than likely be around 240 - 624 Gigaflops (Basing that on the Radeon 6570 and 6450.)

Then the PS4's GPU also has a far more efficient Tessellator, it can render far more complex scenes and models with a minimal performance penalty, the VLIW5 architecture just never managed to be that great from a geometry perspective compared to the GCN architecture and that's just one of many examples.

The sad part is, I've had people yelling at me for bashing the PS4 over the last few days, you really can't win on this forum can you?

so even at the worst case scenario (wich it isn't) for wii u you agree it's a much smaller difference than wii against ps360. and the wii u has the same effects and modern architeture + the scalability of engines, something the wii only dreamed of having. basing on that i predict wii u will get most multiplatforms for the 8th generation.