I dunno man but the GPU of the Wii U isn't that great either. It's said to be a R770 we see in last gen cards like the AMD 4xxx series. It might be enough to compensate for the slow ram and cpu compared to the 360, which basically has a XT1900 card, but there is only so much engineers can do with those components when going head to head with the something like the ps4 specs. 

Anyway, all we can do is wait for E3 and see how next gen games like: Watch Dogs, BF4 compare to the high-end pc/ ps4 versions and off course the 360/ ps3 versions. Somehow I got a feeling they will all look pretty horrid on current gen consoles, especially if you look at recent games like Bioshock Infinite on ps3/360 VS the PC version. Just don't say all the developers suck when the Wii U version looks on par with current gen ;) 

We've already seen from Most Wanted that the Wii U is a noticeable step up from the previous gen consoles, and like I've said previously there's a great deal we don't have a clue about with the GPU. If you have a look at the die shot you'll notice that its origins are completely unrecognisable.

It's not a noticable step up dude, even when Criterion (known for awesome porting) put in the work. This is what IGN said in their review...

Criterion's touted that they’ve been able to bring to the PC version’s enhanced textures to the Wii U, (thanks to the available 1GB of RAM compared to the 512MB available to Xbox 360 and PS3). The truth is I was hard-pressed to notice the difference from the existing console versions. It looks great, but isn’t a noticeable step up. 

As I said a billion times, we might not have a clue about the GPU but developers definitely know everything there is to know about it, else it would be pretty damn hard for them to make Wii U games. Sure they will learn to optimize it better due time, but they know what they are working with. It's slightly better then current gen, but not good enough to run next-gen engines the way companies like Epic have in mind for being the standard for the next 7 years. 

That reviewer really should have gone to Specsavers mate. You can immediately see the difference:

That's not too far off being night and day, the IGN reviewer was either blind as a bat, had a bad memory or had some sort of agenda going on. That's most definitely a noticable difference, and that's just with screenshots during the day. Driving at night is a major difference. Superior textures, superior lighting and a superior framerate.

People really need to stop thinking that the Wii U is only on par with last gen consoles. What little we know of the hardware points toward the Wii U being 3 or 4 times more powerful than the 360. It's partly Nintendo's fault for waiting until November to give developers final dev kits and tools and partly down to the software we've seen so far being rushed to make the launch and launch window periods.

There's no way to predict exactly, but you're probably close to what it will be in %'s. Price, games and support will be key in the end.

Lol so goopy you're using a video game review which is subjective may I add to judge the WiiUs power? You clearly know so much lol./sarcasm.

I've edited my post with screenshots to show how ridiculous that reviewer's opinion is lol.

Sub 720P and only 30FPS with slightly better lighting and higher res textures? Wake up, that's terrible for a "next" gen console.

720P and 30FPS for a game that doesn't even look that good....and the comparisons you did looks different when in motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gZeDsbZfTMk

Night and day? Prolly not.

Also the Wii U will do good on games that aren't CPU intensive because of the GPGPU which I admit is more powerful than current gen consoles, but very underpowered overall. Seriously, Nintendo's CPU is using 2001 tech. Seriously, what the fuck Nintendo?

I could never justify spending $300 for 2001 tech and graphics on-par with cheapter alternatives with larger libraries. 

Night and day my ass. 

It's only sub-720p because it was easier for them to do the port that way. And you can definitely see the difference when in motion, particularly the night stuff. Play the game on the PS3 or 360 and then play it on the Wii U. It's noticeably superior. You really can't tell much from a YouTube video, you need to see the difference on a telly to really appreciate it.

As for 2001 tech, that's nonsense. The GPU is 2011 tech and we have no idea about the CPU, just that it's from the PowerPC 7xx line. It's the same line that Gekko and Broadway are from but it isn't 3 Broadways duct-taped together. And it should be noted that Broadway outperforms Xenon at general processing tasks due to the Out Of Order Execution and much shorter pipeline. Expresso also has those advantages over Xenon but with 3 times as many cores and a higher clockspeed.