I'm mainly a Sony and Nintendo guy, but now, I'm really starting to feel a bit overwhelm. As if I have to play this game just because its getting so much press even though the game end up being mediocre at best most of the time. I'm mainly a exclusive kind of guy. Not only that but gaming became even more complicated then ever and I feel next gen will get even worst.

Now it's moar confusing...

Dreamcast was a massive visual leap over the PS1/N64 and held it's own against the PS2 initially (later PS2 games blow the DC capabilities out of the water, but DC development ceased barely 2 years into the systems life so we'll never know what could have been fully achieved with the system).

Wii U is currently on par. I think the 3DS vs PSP comparison is more valid personally.

Personally so long as they give me games I don't care. Sonic Lost World looks awesome and I'm not really tied to hardware like most people.

Dreamcast followed by GCN were my fave systems in the pre HD gen, PS3 has been my favourite this gen and next gen it's currently all to play for.

for comparison's sake here is the 3DS vs Vita (which will be like the Wii U and PS4/XB1 spec comparison):

I always thought it is a well-designed console with very much power but the problem is that bigN didn't want to compete with Xbone/P$4. I think it will be the same as with Wii: mostly lazy ports, some devs will show that WiiU is of course ahead of P$3/360.

I think we may have finally reached the conclusion that Wii U is more powerful than PS360 but less powerful than PS4/XBOne. So we won't see any more of these discussions? Cool.

@mikerox

EUREKA!!!!  I'm surprised that no one else made the comparison before.  The PSP vs 3DS capability was discussed very similar to the PS360 vs Wii U, in which the 3DS didn't show much improvement over the PSP (in some cases some games looked worse) until recently or until RE:Rev was released.

So it's either current gen or it's way-in-the-future-gen. Okay.

On a serious note, "If you develop for Wii U you have to take advantage of these possibilities, otherwise your performance is of course limited. Also your engine layout needs to be different," is likely at the core of the problem thus far. I think, even if the Wii U gets next gen multi-plats, they're going to be gimped much like the early PS3 versions. Not always, of course, because PS3 versions were on par more often than not, but now and then a very bad optimization will slip through that will probably make the Wii U look weaker than it actually is.

I hope so...but with people like ahem*Ninjablade* ahem these types of discussion will rage on until the next...next generation.

They obviously mean video graphics card generation, not console.