@Everyone

People here need to stop attacking/defending about the WII U's hardware. It's going to be the games that will show which console is more worthwhile to purchase not the one with the better hardware. Everyone here calm the F#ck down, your all getting extremely riled up over something pretty trivial such as the WII U's hardware. I'm a PC gamer also and even I understand the the fact that software sells hardware. 

Bayo2 is rumored to be 1080p ATM, but rumors are just rumors, it has no more nor less credibility than your 720p claim until the softwares release.

if bayo 2 is 1080p/60fps i will ban myself forever, and wiiu has impressed me and is indeed 2x more powerful then currentgen.

apparently nintendo cares thats why the specs are top secret.

What I can tell you so far is that the E3/PAX Prime demo looked really good(online videos can't show it off due to the higher FPS, I was under the impression that textures weren't that great but I knew I was wrong when I saw the game running in real time) and performance was right there when I played and feels even more amazing than the first game. I did see some graphical bugs since my eyes are really trained but apparently they are known issues that will be fixed after I made some inquries. If they can get that kind of performance already in an early demo build in 720p, then 1080p isn't entirely impossible if they optimize the code more, though I'm leaning towards 720p final as well, I'd be surprised otherwise.

yea jumping from 720p to 1080 only requires 2.5x the rendering power, should be breeze.

I'd also say 720p as well too. 

That has more to do with the rendering pipeline memory speed and fillrate than pure raw power, since I'm not a Wii U dev, I don't have the information on any of that. It's not just a pixel % count like many would believe, you need to spend less time on Neogaf or Beyond3D and study on the subject more if you are actually interested, out of every 100 tech users from those sites, only about 2-3 are actually really good and know their shit, rest are either idiots or amateurs, I'm talking about even the devs, I can't stress how many idiots are in every field of a job.

If deSome people need to realize that this system will not create better graphics for someone just for being a bit faster. Also, people are underestimating the DX 10.1/11 functionality, which will likely be more to use once PS360 get phased out. While they're still around, ports for Wii U will likely get the "easy way" treatment, where DX 9 quality stuff is easier to do since Wii U is powerful enough to run most PS360 games without much optimizations. Optimizations for Wii U will require quite a few things, like offloading SIMD / floating point to GPU and let the CPU focus on strengths, use all other dedicated components to offload tasks, and take better advantage of the eDRAM and use it efficiently. If developers hit issues with development, then it's truly their problem. Though, much of this could have been solved if Nintendo put in beefier hardware.

BTW if you want to know about the pixel fillrate the WII U has like 8 ROPS and that is the same amount as the PS3 and both of them are clocked at 550 Mhz which gives you 4.4 gigapixels.