I watched the video just now and can see your point.  That's an unusual case it seems.  Not most cases.  I would still not say it has trouble running it.  In the video i can't see the difference except numerically.    I play the game everyday on Wii U and it's glorious.   No trouble at all.

This pretty much sums it up i guess. What i don't get is if power consumption was so important to them why didn't they go with a ARM cpu? Backward compatibility really isn't that important, and using a ARM cpu would have allowed them to redisign the Wii-U into a real tablet in the near future. Even X86 would have been way better.

ARM is way worse than the CPU in Wii U. And bc was always important to them.

The game does look nice across the board, but the Wii U version runs the worst & I'm guessing sold the worst.  Couple that with the alleged SDK problems/headachs & you can see why most 3rd parties are backing away and leaving the Wii U.

off topic:  It's starting to feel like Nintendo requiring their own hardware to play their games is kind of like if Disney stuck with HDDVD and forced people to buy an HDDVD player if they want to watch their movies.  It just seems kind of anti-consumer to hold your games hostage on hardware that doesn't have any other real support.

This isn't the position Nintendo wanted to be in, you remember all the talk about the Wii U being a system designed for 3rd parties and all the promises Nintendo made about great 3rd party support.  This isn't how they wanted it to be.

ARM cpu these are actually really good, especially if you are looking for something that doesn't take to much power. It has taken Intel years to get a X86 chip that can give some competition in this market. When it comes to raw performance even older ARM chips beat the 360's Xenon in per core performance, definitely at higher clock speeds. It's to bad we don't know when these first plans were made but i'm guessing it must have been 2009 or even earlier, before Nintendo could have known mobile chips would develop so fast or that X86 might have been an option.

Even with the current PowerPC based design, why go so low in power? Wii-U power draw is less then 40W at most for the enitre system, upping the clock speed considerably would still have kept the power consumption at very acceptabel rates.

This is a valid point. I recall all the noise generated when No More Heroes sold what it did on Wii (which Suda was actually proud of, but let's hush our mouths about reasonable expectations), and yet absolutely nothing came out when the game sold less on PS3. There were only a small group of Nintendo-exclusive third party games that really could have sold significantly better than they did had they gone to another platform, and the multiplats that sell especially poorly in comparison do so because they are... especially worse. Often with large, important features missing.

I don't care what anyone has to say about the Wii U, I love it like a parent loves his imperfect child.

This is one of the most insightful and critically penetrating commentary I've ever read on the Wii U. Spot on Sir. 

I love the Disney analogy; I too want to be able to play Nintendo games without being forced to buy a console I consider redudant and vastly inferior to my present console of choice (PS4).

i don't see the problem with not looking at PSN and Live. Nintendo likes to innovate and do their own thing.
Thats what makes some people hate them but its also reasons a lot of us love them.

Their online capabilities are way beyond the original Wii and they will learn over time and it will continue to get better.

Their support since then has gotten better as mentioned by Indy developers and Nintendo has no issues with games that work online with environment other than the Wii U's. i think that is great.

As well last time i checked their online capabilities are free. You can't even use Netflix with the xbox one unless your online and my understanding is the ps4 has now gone to a more paid system than before for online capabilities.

edit:I should mention i am a developer and tech support fun is just part of the way things are.  you have to work hard at getting their attention sometime...but again my understanding is Nintendo has improved in that domain.

Do they have more work to get better? Of course.  Sony and Microsoft arent without their flaws.

Devs still looks little lazy to me. We all know since N64 NIntendo is doing its own thing. They want something similar to Sony/Microsoft. And we all know this never going to happen.

And this can be positive and negative for Nintendo.

Is good because we know we will have unique experiences in Ninty consoles. Is bad because we know we won't get the same games others will.