http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-04-02-wii-u-less-powerful-than-ps3-xbox-360-developers-say

"No, it's not up to the same level as the PS3 or the 360," said one developer who's been working with the Wii U. What does that mean? "The graphics are just not as powerful," reiterated the source.

Anonymous developer

Funny thing is neogaf confirmed that wiiu actually has less shaders

"This developer is not alone in their opinion. Another developer at a major company confirmed this point of view. "Yeah, that's true. It doesn't produce graphics as well as the PS3 or the 360," said the source. "There aren't as many shaders, it's not as capable. Sure, some things are better, mostly as a result of it being a more modern design. But overall the Wii U just can't quite keep up."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-26-darksiders-2-dev-wii-u-hardware-on-par-with-current-gen

"So far the hardware's been on par with what we have with the current generations. Based on what I understand, the resolution and textures and polycounts and all that stuff, we're not going to being doing anything to up-rez the game, but we'll take advantage of the controller for sure."

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/09/developer_interview_black_forest_games_on_bringing_giana_sisters_twisted_dreams_to_wii_u

""Overall the hardware itself is slightly faster than the other current-gen consoles. 

"Then we started working on the port, we already had our game released on the X360, and going from a console release to Wii U is easier since the consoles have very similar performance characteristics"

http://mynintendonews.com/2013/05/17/ea-senior-engineer-the-wii-u-is-crap-less-powerful-than-an-xbox-360/

EA SENIOR ENGINEER: ‘THE WII U IS CRAP, LESS POWERFUL THAN AN XBOX 360′

1st article is seriously outdated and invalid as it was written in April of 2012, way before Wii U's launch and one to two months before specifications were finalized and before Wii U was even mass produced also there were no final development kits nor the software/firmware/OS/API was finalized. This "anonymous" developer was likely a troll or a Sony/Microsoft fan who decided to spread misinformation, even if that "anonymous developer" was credible and he was correct as I wrote before: ...way before Wii U's launch and one to two months before specifications were finalized and before Wii U was even mass produced also there were no final development kits nor the software/firmware/OS/API was finalized.

2nd article is also seriously outdated and invalid as it was writen in March of 2014 thus two to three before finalization of Wii U's design and its mass production so it is basically same as above also I need to point out that team that ported Darksiders 2 were on very limited budget and it is known that 4 to 6 people worked on the port. Again: ...way before Wii U's launch and one to two months before specifications were finalized and before Wii U was even mass produced also there were no final development kits nor the software/firmware/OS/API was finalized.

3rd article is basically your how you interpret it, developer said that Wii U is not a leap as Xbox One nor PlayStation 4 basically. You can compare Xbox 360 and Wii U and see that the leap is not as big as Xbox 360 to Xbox One yet we can't compare Wii U to Xbox 360 because it is not successor to it. They ported Xbox 360 version of the game to Wii U so of course they won't be able to really utilize the hardware because most of the game code and engine optimizations were designed for 360 and not Wii U. If they designed a game engine just for Wii U then they would have really seen the capability of it.

4st article is just a EA engineer being FOS and spreading BS yet I remember reading that someone dig out on some site information about his career, to be more precise... About what games he worked on and from what I remember he never worked on any hardware from Nintendo in his entire career. That guy didn't even had a development kit and this was all debunked, the guy was mad or something and he works for EA and you know that EA left Wii U bandwagon because its crippled, overpriced late ports didn't sold well because they were crippled, overpriced late ports.

Also you need to update to yourself about NeoGAF. It has been debunked and you state a pure rumor without any evidence as a fact...

I look forward to your response that won't be logical nor rational... Your confirmation bias makes me laugh, thanks for the good laughs.

A pity that your still arguing about specs when you clearly demonstrated no knowledge against your skirmish with Pemalite or the users at anandtech LOL.

We have discussed Anandtech thing over and over again yet you simply can not learn and remember what I said? Okay. Get your head checked out because it seems you can't remember things or you have a selective memory loss and/or confirmation bias. Pemalite is above my league, that is his job(?) while I have a hobby yet that does not mean I don't know anything and I have demostrated knowledge while you just twisted things out of context and said some obvious BS which Megafenix corrected you then you dare to confront him and say he is wrong at that or that yet he is a computer engineer.

As I wrote before about Anandtech, that was way before I did my own research and that was compilation of various rumors, speculations and facts.

I almost pity you, you are just provoking people and you always get burned...

It doesn't matter seeing as how your knowledge on hardware didn't get better as evidenced by your argument with a hacker on twitter by the alias of marcan42 LOL. What evidence? Your imaginary evidence? I was having a discussion with Marcan42 about the CPU, he only made claims about Wii U's CPU yet there wasn't any code and PowerPC 476 FP was a good candidate, I stopped once a part of document involving Wii U's CPU was leaked by someone. He presented a definitive evidence that supported his claim of PowerPC 750 thus I accepted it, saying that my knowledge on hardware didn't get better is fallacy and you just present imaginary evidence. You should shut up about "knowledge on hardware" because I and Megafenix proved you wrong yet you continued with your non sense involving hardware. I made some mistakes, but that is because I am not really good at explaining things, that is my flaw while you dont understand one bit what are you talking about.

It's funny how you didn't know that Pemalite was a freelance programmer and not a professional at that. It seems you don't know meaning of "freelancer", to put it simply, it is a self-employed person/individual. Can you explain me why a Freelance programmer can't possibly reach programming skill of a "professional", Pemalite was maybe previously a professional programmer and later one decided to be a freelancer. How could I know if Pemalite is freelancer or professional? I wasn't interest in his background while you are interested which is either curiosity or mere hate towards me.

I find it extremely ironic that some hobbyist programmer knows more than a computer engineer but then again megafenix has yet to show his credentials so he's obviously the one BS'ing seeing as how he got banned on beyond 3d while getting his info rejected by the likes of someone with similar views as Pemalite such as myself. First you said freelancer now hobbyist programmer, which is it? Anyway a hobbyist programmer could have experience of a professional/freelance programmer as over time you aquire knowledge and improve your skill. Pemalite is surely far more on the market than Megafenix that just graduated and he showed me his credentials yet I can't show it to you because it would be violation of privacy. He got banned on Beyond 3D because he had a different opinion than others and we hade discussed already Fatslob yet you have selective memory loss or something. Megafenix was "rejected" by individuals that reject anything slightly positive involving Nintendo and always choose lowest common denominator when comes to Nintendo.

You still haven't done any research based on how you threw a fit towards marcan42 on twitter.

Why should I waste my time?

Your the one who gets provoked. It's just that you'd be able to spread your awful propaganda more easily but Pemalite and I are preventing it from happening and you'd also likely get into trouble with others like drkohler and ViktorBKK.

You know you sound kinda dull and ignorant. Oh... You are stoping me from doing a imaginary "propaganda". Imaginary that and that and that and that and you continue with imaginary stuff like you are a kid.

Hell you probably don't even know the difference between an Intel MIC or an AMD fusion LMAO.

AMD is Fusion is both CPU and GPU in one/same chip/die. MIC is something like Larrabee or Knights Landing? Bunch of x86 cores integrated together in parallelization with purpose of being something akin of a GPU.

eyeofcore said:

What evidence? Your imaginary evidence? I was having a discussion with Marcan42 about the CPU, he only made claims about Wii U's CPU yet there wasn't any code and PowerPC 476 FP was a good candidate, I stopped once a part of document involving Wii U's CPU was leaked by someone. He presented a definitive evidence that supported his claim of PowerPC 750 thus I accepted it, saying that my knowledge on hardware didn't get better is fallacy and you just present imaginary evidence. You should shut up about "knowledge on hardware" because I and Megafenix proved you wrong yet you continued with your non sense involving hardware. I made some mistakes, but that is because I am not really good at explaining things, that is my flaw while you dont understand one bit what are you talking about.

eyeofcore said:

It seems you don't know meaning of "freelancer", to put it simply, it is a self-employed person/individual. Can you explain me why a Freelance programmer can't possibly reach programming skill of a "professional", Pemalite was maybe previously a professional programmer and later one decided to be a freelancer. How could I know if Pemalite is freelancer or professional? I wasn't interest in his background while you are interested which is either curiosity or mere hate towards me.

eyeofcore said:

First you said freelancer now hobbyist programmer, which is it? Anyway a hobbyist programmer could have experience of a professional/freelance programmer as over time you aquire knowledge and improve your skill. Pemalite is surely far more on the market than Megafenix that just graduated and he showed me his credentials yet I can't show it to you because it would be violation of privacy. He got banned on Beyond 3D because he had a different opinionthan others and we hade discussed already Fatslob yet you have selective memory loss or something. Megafenix was "rejected" by individuals that reject anything slightly positive involving Nintendo and always choose lowest common denominator when comes to Nintendo.

eyeofcore said:

Why should I waste my time?

eyeofcore said:

You know you sound kinda dull and ignorant. Oh... You are stoping me from doing a imaginary "propaganda". Imaginary that and that and that and that and you continue with imaginary stuff like you are a kid.

eyeofcore said:

AMD is Fusion is both CPU and GPU in one/same chip/die. MIC is something like Larrabee or Knights Landing? Bunch of x86 cores integrated together in parallelization with purpose of being something akin of a GPU.