Sure, confirmed 720p30 btw

Don't have any problems with 720p 30fps as long as it looks good and doesn't have a shedload of screen tearing. You're obviously going to see a difference in IQ between the Wii U and the other two SKUs due to the difference in horsepower between them...but it speaks volumes that the PS3 and 360 SKUs were canned due to them not being powerful enough to do the game justice and that the Wii U SKU is on its way.

I've said it before but there are going to be a fair few people surprised (some pleasantly, some not so pleasantly lol) at how it's going to look.

Nintendo have designed the Wii U to be a 720p machine, the PS4 has been designed to be a 1080p machine and the Xbox One is a bit of an oddball being somewhere in between, albeit closer to the PS4 than the Wii U.

There are limitations, the eDRAM isn't exactly plentifull to hold everything.
If you still don't have the data needed for processing in the eDRAM, you still have to travel all the way down to system memory, that's the worse case scenario and it *will* happen on the odd occassion.

But yes, it can, the eDRAM can be treated like an L3 cache.

You're missing the point. The fact that you see this as "camps" and treat it like some kind of high school clique war shows you're taking all this far too seriously, and you're making the forums a less pleasant place with your hostility. And you're projecting; it's you who feels the need to try to turn this in to some kind of passive aggressive mud flinging session at every opportunity.

The secret dev article cannot be considered gospel behind the veil of anonymity, but some of what is said tallies with what named developers have stated. So while it is not as reliable a source as a named dev, some of its claims seem to be believable, even if others are unsubstantiated. 

Trine 2 is the best technical example so far, (It's confirmed to be beyond PS3/360's capabilities) but it is not pushing the system's limits, because it's a launch title not made from the ground up. No game made for Wii U so far is pushing its limits, because there are no graphically ambitious ones built from the ground up yet.

Think about it; how many consoles were maxed out in their first 16 months?

If you'd read my posts you'd know I have NEVER claimed that Wii U will become 1080p standard. I believe as a I always have; that  (A) Wii U's larger RAM and more modern GPU will allow it to produce games with improved textures and polish over PS3/360, similar to, say, the Gamecube/Xbox's advantage over PS2, and (B) that Wii U's graphics will improve with time, just like any console, so what we've seen so far is not its full power.

And the idea that generations are defined by huge graphical leaps died a decade ago.

So do an awful lot of other slight variances on otherwise horribly regurgitated and unoriginal themes. It's nothing new.

I am not part of any "camp", unless the "camp" you're referring to is that graphics are not the be-all, end-all of gaming.

However, when it COMES to discussing graphics, as I originally stated, it's rather humorous (IE also rather silly as fuck), to see people compare pics of games with "realistic" visuals with games that have "cartoon" visuals, and try to pass that off as proof that their system is better, or whatever other childish fan*** nonsense you wish to imagine. It simply is not always relevant, or true. There are many "cartoon" styled games that I guarantee push their given system's hardware harder than "realistic" looking games on the same system. Art style is irrelevant. It's what actually goes into MAKING those graphics, that taxes a console.

Not really, these days everybody is trying to make realisitc graphics look better, realisitc graphics are much more technically demanding then cartoony games, espcially since nobody is really trying tu push that envelope anymore, realistic games have way more detailed characters and need good enemy ai, while cartoony games don't, case in point mario galaxy 1 and 2, and zelda wind waker, are still among the best looking cartoony when running dolphin emulator, while realistic games look like crap from that hardware era because they have advanced so much.

nonsense. you know cel-shading and such are quite tasking in terms of raw power right?

thats precisely why everything else has to be toned down a lil bit. but just a bit. not a massive difference over standard drawn graphics

what does that have to with anything? cell shading games simply don't have the level of detail realistic games have. what are the most graphically demanding games these days. do you see any cartoony/cell shading games that are pushing the pc to its limits, they don't exist, zelda wind waker was made for hardware thats over 12 years old and still one of the best looking cartoony games out there, can you say the samething for a realitic looking game. cartoony games are more about art style then pushing the hardware.

Jett Rocket is cartoony, yet it arguably makes the best use of the Wii GPU of any game on the system, with tons of (for the hardware) advanced effects while running at 60fps.