This is not true. Nintendo made a profit in the last financial year 2012/2013 although they made an operating loss.

You might be referring to quaterly results which the media is in a hurry to blow out of proportions in the current Nintendoom  media narrative.

They expect to bounce back into profit on just 3.6m Wii U sales this current fiscal year 2014/2015.

Oops sorry, i was wrong about 2012 but both the others were losses.

Year ended March 31, 2012: Net loss of 43,204 (million yen) - http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2012/120426e.pdf
Year Ended March 31, 2013: Net profit of 7,099 (million yen) - http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2013/130424e.pdf
Year Ended March 31, 2014: Net loss of 23,222 (million yen) - http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140507e.pdf

Yeah, yu're right but the media still tries too hard to make it seem Nintendo are in some financial trouble though. The life cycle of a new console these days tend to start with losses. Nintendo is not at risk of financial collapse anytime soon.

Seeing it myself through pictures chosen to prove a point by someone else. It's just as bad if not worse than PR. There is not only super sampled screenshots, there are also low res screen shots. Someone could also be getting PC screenshots from someone who took a screen capture on a insanely expensive gaming PC and claim it's on another system. There is just too many ways to manipulate a screenshot for me to take them seriously. Some people even get screenshots by taking them from youtube directs (Downloading the direct, loading it up in a media creator amd getting a screenshot), but these too are gotten from compressed video and are not accurately displaying what the game looks like.

I'm not saying all PS4 games are super sampled, and all Wii U games are gotten off of compressed video, all I'm saying is these screenshots should be taken with a grain of salt. They're chosen to prove a point.  When people take those as "proof" is when those screenshots can be more hurtful or helpful than PR.

1080p is how clear the picture is rendered, 60fps determines how clear the picture stays while in motion. And that's just the bottom basics of 60fps. Unstable framerates effect how the entire game playes. This could be directly associated with lag on an online match, or playing the game in slow motion and not executing commands when pressing buttons. There is also screen jumping, or dropping frames, which can result in running off ledges, ect. 

These are hardly just marketing words, but thank you.  

Great post.

The difference from current to last gen is incredible from those graphs.

They also make the PS3 look bad, but it has some amazing games and graphics (I love my PS3)

 Do the PS3 graphs take account of using SPU's properly ?

No, actually even RSX is not so easily quantified, due to non-unified shader architecture. So, in the end, you have Sony 1st parties that can squeeze everything from RSX and SPUs and make PS3 more powerfull than 360, and lot of 3rd parties (specially in early years) not capable of doing that and making PS3 looking weaker.

Probably already been discussed and likely not going to change the OP, but your WiiU info is not correct and has been largely proven wrong in many highly technical discussions.

See my sig for a bunch of the same arguments/data as well as the real (lower) settings.

Huh, so the WiiU's GPU peak is half of what we used to think?

According to speculations and best guesses on where tech heads would place it based on if it were the worst possible parts. 

But that usually translates into PS4 fan facts.