For the life of me, I still cannot understand why (with such a big difference in specs) the Wii U is still just $50 cheaper than the X1. I mean, I know the tablet add to the cost but damn..  

Everyone involved in the Wii U's design (and making the contracts for the parts) should be fired.

Oh dear, I tried to stay away, but I see that ghost of Zero999 still lives in some folks here. Please just stop posting nonsense if you don't understand how hardware works.

What do I say to something like that?  You have a right to your opinion but I disagree.  You never played Bayonetta 2 have you?

Because the cost theory of value doesn't always hold. Additonally higher performance <=/=> higher costs. Look at the price of a new PS3. 

What do you see in this picture ? I'm looking at it, and it feels so outdated, gross, static and aliased... just look at the sorry blurred background, the old school shadows.

For other screenshots, some are very appealing visually speaking (I really like the nintendo 2014), but except for the platinum screenshot, you can see the extreme technical weakness : simplistic background (or a black one color background !), simpliest shadow. simple textures (or a form a gouraud shading), mostly cubic elements, very simple lighting, low poly everywhere... And I mean, it's far from being on par with the hardware. Ok, I do believe it's also for part art direction and style, but in term of internal objective it was clearly more "let's make the best impression we can on a tight schedule and for a tight cost" than "let's push the hardware !". I don't know if it's the same for you, but I have a friend that is totally nintendo fan (and there is nothing wrong with that, he like the games), and he's a great guy and it's always a pleasure to play with him... but when we talk graphics, you really feel he doesn't know anything about what happened outside nintendo for the last 10 years. I mean, the technical satisfaction when you see a lot of lights, a big monster on the screen, a texture moving like a strange blob, a bump mapping we got it 10 years ago. You see TLOU, and like it or not in term of style, that's a whole different level, texture are complex, not repetitives, the water is impressive, it's detailed, you can see up to a very far distance, the shaders are fine art, the lighting is rich, shadows are greats, the animations is detailed and interact with the background, etc.

well that game is more about physics than graphics.

I would have used this pic for art of balance instead:




Also, some more pics








People forguet that those are 60fps games.

I havent played it but I have seen gameplay on someone else house.  The game looks good but I feel GOW 3 looks better.  Have you seen gow 3 in action aside from youtube?. the character models looks very good.   Anyway maybe its the artstyle that IMO makes looks better or the fact that it runs 720 30fps.  Most wii u games runs at 60fps

I love how Splatoon looks.

I haven't seen many PS4 games that surpass the Kronos battle in GoW3 tbh. That's probably the best looking scene in the entire game.