If you had cared to read. I did state the Gflops is not an accurate way to determine the capabilities of two different processors.
You can have a graphics processor that is 2 Teraflops and it can be slower than one that is 1 Teraflop. That is the entire point.

And searching around, I still haven't found reliable professional benchmark numbers for the Wii U CPU.
When it comes to SIMD though, I fully expect the Xbox 360's CPU to demolish the Wii U's CPU, but that isn't always going to be the case.
Point me to information that says otherwise please.
The WiiU also has that big fat piece of edram, which can act like an L4 cache, that kinda' reduces the cache miss hit penalty substantually, along with a shorter pipeline (Aka. Pentium 4 vs Core Duo), Out-of-order execution (Intel Atom Silvermont vs Bonnel)

The WiiU GPU can also do some tasks that would have been performed on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 graphics processors, such as frame buffer effects or Morphological Anti-Aliasing, which does even things up a bit in the Wii U's favor.

As for the GPU we *know* it's terascale derived. That means VLIW5. That means Tessellation. That means Radeon 4000/5000/low-edd 6000 that means modern techniques and functionality. It's not GCN 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 though, which is unfortunate.

And 45nm isn't power hungry, it's a mature process with very low amounts of leakage, granted it's old today...  But it's cheap and mature, perfect for a cheap  SoC which isn't going to be 5~ Billion transisters in size.

If Marcan is been honest, the CPU is practically 3 overcloked Gecko's for all intents and purposes ... 

I'm scratching my head wondering if it's supposed to perform better than the turds in the sub-HD twins ...

What do you mean by "frame-buffer effects" ? Do you mean post-processing ? That can be done with pixel shaders on GPUs with a DX9 feature set. MLAA is another post-process AA technique that never gained much traction. Personally I would've advertised support for custom sample locations like how Nvidia recently added it with 2nd gen Maxwell for MFAA. That feature is a boon for temporal anti aliasing ...

Tessellation performance in Evergreen is pitiable for the most part ... 

For all intents and purposes... Intel's latest CPU's is still based on a variation of the P6 architecture that debuted with the Pentium Pro decades ago.
Still night and day performance difference though.

Morphological AA also did gain *allot* of traction, in the console space.
Pretty much every Unreal Powered game used it to some degree... For good reason. It's cheap. Console's aren't PC's, they cannot afford to use the best of everything.
VLIW however is far better adept at handling such a task than the Geforce 7000 derviced GPU in the PS3 and the Radeon x19xx derived GPU in the Xbox 360... Which enabled an early concept of GPU compute.

And yes, Tessellation performance in Evergreen is pathetic, it's still vastly superior to the Xbox 360's Truform based Tessellation engine and the PS3's lack of one. That's a geometry advantage in the Wii U's favor.

The point is, the WiiU is more advanced than the XBox 360 and Playstation 3. It's not "Current gen" by any stretch, but still a decent jump.

At this point i just dont think Nintendo can win 3rd parties back, to win them back goes far beyond the console tech. Sony and MS now have massive amounts of developer support and tools, integrated systems to support games, Marketing budgets the list goes on and on. 

If they put out an identikit AMD build that the other 2 have even slightly more powerful, then yeah they will probably get ports of all the yearly franchises, but do you see people throwing aside there xbox or PS and friends on those platforms to play this years COD on Nintendo, great for Nintendo fans obviously, but its not going to help them gain marketshare.

Nintendo are fusing there consoles so they can concentrate all there user base into one place and so they can concentrate on making games that work on all there devices, instead of having to choose to make a mario game this year for this platform or that platform.

Ohh, so you mean what Nintendo did with the Wii? They sold over 100 million consoles to people who could not care less about Nintendo, but it was cheap, and popular in seniors homes!  Go Nintendo! Ohh wait, that was the exception, not the rule. Less than 10% of Wii owners bought a Wii U. Ouch.

Here are the facts: With the exception of the Wii, every single Nintendo home console has sold worse than its predecessor. Nintendo's sales continue to drop. Nintendo is forecasting the lowest year of sales, hardware wise, since they released the Game Boy in 1989. The Nintendo fan base is shrinking, and shrinking fast, and you're begging Nintendo to keep catering to that dwindling fan base. How on earth do you think this is a smart decision.

Nintendo has to do something to appeal to those 150 million people who buy playstations or xboxes instead of Wii Us, or they might as well stop making home consoles all together. At this rate the NX Home (if they're silly enough to try and make one platform with two different specs, and completely alienate third parties) will sell less than 10 million worldwide. What then?

10-15% might just be enough to remove bottlenecks. Actually 10-15% extra CPU power is pretty significant in the grand scheme of things. 

I think you are greatly understimating what GPU they can put in for $300, and Nintendo's priorities. While Nintendo has never lit the hardware charts, they've always had consoles that matched the predecessor (Wii matched XBOX, Wii U matches PS3.) For less than a $100 /per console cost of production + AMD profit (in bulk) Nintendo could get Pitcairn, Tobago or Bonaire XTX (surpasses XBOX ONE and matches PS4.) The only thing that will limit this is power consumption, but I am sure they will work out the specifics. That leaves $150-200 for the rest of the components.

The only way I would see Nintendo going for an Oland XT is if they are trying to reduce the price of their console to the $200-250 range. 

Exactly! I am a die hard Nintendo fan with brand loyalty been that way since birth. But if they continue down this track I will be just another fan they lose.  Honestly I should get some sort of award for sticking with them this long.

Would not matter to me personally. While more power does give you graphical edge, it all comes down to how that developer wants to create that game. Xenoblade Chronicles X looks fantastic (graphically speaking) in my opinion, but I am more drawn to the game-play mechanics and narrative elements that go into the game itself. Should those ideas be present, with good enough graphics to boot, then I am pleased.

Even if it isn't something ground-breaking in terms of horsepower, all Nintendo needs to do is make the NX more accessible for new consumers as opposed to siphoning off the existing base.

When it comes to NX power, another thing to consider is Nintendo's history of console power consumption, & going off that, NX is guaranteed to consume under 50 watts.

Then you have to consider the fabrication process node...will Nintendo go with 14/16 nm, or 22/28 nm? The 14nm Zen apu by AMD would give Nintendo great performance per watt but may be costly. If they go with the more mature node, don't expect a big jump.

Wii U is nothing like Wii so that comparison falls flat on its face. Wii was cheap, simple, had great marketing, lacked software droughts, introduced a lot of new IP/concepts, had low development costs, etc. basically the exact opposite of Wii U.

Nintendo lost the Wii audience not because people no longer liked them but because Nintendo failed to adapt to the changing market and released an unappealing device.

The unified concept makes the most sense for Nintendo on many levels, creating a single platform available in various form factors reduces R&D costs significantly compared to making 2 completely separate platforms, developing games for a single platform vs 2 separate platforms is much more cost and time effective, its much easier and more cost effective to market one single line of devices than to market 2 distinct platforms, there will no longer be software droughts from Nintendo because all of their games will be available on either form factor, Nintendo can diversify their portfolio by creating new IP and reviving old IP at a faster rate since they are no longer forced to make 2 separate entries of all their franchises, 3rd parties are more likely to support a single Nintendo platform vs supporting 2 Nintendo platforms.

The only 3rd parties that would be alienated are the ones that don't and have never really supported Nintendo, companies like Take-Two or Bethesda. Japanese devs like Atlus, Level-5, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Koei Tecmo will all likely be on board as well as Western devs like Activision, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros with their more family/kids/casual focused software, indies will also like this setup.

Also there is the rumor from Nikkei, which is a pretty reliable source, that Nintendo is planning on using a form of Android for its OS making it extremely easy to port over mobile games to their devices. As devs start abandoning previous gen devices, it seems like they will replace them by making mobile versions kinda like we have seen with Arkham Knight/Mortal Kombat X getting mobile versions, I could see other AAA titles like Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed start to get smaller mobile versions in place of PS3/360 versions. These games coming to NX will benefit Nintendo.

Then there is also the new membership/rewards program that Nintendo is about to roll out where Iwata mentioned things like discounts based on how many games u buy and discounts for referring games to friends. This plan will help make software more affordable for consumers.

Nintendo is also set to significantly increase marketing through various means. Mobile games/apps and IP licensing such as theme park attractions & films/series. These things will make Nintendo more recognizable to millions of people while also generating a ton of revenue for them.

More affordable hardware/software, vastly greater release schedule, increased marketing, among other things can certainly make Nintendo devices much more attractive to consumers, largely the family/kids/casual markets. I have yet to hear from anybody how making a device with a huge focus on the PS/XB audience could succeed, the only argument seems to be, "make more powerful hardware than the competitors and everything will just fall into place".