If someone isn't sharing specs then I would think it's because they aren't worth comparing which tells me the others are more powerful and that ends that. We are in the current and there's no point comparing past consoles. Doesn't mean anything. Wii is less powerful than other two but really shines for controls. I made my choice and I love it. Don't need specs to enjoy gaming and the only ones that seem to care so much about the Wii's hardware are the one's that want to bash it anyway so really who gives a @#*$.

Just tell the bloke that the Wii is capable of bump, gloss and diffuse mapping, specularity, depth of field, focus blur, high res 4 layered textures, real-time reflection and refraction for water, character models and weapons, heat distortion, environment mapping and HDR lighting.

And there's plenty more impressive visual effects and performance to come from the Quantum3 engine amongst others (can't remember the names of the engines powering Silent Hill, Cursed Mountain and Red Steel 2 now, sorry!).

Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles is also looking impressive imo.

The eye candy bar has been raised for Wii third party titles and imo they've hardly scratched the surface of what the Wii can do.

I can't remember a time when Nintendo has never done this... Nintendo waits until they can develop a machine with the specs they want at a price the consumers can afford and it won't mean them taking a loss.