So how powerful is the Wii U exactly? Let’s look at all the evidence (Wii U)

This is getting silly now. With all the world’s hardcore eyes on it after the miserably low-res Wii years, Nintendo has a lot to prove with the Wii U. Supposedly the Nintendo console for everyone, with enough cool tricks to please the casual player and enough horsepower to provide for the more demanding core player, this next console really has to deliver in that latter respect. It has to in order to convice the disenfranchised traditional gamer that Nintendo is still a viable option. And it has to if the Wii U is going to have any hope of remaining a viable hardcore option if the Xbox 720 and PS4 turn up at next year’s E3 (though they probably won’t).

But Nintendo still won’t release anything concrete on the machine’s specs. We’ve had some stunning tech demos, but past those, nothing bar new, vague, contradictory reports from various sources, bringing us a different story every day. Is it 50% more powerful than a PS3? Is it 27% less powerful than a Vectrex? I want to know, and you do too, and in order to find out I’ve compiled every report so far and fine-toothed the lot of them to try to make some kind of overall conclusion. Click on, and you will find my findings.

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