nordique
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Whether or not the Wii U is a "half step" really depends what Microsoft puts into the 720. Since Nintendo is most likely to be under and Sony is most likely to go over, I think the 720 will be what sets the bar for what "next-gen" power is. They could very well release a console that's only a minor step above the Wii U, in which case the Wii U would be a full gen leap.
The thing that always makes me laugh in these next gen threads are people acting as though the specs for MS and Sony's next consoles are set in stone.
Yes, I agree with this.
Just because the next Xbox is coming out later doesn't mean it will even be more powerful than the Wii U, assuming the Wii U specs are somewhat in line with what some posters have outlined -- with a logical and educated basis -- in the past. After all, the original Wii did come out a year after the Xbox 360. As did the PS3. And the Wii had a much different design philosophy, and the PS3 was weaker than the 360 in some (namely GPU related) aspects.
I should have clarified my comments were specific to the context I was replying to that poster with.