The system is underpowered for all, but Nintendo's first party titles,  which prioritize artistic visuals over technically advanced graphics.    Third parties don't want to make dumbed down ugly ports of great Xbox or Playstation titles that aren't going to sell on the Wii U.     Face it,   Nintendos rep with third partie is bad,  and Nintendo's fault alone.    Stop crying because they don't make to make games for it.   Better yet,  buy another (better) console.ChiefFreeman

I'd just get the Wii U version.

Depending on how the economy is by 2020, I'd say around 3-7x as powerful as the PS4.

Killzone is well.. killzone, an average franchise to begin with, knack looks terrible and shallow and Driveclub looks like a game stuck in between generations especially when compared to GT6 and Forza 5.

Compared to Titanfall, MGS5, FF15 and Destiny these titles look, in the case of KZ, mediocre and in the case of the other two, terrible. I really don't know how someone could buy a console day one for those titles. 

GD1551

This is the most ridiculous statement I've read.    Nintendo is to blame for their current predicament with third parties.   Any fool could see that, and it goes back to the N64 generation.    Look at the n64, Gamecube, Wii and Wii U.    Can you blame them for not wanting to make games on a system that isn't selling worth a damn?    How would they recoup the cost of developing the games?ChiefFreeman

Several devs stating that Wii U's CPU is under-powered, for example:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=500621

 

If the console had some exclusive games with mass appeal, the install base would already grow by now...

nameless12345

And you or I may not exactly like it but, NSMBU was that game with mass appeal. Out of the initial 3 million Wii U buyers, 2 million of them bought a copy of NSMBU. 

How were 3rd parties making BS excuses when they were facing hardware issues and lack of audience for their games on the system?

Seems to me Nintendo are to blame for providing in-sufficient hardware and not inviting a big enough audience...

nameless12345

"making a console on-par with the current generation". I stopped reading at this part.

The Wii U's underperfomance in sales was due to lack of games and advertisement. 70% of the blame on third party devs making bs excuses for not putting games on the Wii U, 30% of the blame on Nintendo for not advertising the Wii U. Nothing more, nothing less.

This upcoming gen, we'll use a third party developer's mistakes to gauge the power of a console. So guys, if a game has any glitches, frame rate dips, its textures not loaded peoperly etc, just blame it on the console and not the dev. That makes so much more sense.