TheDoritoKing

seems exagerated but bets are still on the PS4 winning the race, and microsoft eventualyl dropping out after they are done throwing money around.

I'm thinking a repeat of the 6th generation: PlayStation will completely dominate the gaming scene; Xbox will have a respectable showing, but wind up on life support in Japan; and Nintendo's offering will have slow sales but be full of cult classics. But I do see Valve playing a part with their new Steam Machine. 

Wii U isn't powerful enough to run battlefield 3.
No chance of running Battlefield 4.

Please tell me you're sarcastic  . Anyway, to my understanding the Wii U is two 360s taped together in the same sense that Wii was two GameCubes taped together, so it could indeed run it just fine. 

Lets take Battlefield for example, you have a giant map filled with buildings, grass, detail etc. The only real thing taken away would be the amount of grass on the field (The Ground Clutter) and tone down a tiny tiny bit on the detail. Overall, it wouldn't effect your personal gameplay experience unless you're a graphics whore. The game will run just as good as other consoles, just slight alterations. 

 

But for less detailed games like fighting games, there wouldn't be any downgrade at all since their isn't really much there to begin with. 

Seems about right, and most graphics-junkies usually go for ludicrous $900+ PCs and brag about them on /v/ anyways. But many fighting games do have quite detailed graphics from what I've seen.  

I don't even have a 1080p TV, let alone some multi-thousand dollar 4K monstrosity; so I don't see the point. 

I don't think it has a target audience

I assumed it was for kids too young for the 3D feature; those who can't see the 3D feature, or it just makes them sick; or those who couldn't afford a normal 3DS but still want to get their hands on Pokemon X/Y.