Only if Wii U had a Nvidia GPU right though BG?
True, he's not in a position to mince whether the Wii U is 0% more powerful than PS360, 20% more, or 50% more. It seems clear it's not a generation leap though. I imagine MS and Sony breathe a sigh of relief (but no doubt they knew what Wii U was months or years ago), and Pachter was right.
At this point we'd probably be happy if Wii U was a stock 360 with 1GB of RAM instead of 512 LOL. That would be pretty nice.
I think the other thing this whole new hullballo indicates, is one of the difficulties I knew Wii U would face right along, even if it is lets say, 30% more powerful than current gen, all it's going to get are straight PS360 ports. Nobody is going to bother taking advantage of that 30% except Nintendo themselves (and they arent exactly know for cutting edge mature games anyway). For the same reason PC's, which are already 10X more powerful than current gen, usually just get quick minor upgrades at best from the console version. Wii U likely wont even get that, because 1.3X is a lot different than 10X. Another example here is the Xbox-PS2 era, where Xbox despite being maybe 2X PS2 imo, mostly just got a lot of PS2 ports with little difference.