We all knew from Day One that the Wii U wouldn't be able to compete graphically with next gen XBox and PS. The Wii U to me is in a gen of its own, its an insult to call it part of the current gen but it will not live up graphic wise to the real next gen.
And its kinda bad that there is no real hype about the Wii U. Nintendo really coulda pushed this hard and got lots of sales due to their being no competition of new consoles, but i guess they figured that no competition was enough and they didn't have to try as hard.
Then again, with all the mario titles still to be released...