I’m surprised we got so far into the week without a next-generation console rumour to be honest. To make up for it however, we’ve been gifted a whole range of “this console is better than this console” rumours today, along with reports on chips, graphics cards, and overall power; so let’s kick this off shall we?

First up, sources at Develop claim that the Wii U will far outperform our current expectations for the hardware. Apparently it’ll be twice as powerful as the Xbox 360, making it more powerful than originally cited. That said, apparently it’s not as powerful as developers were promised with the source claiming studios are having to “de-scale their plans”. Where this leaves the Wii U is anyone’s guess. As far as we knew, it was only just more powerful than the current crop of consoles, but now there are suggestions that at double the power it falls short of developers original expectations.

Keeping up so far? Good.

Not set on being outperformed by Nintendo, Microsoft are preparing to ship the next Xbox in late October/early November 2013 with it packing six times the processing power of the Xbox 360, that’s according to sources at IGN though. This will all be achieved using a processor similar to the AMD 6000 series, rather than the 7000 series reported elsewhere. The Radeon HD 6670 is a card specifically mentioned, which begs the questions: how is it possibly outputting six times the power of the 360 using a card akin to a mid-range card at the moment. If this turns out to be true, the next Xbox would unlikely actually be the powerhouse many are hoping for.

However, there’s a twist. As according to IGN’s sources it would not only mean that the next Xbox would be six times the power of the Xbox 360, but would “yield 20-percent greater performance than Nintendo’s forthcoming console, the Wii U.” But the Wii U is going to be twice the power of the 360? These numbers don’t add up that’s for sure.

Unfortunately, the PlayStation 4 was absent when picking numbers for folds of power, but we already know it’s going to be “more powerful” than the next Xbox, according to some other sources at least.

So what can we derive from all of this?

Wii U ~ (Xbox 360 x (20% or 200%)) or ((PlayStation or Xbox 360) x <10%)

Next Xbox ~ (Xbox 360 x 600%) or (((Xbox 360 x (20% or 200%)) or ((PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360) x <10%)) x 20%)

PlayStation 4 > (Xbox 360 x 600%) or (((Xbox 360 x (20% or 200%)) or ((PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360) x <10%)) x 20%)

Simple…