Past weekend Skyrim was released for PC, PS3 and XBoX, I went for my PC copy and the shop was demostrating PS3 and PC versions so you can go and play with both. At first sight it was clear that PC version graphics were clearly superior to these of the PS3, and the PC version was running in "Normal" detail mode. To experiment a bit I did exit the game and switched the config to High detail level. Now Skyrim was looking clearly even better but the game was not playable at all, every few steps of when you were turning your sight around, the game starded to swap forever with the harddisk. With this level of detail Skyrim ran out of memory in a PC with 2GB RAM plus other 2GB in the video card.
RAM should be considered by Nintendo as one of the key values for the Wii U, and surpasing the competitors here should be easy having the PS3 with only 256MB.
Mandoble