How did they dupe you? What have they told you about their product that turned out to be false?

I was talking to a friend today after she picked up her Wii U and she was shocked by how negative EBGames staff was about the Wii. She liked the Wii (and she likes her XBox 360 and PS3) and doesn't understand why people are angry at Nintendo for producing products at a reasonable price and focusing on developing games/features that consumers obviously want.

Nintendo didn't promise bleeding edge graphics with the Nintendo DS, Wii, 3DS or Wii U they only promised new gameplay experiences; and Nintendo delivered. They (obviously) ran into a lot of roadblocks from third party publishers which prevented the development of a lot of "core" content for the Wii but, being that this content existed on the Dreamcast, PS2, XBox, Gamecube and PSP and that these publishers are now producing similar content for the 3DS it can't be said that lack of processing power prevented the creation of these games; and since many (weak) developers produced games in these genres that played fine but had (typically) weak content it can't be said that the UI prevented these games. Releasing after publishers dedicated resources to HD console games was a huge problem for Nintendo made worse because Nintendo didn't have a strong enough relationship or sales record with third party publishers to encourage strong support.

We don't know whether their efforts have been successful or not, and we likely won't know for sure until the generation is well underway, but it seems like Nintendo has taken steps to avoid the same mistakes they made in the last generation.

Ultimately, you can choose to buy a Wii U based on whether you want the hardware or not, but the only person who mislead you about what the Wii was is you.

Aye Bayonetta 2 is aimed 100% for the whole family to gather around her lovely physics filled ass and enjoy :D Also metroid prime, Resi 4 RE:Make on the Gamecube. The view that Nintendo don't produce more than babysitting tools is far from the truth.

To be fair, Shin'en have said that Nano Assault Neo uses  effects not possible on PS360, and the devs behind Trine 2: Director's Cut have said that it would have to be cut down to be ported to PS360.
The gap just isn't visibly obvious yet.

The real answer though, is that it's next gen because it's the successor to a current gen system, simple as that.

At the time of posting this, 45 people clearly didn't get an education as they do not know the meanings of generation.

kids born next generation can't be the same generation as this so it is a next gen

It comes with an HDMI cable standard.

All current gen consoles come with composite cables. That's how I know.

Call of Shit 2 barely looked better than Resident Evil 4 and Halo 2. Xbox 360 was trash when it launched and it was trash until they made the slim model.

moderated Kasz216  ReEdit - Or Amp, guess he beat me to it.

Is Nintendo making it? No, they are funding its production. They also did that with Rare, didn't they? Nintendo on its own is a family oriented gaming company. I highly doubt that Miyamoto would disagree as well. Nintendo as a first party is aimed at children and families. They want you to game on the couch with your parents and grandparents or friends together. Nintendo may have won whats left of this gen, but they want the interest that was never focused on the Wii and that was the core games that was basically everywhere else. They want the multiplayer, and high budget games associated with them as well. Nintendos worst selling consoles always come as consequence to trying to gain the core by themselves. N64? GC? Exactly.

The way I see it, WiiU is Nintendo's second hardware in the same generation. It's like they re-released Gamecube hardware as 'Wii' and extended that generation. Now they are catching up HD consoles with WiiU.

You know, that's probably the best answer yet, and probably the most true.

A lot better than the "durr because 8 comes after 7" posts that completely fail to understand what the OP is asking.