I don't think that he is necessarily right, but this console is a little perplexing. I got to spend a little bit of time with a Wii U this holiday at my local Best Buy, There were plenty of consoles left(both styles), which I was really surprised at. Generally, regardless of the manufacturer all consoles are sold out. This was before Christmas too. I couldn't believe it. Not too many people were checking it out, so I did.

Unfortunately, someone had broken one of the analog sticks and your player would constantly go left. But, I brushed this aside, understanding that some punk kid probably smashed it. I was a little surprised, because Nintendo is known for making very durable controllers, but who knows. The graphics looked wonderful on the Rayman Origins game. I got a little excited about the console for the first time. It really looked great!

So, having money in my pocket I started checking out the games that it offered. Wow, what a disappointment. Most of the games, I already owned. I think that I saw Zombi U, and the new Mario were the only titles I would possibly be interested in. And, I'm pretty bored of Mario. The only time I really enjoy it is when I play with my kids. Don't get me wrong, I know that launch line-ups are usually pretty slim, and sometimes downright awful. But most of the games were already on other consoles.

I decided not to pick it up. I almost bought it for my son, but I wasn't sure. I knew he would probably want one, and they would all be sold out the day after Christmas. Whatever. If he really wanted one, we could pre-order one for the next shipment(hopefully). I ended up buying my son a $250 Visa gift card. I would throw in the extra cash for the premium one, if he wanted it.The day after Christmas comes, and we go to Best Buy. My son was roaring to spend his gift card, and we walked right up to the Wii U display. I was absolutely shocked that there were plenty of Wii U's left on display. When I mean plenty, about 30 or so were on the floor for purchase. The place was super busy, and no one was looking at the Wii U. I was curious to see what my son thought about Nintendo's newest console. Well, he ended up playing with it for about 2 minutes, and then left to check out the newest i-touch.

The fact is, I wasn't that shocked. I've been a gaming nerd for a long time. As always, I was very excited/curious about this new console. Aside from the graphics, which again looked wonderful, I wasn't very impressed. I was a little dumbfounded. I was the guy that stood in line all night to purchase a Wii. So why did I feel this way? The answer is simple: the Wii U doesn't really offer anything that I want. I'm not saying that it won't in the future, but for now I'll just stick to my Wii, 360, and PS3.

All of that was to say that although I don't completely agree with the author of the review, I can understand where he is coming from. I truly hope that Nintendo ups their game, or they will have a very tough generation.

Sony and MS are likely to end the traditional hardware cycle after this generation, moving onto the streaming of content. That has been said for years now. Sony is clearly on the verge of making major announcements related to this.

Nintendo definetly doesn't understand the meaning of "stream" nor have they even been a player in the online community until about 2 months ago. Nintendo will become (has become) the one company that's constantly behind the times, they are clearly that company already in terms of hardware specs and software support. So it's easy to predict that nintendo will be the only major console manufacturer, still manufacturing consoles while Sony and MS have moved on and evolved. It looks to be the case.

We have no idea what Apple/Google/Steam/Nvidia have planned for the future of gaming. It seems like alot of companies are looking at the "Old Guard" (Sony/MS/nintendo) and realizing that the time for change is now. Streaming on Android/iOs is the future. Get used to it.

I could see that...the wii u is sorta like the wii and ds (or 3ds) morthing into one, conceptually speaking.

Now that's an exciting idea, and it would make sense.

Yeah, the company that streams video to its controller doesn't know what stream means.

I remember when people where saying that the 3DS was going to fail and the Vita was going to absolutely obliterate it.

These so called "journalist" are nothing more than over glorified bloggers.

Ah time will tell. I haven't handled one but I'll buy one next year after I get my 360 this year.

I' m not saying I think they are going to win. That is hard to determine untill we have at least concrete info about the competition. I'm just saying Wii U has me really excited and the Gamepad integration is seriousley amazing. It feels like a complete and proper form of what Sony tried to do with remote play. And it works really well.