Very valid points, I think 3DS is definitely a competitor and many Nintendo fans just bought one and its Marios or are about to. Wii U just isn't a strong enough value with cheaper alternatives offering both its multiplats and even Mario as you've pointed out. To truly take off it needs some gaming experiences you can't get elsewhere, a price cut, or both. These will come.

You have a point but the wii u will catch on. I have a lot have friends that wanted a 3ds for christmas and said they would get a wii u next year. some of my friends are waiting for a price drop.

i dont doubt the WiiU will have better sales in the future, but i think this is one of the reasons its not selling so well now. i dont think anybody mentioned this on the site before and wanted to discuss it. 

exactly, and this is something nintendo doesnt seem to get. its like they are thinking that mario = sales right away. we want core gamers? port assasins creed and CoD and get bayonetta and zombieU. i honestly am starting to think that nintendo dont know what they are doing. they are trying to get everybody, the core, the casuals and nintendo fans but are actually failing to get any

Let's hope it comes out before Vitality Sensor U

I actually think Nintendo didn't market the Wii U with full force like they have done with other consoles before. This is because they probably didn't want to create a huge demand and fall short of supply, which I believe was the case for the Wii. They probably thought that all the hardcore Nintendo fans would buy out the first batch of consoles they shipped. What they probably didn't expect was that the console would fall so far behind expectations and not even the hardcore fans buying it in droves.

So I think they are going to start to crank up the marketing on the Wii U soon enough and deliver the message of what the console actually is. Plus some games to go with it as well.

A lot of them are still waiting on Pikmin and Metroid. They might not be system sellers per se, but there are some people holding back.

There seems to be a lot of braindead people in Nintendo lately because we get nothing announced early, it seems.

well when you announce early you get versus, the last guardian, agent, etc. But I guess that still gets people to buy it :P. And you don't have to announce it that early.

The Vita has had one Christmas in NA/Europe and two Christmas's in Japan. We've waited.