Yes this, i bought mine at launch also and love the console :)

Just because someone loves Nintendo and their games doesn't mean they're satisfied with the current line-up enough to justify getting their current console.

Gaming is an expensive hobby and not everyone can satisfy their immediate desires all the time.

How do you know this??

Gamecube sold 21m (a portion of those not Nintendo faithfuls) so for all we know the Nintendo home console fanbase was around 15m going into the Wii era, which may or may not have added any to that.

Perhaps 10m~ is that the Nintendo home console fanbase make up now.

And you can't expect them to all jump on board in the first 12 months! WiiU should be at 10m early 2015 that gives them 2 years for software to come along that appeals to them.

I support a console that has nice games that appeal to my personal tastes.

Nintendo is the company that makes the games that I enjoy the most, but if their new console is still to have many of those games I enjoy, it is not my fault.

In fact, none of this 3 new gen consoles have nothing that gets me trully pumped.

I determine much of a console purchase based on previous experience. I loved NES, so I got a SNES, loved it so got a N64, did not care for it so waited a bit on the GC, loved it so I bought a Wii which I found to be easily Nintendo's worst system for my tastes. So the Wii U suffered because if it was another Wii it would have been first Nintendo system I passed on. Fortunately the line up is coming together and next year looks solid.

Don't worry, I will get one, likely in 2014 along with Mario, Sonic, Pikmin, FIre Emblem and Zelda.

Im a huge Nintendo fan but I have yet to buy a Wii U. In the first 9 months the only major Nintendo franchise to appear on Wii U was 2D Mario which is a great series but its not enough for me to spend $300+ for a new console. I dont give a shit about Nintendo Land or Game & Wario. ZombiU and Lego City look pretty decent but thats still not enough and every other game I could play on my PS3 or 3DS.

My plan was to get one this holiday now that Pikmin, Wonderful 101, Wind Waker and 3D Mario have made the library more appealing to me but a few months back work got really slow and they started laying people off and cut my hours back by a good margin so money has been pretty tight lately. Work is starting to pick back up and at the start of the year ill be back to my regular schedule plus ill be getting a pretty big tax return so ill probably buy a Wii U around that time. Also Donkey Kong and Mario Kart will be released around that time so that increases the value of Wii U by alot as well.

I know alot of hardcore gamers expect people to just blindly buy there console of choice at launch but im not one of them. I wait until there is a nice collection of games I really want and cant play on my current consoles, for the majority of this year Wii U did not fit that criteria.

I believe you answered your own/OP's question, WiiU doesn't have a big library of games that appeals to people yet, Mario and Pikmin and others are a start, but that's enough for only a certain amount of people. Have you noticed all the posts of people saying that they'll buy a WiiU when MK8/Smash Bros/X/Zelda/etc comes out? If those fail to push systems then that's how you know the WiiU is truly set to have mediocre sales.

The fact is Nintendo's consoles have been declining for several generations now. From NES to SNES to N64 to GCN.

The Wii just bucked the trend with the novelty of motion gaming for a few years.

Wii U could simply just be Nintendo returning to the mean of what they were before.

Fact is, the majority of console buyers don't want a console of just Mario/Zelda/Mario Kart/Smash and some supplementary titles here and there. 

They want all the major third party games, the above formula simply doesn't work unless it's tied to a miracle gimmick to sell the console.

oh aome on! you think WIiU is going to sell only 5m next year?

with MK8 and Smash and the rest?

It's doing 3m this year, why is next year going to see such a huge bump? We've yet to see if those franchise are effective. I just can't see them turning around anything.