As a WiiU owner, I can say that I have no more respect for it now than I did 2 months ago when I didn't have one. If anything, maybe less. This console should have come out 3 years ago ad it would have been accepted and sold well. It would have even had 3rd party support. Now, it's too little too late.

Possibly the best answer on this thread.

Wii U gaining respect?

Let's see:

Wii selled more than its competitors

Gave 10 bi of profit alone.

Recieved the most selled game of all time(wii sports) and one of the most acclaimed game of all time(SMG/SMG2).

Recivied the majoroty of the jokes from the announcment to the end of the production(remenber that mass effect comic?). Till today everyone call it "luck".

So, even if the wiiu start to sell better and outsell all the competitors, and get the best games, no, will not have the respect of the majority. In fact, as the generation seems to go on, i believe that will only be forgotten more and more.

There is actually only one way that i see that the jokes stoping: the closure of the playstation and xbox division while nintendo mantains wiiu production. If nintendo remains the only plattaform where people can play in a console, it will gain a ton of people interested in playing games on TVs, and thats a lot. Of course, the chance of this happen is very low.

inb4 "ha, kepping dreaming""nintendo will go down 2 times before this hapopen, fanboy".

No.

problem with the Xb1 is its competation is the ps4, it's designed better, more powerful  and 100$ cheaper, why would gamers that know this choose the Xb1, that's why the xb1 is selling  at wiiu levels.

Yes, when MK8, Smash, X and Bayonetta 2 come out. As of right now most people still don't give a shit.

The days when that one great game could sell millions of consoles are over. Marketing is everything. Think about it this way. Why are people buying the PS4? There aren't that many standout exclusives. A lot of people seem to be complaining about PS4 games as oppose to praising them. Both Wii U and Xbox One actually had a better lineup of games this past holiday. Logically, the PS4 shouldn't be selling that well at all. It's selling because Sony made everybody want one. They marketed the PS4 successfully, something Nintendo failed to do with Wii U. 

It's also ironic that I mentioned Okami since Super Mario 3D World was one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2013 but it couldn't sell too many Wii U's.

There is no way to go but up.

Just wait until Mario Kart 8 comes out... It will put an end to Sony's dominance... If the PS4 gets ditched of course!