To be honest I'm not sad at all that the Wii brand in general will be buried sooner than later.

Any Nintendo fan have Wii Sports or Wii Fit or Nintendo Land in their top 10 favorite Nintendo games? *deafening silence*

Any other Nintendo fan love that E3 where they focused on Wii Music? *crickets*

Even for all the market success of the Wii, all we really got out of it in the end was a metric ass-ton of crappy mini-game/shovelware type garbage like Carnival Games and EA Active.

And we were paying more for basically outdated hardware, you could buy a GameCube for $99 in 2005/06 .... or Nintendo could sell you a modestly updated GameCube with a different controller and a whopping 512MB of memory for 2.5x that price. It was a rip off honestly.

Wii U? Another outdated, overpriced piece of hardware. Sony/MS fans meanwhile have been getting full generational leaps in hardware for generally not too much more.

I'm looking forward to Nintendo ditching this era entirely and relying less on gimmicks or at the very least having reasonably powered hardware. I'm glad the Wii U failed, Nintendo fans were getting screwed over by being asked to play on hardware a full generation behind everyone else. If Wii U was successful it would've been bad for Nintendo fans. 

Although i love Nintendo for the great games, a world were Wii U was on top and PS4 & Xbox One were copying with there own crappy tablets and underpowered console's is horrible. The PS4 has saved this generation and made futre generations possible, and made Microsoft see the error of there ways.

If the Wii U was more successful, we'd have even more plastic peripherals lying around by now...

The Wii U would get a few multiplatform titles, much like the Wii in the beginning and how they treat the PS3 and Xbox 360 at the beginning of this generation (and how most Japanese developers still treat the PS3 and Vita) in have lower quality ports as the base before eventually focusing on the stronger hardware.