So Are You Convinced On WiiU? **UPDATED with launch window games list**

[Mummelmann]

I'm not. The tablet controller just seems like a bad idea, all it appears to do is add more fuzz and clunk to regular actions in games and I can see it getting really tiresome after a while, not to mention how unwieldy it seems at times.
Then there's online, Nintendo are starting to look a bit silly here, the Wii had almost no online implementation at all and their heads stated that it "wasn't important". Well it is and they realize that now.
Problem is, they're late to the party so all their "amazing" features likely exist in better form already and their whole approach kind of seems like an elderly person trying a smartphone for the first time.
There's also the fact that Nintendo have very few allies in the online gaming and functionality realm so they won't be able to provide anything that the PS4 and Nextbox won't do better

They are also touting HD as a selling point now, trying to make us excited that they release a console that can play HD content roughly six years too late. Their attempt to appeal to more "mature" audiences and developers could also fall flat since they appear to have set themselves up for the same troubles as the 7th generation; the competing consoles have a lot more horsepower (the gap won't be as vast as the Wii and PS360 though) and the WiiU could end up as an obscure and distant choice for multiplats and other 3rd party efforts, especially given their strained relations with developers from way back. Seems kinda like they're trying to be a lot like the competition in many ways.

Bottom line; they're biting off way too much to chew, they're trying to lure in casual tablet and phone "gamers" with their tablet ruse, they want to keep their motion control fans by keeping Wii-mote support and publishing very few titles that actually fully utilize the capability of this rather underappreciated controller and they want the "hardcore" to revel in late ports of games such as Mass Effect III.
They're trying to appease everyone but that won't work, Sony's Move and MS' Kinect should be proof enough of that, as should the Wii's serial flopping "hardcore" 3rd party titles.

And how much will this thing cost anyway? How much will peripherals and games cost? Everyone always thinks; "oh, well, they're Nintendo, they know what they're doing." You know what? I'm kind of getting the impression that they don't sometimes and the WiiU seems like irrefutable proof of it to me.
No, I am not convinced on the WiiU and my belief that it will lag far behind the Wii in lifetime sales stands firm.
They're trying to make the WiiU some kind of Jack of All Trades but might very well end up making it a Jackass instead.