Soundwave on 15 October 2012
The success of Netflix on Wii, which is what a lot of people used their Wii for primarily in the later years of the console life, opened Nintendo's eyes.
The "game-only" console is dead. Nintendo TVii, Miiverse, video calling, Youtube, Netflix, web-browsing, etc. are standard on Wii U, in fact looks like half of the system's memory is dedicated to these types of features.
Reggie himself said it, they look at Nintendo TVii and Miiverse as the killer apps for the system.
