I think the tablet controller is fantastic and I can see alot of potential there. It can be used as a regular controller at the least but the touch screen also adds a great deal of potential for gaming, which I hope is, unlike the Wii-mote, fully realised.
It is also excellent for the non-gaming functions and is very comfortable.
What Nintendo has though is something of an image/marketing problem at the moment. There is not enough awareness of the system with the general public, the commercials are simply not any good, and like the 3DS they haven't really allowed people to see what makes the system unique.
A solid line-up for the rest of the year, some genuine AAA first party goodness and change of tac with advertising and I think the system will do just fine.
Degree of difference in hardware with Orbis/Durango might take longer to establish and determine how third parties support the system. I'm not yet sure that Wii U not getting PS3/360 multi-plats will carry over to the next generation or whether it's a simple cost/benefit decision at this particular point in the generation (i.e. 150 million systems versus 3 million).
In the end the system will sell respectably (at least SNES numbers), whether it will do very well is yet to be determined. Doom and gloom talk is still way, way premature considering it takes most new systems some time to make an impact and start outselling the existing, established formats.
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