Well now that Nintendo have joined the 21st Century and have adopted an account system it isn't going to be anywhere near as bad as the situation with the Wii last gen as long as Nintendo find some way of detecting the USB dongle/chip. They can just disable the account or ban the MAC address, effectively killing the console for any online interaction, including Miiverse, Netflix, the browser etc.
Or, even better, disabling the link between the GamePad and the console lol. That would be quite amusing!
The only reason I can see to mod your console would be for brick protection, it's unforgivable that Nintendo didn't implement this for the Wii U straight out of the box. Every time I update any of my consoles apart from my Wii I'm always stressed about a power cut bricking the things!!!







