I've had my Wii U since launch. I actually had a kind of "friend drive" to help me buy it, meaning a bunch of friends let me have old games they didn't want anymore to trade in to help pay down the pre-order. Wound up surprisingly paying around half the cost of the deluxe model.
I have been very happy with the console thus far, with two exceptions:
1. I wasn't into Nintendo Land. I've heard some people love it. I did not. I was very disappointed. It simply doesn't, to me, have that same "pick up and play" feel that Wii Sports did and still does. Which is too bad, because the IDEA of a bunch of games based on Nintendo franchises, on paper, seemed awesome.
2. Obviously, the drought of game releases. On the one hand, it hasn't been THAT huge a deal to me, because I haven't exactly had the money to get a lot of games anyway. But on the other hand, I've also had to wait many extra months to finally play Pikmin 3, which at the moment is, and has been, my most anticipated game.
Outside of those two though, I'm very happy with my purchase. With the updates improving the OS experience, which every modern console goes through, and with Pikmin and as for-sure purchases, and Wonderful 101, DKC, and Sonic as solid "Maybes", as well as many eShop titles I'm really looking forward to such as Two Brothers, Shovel Knight, Another Castle, and AVGN Adventures, along with many games slated for next year like Yarn Yoshi, Smash Bros., Mario Kart and Zelda. The prospect of GBA and GC games being on VC is great, and of course the potential for new Star Fox, Wave Race, etc. etc. etc. in the future. Yeah, I'm very happy with the system. The GamePad rocks as a controller, to me, Miiverse is a really nice touch, the all the indie games lining up for eShop makes me really happy. In general, I don't feel like I'll be missing TOO much if Wii U winds up being my only next gen console.
