Ofc the Wii u is now appealing but they should advertise it more in my opinion, especially because of the holidays.
Anyway u mentioned the innovation of the snes joypad, its actually magical how all Nintendo joypads worked great. If u look at all the failures, look at Jaguar, or amiga cd. U actually see how much thought nintendo put in them.
Nes joypads still work great, while i had many broken sega master system pads