The online system is certainly better than anything Nintendo's ever had before, but it's never been their big focus and it never will be. It exists, I've used it, it's perfectly fine, but you've likely got your PS3 and/or 360 if you really need to immerse yourself in that. What you should get Wii U for is the games. It took a while, but there's some great ones now. I think if you're just getting one now and have played nothing, there's enough here to satisfy you until well in 2014 when it seems like the game releases will start ramping up. The exclusives are pretty strong, and while there's certainly holes in its third party software - ultimately it's got a lot, a lot of the big third-party offerings of the season (AC4, Arkham Origins, CoD) are here, albeit in not as online friendly forms. And ultimately - it's 299. That's not much. And you'll have it and you'll have it forever and there will be things to play. And I mean... in the scheme of things you HAVE to get it if you're a gamer... what are you going to do - not get Smash Brothers? Might as well do it now when they're going deal crazy.
Ultimately, if you like Nintendo, get this. It won't perfectly replicate the Sony/Microsoft experience if that's your bag, but Nintendo is taking steps in the right direction - offering something closer to that while still offering their inherent unique Nintendoness that Sony and MIcrosoft will never have. It's been true in the past, it's true now, and it'll be true in the future - Microsoft/Sony make better consoles. Nintendo makes better games. And ultimately consoles are just tools for playing games.
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