I (being a loyal Nintendo fan), am not at all offended by the joke itself. What I am bothered though is the way they executed it. We all know the Wii U is unable to run the engine (we get that already, so stop beating around the bush).
But to rub it all over our faces is (like Aielyn said) very disrespectful. The joke essentially was a dick move (somewhat). Of course the Wii U can't run it, but at the same time don't dangle it (the possibility that it might) right in front of us like a rabbit with a carrot.
It's like as if a bunch of 16-17 year olds were playing basket ball and they see a 7-8 year old across the court alone. Knowing that hes is too small to play with the big kids they still offer him to play only to to reveal that they were only joking and they leave him in the dust.
Again the I'm not saying the joke offended me personally, but it was disrespectful and quite honestly a very lame joke all together. The equivalent would be is if Nintendo came up and said that they patched things up with EA and announced that they were bringing Origin to the Wii U. Only to say later that it was all a joke.
