I was taken in at the beginning, I'd seen the E3 demos and believed it may have a high power cpu and decent graphics. I expected it to do well. Then the info started leaking about weak spec and the hardware being no where close to performing like those E3 demos. Then came the info about the gpu being 352 gflops when there were rumours before that it was 600 gflops or more. Anyway expectations just went lower and lower and I realised we were back in a wii situation of a console approximately a generation behind in performance. Then saw the games which were frankly weaker than 360 and PS3 and I wondered if there was a market for it when it couldn't compete with regards multiformat games etc and much of the casual game market was now phones and tablets.
So yes I expected success when I thought it was a reasonable spec console but then turned to expecting failure when I realised it was another scam attempt by Nintendo to sell ridiculously underpowered hardware at high prices though. I still bought one and didn't regret it because I love Nintendo games but I also felt like Nintendo see their customers as something to exploit and rip off.
So peversely I'm glad Nintendo got a good kicking with the wii u. Frankly its not a good console and was never, ever worth the launch price.
Since that time more information has been revealed about the very low performance memory in wii u and the gpu only being 176gflops at 550mhz and the cpu at 1.25ghz.
I just hope Nintendo have learned their lesson and their next generation console will be a fair spec at a fair price with dare I say it third party support. Back to the days of Snes, N64 and Gamecube when NIntendo hardware was competitive and had some important hardware advantages.
Moderated,
-Mr Khan
