Has the Wii U become more of a Collector item than a system that people buy to play regularly?

[justiceiro]

I think i get what spurgeon is trying to say, and some quotes on this threads seems to confirm what i am thinking:
"Wii u has the first party exclusives, for everything else, there's Steam."

"i bought the WII U because it was on sale where i get 2 games with it and also because i wona gift voucher that pays for the whole machine :D."

Don't get me wrong, its your money and you do whatever you want with it. But the thing is that people onw the console, but are not willing to use it the most possible, do you get it?

I know this guy in another forum, mostly a sony fanboy, but has money to expend. So i made one thread about wiiu there, and then he came, and criticized the low sales, lack of power, weak online , more mario, etc. He downplayed the console from start to the end. In less than 2 weeks, he bougth one(!). He grabed a deal that included the NSMBU bundle and DKC:TF. Then he proceed to talk about his purchase, now criticsing, the range of the game pad, the matte color, the battery and the weigth. He also didn't liked DKC: TF, but enjoyed the NSMBU, and insisted that he didn't get the concept of the gamepad, one thing that he claimed psvita did better with ps4.

He don't like jrpgs much, so i tried to convince him to grab game like deus ex and zombiu. He was like nah, alreadly have a lot of zoombie games in my psn backlog and alreadly have my deus ex copy there too. When MK8 arrived, he didn't was really into it, because most stores overpriced it(anothe commom complain of him, that nintendo games are more expensive and does not have something like PS+).Mostly, one thing got clear for me, he didn't got the console because he tough it could have some potential, but because was the only way to play the highily praised nintendo games.

So, yeah, it seems most of the time people are buying wiiu just to play that one-2 games, but that's about it. Its feels like, when it come to ps4, people look at it and say: "wow, will buy this console, and play all my favorite franchises, wacth all my movies, make most of my purchases there". When it comes to wiiu, they are like:"Blargh, really? No other way to play those games? Well, guess, i will pick one cheap just to play that game and thats about it. If something grab my attetion later, i will pick it too". People want to do everything with theirs ps4/ X1. Wacth movies, series, play indies games, play multiplat releases, make the most of it. People are chasing games to play on theirs consoles. But it seems that wiiu owners want to play the bare minimum, to buy the bare minimum, to find any way to play the games in others plattaforms than on wiiu.

Who to blame? Difficult to say, on one side we have owner that never expected wiiu to have something to add in the average multiplattaform release, in the other we have a console that recievied a lot of gimped ports, lacking online modes and dlcs(we can blame nitnendo and publishers on this). We have to remenber too that retaliers put out litlle space for wiiu, and theirs games, so a lot of them are hard to find, so the average consumer end up giving up on buying B-games. The interface of the eshop don't help either. Add to that a system that was really slow at launch, and has not the most popular features that a lot of gamer are used too, like achiviements, party chat, account system(c'mom, we all know that account rigth now has no use if they are tied with the console).

So yeah, wiiu is between a rock and a hard place.