From an business viewpoint, I think the Wii U was a really bad idea. It's a weak console with a relatively expensive price-tag. That's an awful combination. The advertising vector was a complete bust. Nintendo's first year strategy was as bad as it possibly could have been.
All of that aside, it's a console that will have a parade of first party Nintendo exclusives. If you like that, then you really should like the Wii U.
From a personal viewpoint, that doesn't excite me as much as it does many others. I'm no longer into platformers, which takes a sizable chunk of Nintendo games off the board from the start. I really like games with complex characters and/or interesting storylines, which the Wii U probably won't see a lot of relative to the other consoles. I don't care much about online play, so the Wii U's weakness there, real or imagined, means little to me, though not having an account system baffles the hell out of me. I didn't have a Wii, though I wanted one for the late RPGs it got, so that would be a plus for the Wii U.
Honestly, though, when I line up the games I'm interested in that the Wii U has or will have, it really doesn't total up to much. I kind of want to play Zombi U and W101 but certainly not to the level of buying a console. I kind of wanted Mario Kart but the way people talk, it sounds luck based, which absolutely kills my interest. Didn't like the first Bayonetta and I'm not impressed by Devil's Third in the slightest.
But Zelda. But Metroid.
I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that those two are the primary games that decide our ultimate interest in the Wii U. Skyward Sword was probably the turning point of me not picking up a Wii. This new Zelda, if Nintendo nails it, could be the reason I eventually buy a Wii U.
