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From a sales and marketing perspective, obviously very bad 1st two years.

From a hardware perspective it's very nice but has some flaws. The Gamepad is a little too big and bulky. This system itself should be at least 2X as powerful. It's great for low power consumption though. It can literally save you $50-$100 a year in power and another $50 in free online.

In the online/OS/features side I'm somewhat satisfied but somewhat pleased. The online and eshop is good, but the virtual console is weak. The whole thing isn't innovative, either. It's merely satisfactory. I.E., how about some HD remakes of old titles or a new entry in a classic 8-bit franchise. Something fun. The boot screen should have lots of theme options and customization and there are no trophies, which is weak.

1st party software is very good. SM3DW was outstanding and so is MarioKart8. Loved WWHD. B2 looks excellent. Xenoblade X looks ridiculously good and a classic JRPG. Zelda looks amazing. Some variety is missing: on Wii at this stage we already had Zelda, Paper Mario and Metroid. There also has been nothing really innovative like Wii Sports was.

3rd party support was great through the first 2 years and that's awesome. But now it's dead and that's a major blow to the system.

All in all, some excellent games to play but the system is too weak and has too little 3rd party support. I'm also disappointing by the marketing simply because I'm tired of explaining to people what it is and it would be nice if more people had one so I could play some multiplayer with friends. Some more innovation and variety in software would be really nice. System is excellent for net surfing, Netflix and Youtube.