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It's overrated as a feature with regards to sales appeal.

But you won't hear that on gaming boards, because the type of people on gaming boards tend to be by their nature hardcore gamers who get riled up by things like this.

To be honest I think I've spent maybe 20 minutes playing Wii games on my Wii U in almost three years. I'd rather Nintendo had used a completely new and more modern architecture than being shoe horned into the Wii U design, largely because of backwards compatibility that didn't help them at all in the marketplace anyway.