Do you have/want a Wii U, but never owned a Wii?

[joesampson]

I never had a Wii and don't really want a Wii U, however I do want some sort of a Nintendo box. A few years ago when Nintendo announced a Wii mini I thought it would be a digital only box that would allow you to buy new and old school games from the eShop but it turns out it was a disc only console. What I really want is a cheap, digital console, that plays NES, SNES, and N64 games. I've considered buying a Wii U just to do that and additionally play maybe Mario Kart 8, Mario Maker, and NSMB2 but the Wii U is too expensive for that.

Having said that, I'm building a custom Nintendo/Sega Raspberry Pi emulator to do just that, It's too bad Nintendo never did something like this themselves.

Here is where I got started building the RaspPi emulator console, http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192.