The way I look at it, there were about 10-15 really good games for the Wii U. I had a lot of fun with it. And you can trade it in for $170 towards a Switch.
I ballpark that I've spent about $800 on my WiiU and 9 physical games + accessories. I logged about 900-1000 hours on it. Less than a dollar per hour of entertainment is a pretty phenomenal deal if you want to look at it in a purely mercenary fashion.
If I sold all my WiiU stuff today, I could probably get back half of that $800. Then that value proposition looks even better.
Video gaming is a relatively cheap hobby, so I don't know if I could ever really feel "burned" by something. The worst that ever happens is that I buy a new game for $50 (through Amazon or some similar discount program), quickly realize it's not for me, and sell it back for $30. So I spent $20 to find out that I didn't like something. Roughly equivalent to bringing a date to a bad movie.







