Mistake. Sure there is a real lack of games at the mo but they will come. How will you feel when 3d Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart, Metroid etc come out? You are destined to re buy a wii u.

Dude, it's time to change that avatar of yours.

Did you guys read the OP, he says he doesn't wanna be stuck with anothere dreamcast, he pretty much sold it for the lack of third party support and the way the wiiu is selling, and you can't blame him, things have changed the 7th gen, so much quality third party games, way more then any othere gen, he also i didn'ty say what games he would miss playing, for me personally, it would be zelda and 3d mario, those are the only games that i would really miss playing so far.

Okay, I had a friend who bought a 360, traded it in for a wii and traded rthat in for a ps3 and traded that in for a 360... I thought he was incredibly stupid each time because you never get close to what you paid for back. I would just keep the system and buy the other as well... if you really wanted to get rid of it I would have craigslisted it for the same price gamestop sells them at used.

Unless you purchased the Wii u intially because your a trend follower and thought the wii u would be a hit like wii was and only now realize that not every soccer mom wants one I cannot see any logic in your decision.

You knew what games were coming before launch. Are the low sales effecting your enjoyment of any of those games? if the system has no games you enjoy than obviously you just should never have gotten one in the first place.

You can always get a Wii U next year, when it'll have some worthy games and a $50 price-cut.

Don't see how it is bad decision, with sony getting amazing exclusives all year long...

Seriously.

There are a lot of great games for PS3 and if he never had one then there no need for a PS4 just yet.

Yes and that’s the point. Sony already stated that they intend to support the system up until at least 2015, so that’s quite some time before he’ll need to upgrade.

Apart from those games the VP mentioned there are a plethora of other PS3 titles on the horizon, including Gran Turismo 6. The PS3 has so many new titles right now that it is hard to keep up as a result, so a backlog is inevitable. I already have enough games to last me way beyond 2015. And besides, I think most gamers buy a console for what it can offer in the near to medium term as opposed to its long term potential. I'm not saying people don't buy a system early for what it can offer later, but usually those people have a current gen system to keep them occupied. No doubt the Wii U has long term potential, but why keep it now when there’s NOTHING worth playing on it at the moment, especially when he can enjoy the PS3 to the fullest and upgrade later? Nintendo doesn’t even have firm dates for its games on the system, and the majority of the better titles will likely come out next year. By the time the real heavy hitters on Wii U land the system will probably be cheaper and so will the one or two decent games that will come out later this year. That’s the better move in my opinion and I’m encouraging him to do that. So that answers the ‘then what?’ in your post (after the PS3 has run its course).

I wouldn’t compare the 360 to the PS3 in those terms. For one Sony is not like Microsoft with respect to supporting older systems. This year alone he’ll have access to plenty exclusive PS3 games and multiplatform games that are not available on the Wii U. For exclusives he has Ni No Kuni, Sly 4, GOW:A, The Last of Us, Beyond: 2 Souls, Puppeteer, Rain etc and multiplat games include Metal Gear Rising, DmC, Bioshock Infinite. Crysis 3, Tomb Raider, Fuse, GTA V, Rayman (the former Wii U exclusive), Remember Me, etc etc etc. I see little reason to have a Wii U now when you have these games to play, and let’s not forgot developers at DICE were discussing what games they were cancelling on Wii U as opposed to projects they were working on, so all the more reason to give the Wii U more time.

I’m not saying it’s not okay to get a Wii U, but I am saying given what is available on the system the opportunity cost of keeping it would be way too high when you consider the PS3 as an option.