''You've obviously never own a Nintendo console to be making such a comment.''

I have, I bought a Wii, had it for a for a few years and sold it, it took a lot of dust all those years, I thought they were gonna get some new franchises and third party support, but I shouldn't have bought it in the first place, because there wasn't really anything to play, so I sold it and kept playing on the 360. I know a lot of people who sold their Wii.

''Games like Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros, Legend of Zelda and Mario are the reason to own a WiiU''

Or they are a reason to buy a preowned Gamecube or install an emulator. I've never played all those games and all their sequels, so I see no reason.unless I'm a diehard fan. Three consoles running 80% of the same games not being good for anyone as a consumer has no bearing at all on the companies business-wise. The simple fact of the matter is that if you’re faced with companies like Sony and Microsoft having 15 blockbusters every year that people really want to play, next to Nintendo having 5 console-exclusive games people want to play, people are going to get one of the two systems that have more of the games they want to play.

Their competition are always ready to throw dollars around to get the software people want and in Microsoft's case spend millions of dollars to get the software people want, are Nintendo willing to do that? Are they just gonna say ''we have money in the bank''? Because quite frankly nobody gives a shit how much money they have, their competitors are giant worldwide multi billion dollar coporations, they have money too and are gonna do what it takes to stay ahead of the game, leaving NIntendo behind. People aren’t going to buy a system that has less of what they want unless they’re diehard fans of those specific games, and in many cases they’d have to be such huge fans that the idea of paying $300 just to play that one game with a big maybe for anything else they’d want to play in the future would be acceptable to them. Nintendo is on the path to irrelevance as a console maker. Unless they stop pretending that gimmicks and a low price will make up for not having the games people want to play, they’re going to become Sega. I am entirely serious when I say that I can see them reduced to a third party video game and peripheral maker for Sony, Microsoft and whoever replaces Nintendo by the next generation if Nintendo doesn’t get their act together. They’d still be in the handheld market, I'd guess, but not consoles.

Your forgot to put third party games, X, Bayonetta 2, Yarn Yoshi, SMT x Fire Emblem, The Wonderful 101, Game and Wario, Nintendo Land, New Super Mario Bros. U, Zombi U, Sonic Lost World, Wii Party U, Wii Fit U, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. New Super Luigi U, Lego City Undercover, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Indie games, and Miyamoto's new IP on the Wii U list.

ps4 pros
will have the superior multiplats you know like 90% of the games you'll be playing
will be cheaper to buy HW, upgrade HDD, accessories, subs
usually has the most diverse and amount of exclusives

XB1 cons
more expensive everything
multiplats will be inferior to PS4 more so than last gen ps360
titanfall is a multiplayer only game

Made my decision months ago.
I'm getting a PS4 and X1, some really nice looking games on both. The Wii U is the only one that doesn't interest me tbh.

Are we sure Rustynail is not an alt?

It's fun to point out EA when people talk about Wii U 3rd party support because clearly a console lives and dies with EA support. Remember when EA proudly and exsessively supported the 3DO? That worked out well. Porting games from PS4/X1 will not be as hard as it has been in other generations. There have been generations where some consoles exclusively use triangle polygons and some exclusively use quadrangles. The ports were still made. The fact is most other major 3rd parties are making their multi-platform games for Wii U and will continue to.

Mario is not the only reason to buy a Wii U. There are dozens of other games and features that make the Wii U attractive to customers. Just as many reasons as the other two. It's pretty clear that you've never given Nintendo a chance. Maybe it's because you're too young to remember when they dominated the market. Who knows. I don't know you. But buying a Wii with a couple casual games and never playing it does not justify your crazy hatered for Nintendo.

Explain? Not to be smarmy about it, I'm honestly curious.

I wonder why Nintendo games are consistently at the top of the sales charts if no one wants to play them?  I wonder who in the world is buying all of those games... Maybe people aren't buying them because they want to play them, maybe they are just buying them because it's their hobby to collect games that no one wants to play. 

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Perhaps Nintendo is buying their own games to make it look like people actually want them!  That has to be it!  I mean, it is the only scenerio that supports your absurd dogma. 

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Perhaps you think everyone in the world shares your opinion, even though they clearly don't.

*And, since it didn't seem to sink in the first time: PS4 is a kid's toy.  Xbox1 is a kid's toy.  WiiU is a kid's toy.  If you need to pretend they're something else, simply so that you don't feel childish, well that's on you. 

Maybe im a kid at my heart (even im 26). I have soo much more fun with nintendo games than the games in my PS3. And nintendo style touched my heart, and still touching with wii U games. why have only GC games if i can also have wii U games also? 

I know it will sell very poorly, i expect no more than GC. But i dont care if other people dont play what im playing. 

And, seriously, you only can have this ideia from wii U if you had played all games for it.And Im not trying to convince you to buy a Wii U(althoug you are convincing me not to buy...), im just answering the topic question.

I know that i will be much more happy with a Wii U and a Xbox One than only with a Xbox One and a GC emulator. If thats not your case, you dont need to quote me, and convince me not to buy a wii U. 

During the ps2 and ps1 era I don't feel that sony's first party games were as plentiful or as well reviewed as they were during the ps3's run. I feel like the fact that publishers made alot of games multiplatform forced sony to take more risks with ips this gen.  The ps1 and ps2 got so much more third party support in comparison to Nintendo and xbox during those times that Sony didnt need to take as many risks.  This new gen Sony will probably keep it going the way they have with the ps3, but i wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft brought the same level of risk considering they bought some new studios.