I like my Wii U. It's certainly powerful enough to do a visually flawless Mario. But like it or not, more power makes a difference, otherwise we would still be playing our PS2s or whatever older consoles. People get bored without some boosts in innovation or quality to rekindle interest.

One of Wii U's problems is that it's technically just like the 7th gen consoles (and it's online is not even on par). PS3 & 360 are also in major sales decline, even as their game libraries are excellent. The 7th gen market is close to the saturation point.

I don't know but I doubt many people do. It's a damn plastic box, that play videogames. What's to hate?

Now that's your opinion. Other have different opinions. Yours isn't more right than any others. 

Do you think that a man over 15 years should grow up he doesn't drink alcohole, simply because he prefers not to? 

Humph. You stole that one from me. >_<

lets put it this way

for a time it wiped the floor with them both combined and later each on its own

does that sound better to you? either way it's still above them both

Because it's the only way they can "win".

I dont understand.

I think the Wii U is a perfectly good system and is beeing supported by Nintendo. It actually its having some of the best Nintendo games.
I do understand that they messed up with the drought in the first half of the year, but the hate is dumb.

I will most probably get one this year or the next. I just dont know how i will resist X. I love the Xeno series.
I would like for Nintendo to redesign the gamepad to be a big smaller though. Theres alot of plastic in there that they could do away with.

Success brings new fans and positive reactions for the system. But balance must be preserved. Where there is success, haters also spring up to keep the balance. Wii's success brought out many haters because of the above rule.

WiiU does not have the same level of success, so the reaction to it is slowly diminishing. All the previous haters find something else to lay feelings upon, but their number is still great, as the memory of Wii's success is still fresh. That number will get smaller, given time.

The "everyone bought a Wii, played it once, then it gathered dust" is a myth, as evidenced by its continuing software sales over a year after its replacement.

Not entirely a myth. I know quite a few people that fit in the above category. People that had nothing to do with games in the past and had bought the Wii out of trend.

the sales performance isnt in keeping with the 100m install base, though, its barely in keeping with a 10m install base.

eg, with 100m install base just dance 2014 has, as of this week, a 2.6/100 attach rate, compare that to the megaflop known as knack at 9.1/100.