For people who didn't know of Nintendo's new console or pay much attention to gaming, they would simply think it's a tablet commercial. Of those who payed attention to it, they would notice some kind of Wii relationship, but that's about it.

They should have stick with something similar to the "Wii would like to play" commercials. Have the Wii on the table and replaced it with the WiiU and ask, "Would U like to play?"

Wasn't so bad, I thought the console had potential at the time.

PS won the commercial wars with nostalgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39pK2MV_sfs .  Sound clips from so many games we've played, and that PS Logo Boing sound that sent shivers down the spine .

That ad really wasn't that bad, but there was a huge problem with it. Nintendo spent their entire E3 2012 & 13 marketing how the U was a core console for core gamers, and then ads like this come and show off nothing but casual games and gimmicks. I got an idea. How about instead of showing me the gamepad being using as a karaoke teleprompter while people pretend they can sing, you actually demonstrate how the gamepad can be used as a big game changer in games that actually matter... Like I don't know... AC, Batman, Darksiders, or even CoD? Ads like this show the U's biggest problem. It completely lacks identity. Nothing about it screams, hey go get rid of your old console and buy this! Come on Nintendo. What are you doing?

Dat awful music makes me go insane. Thank God for the glorious mute button!

Never seen that add before... it was a little tablet centric..

The biggest thing for me in the whole Nintendo wii-u launch, was that at no time did I feel like they were launching a new console, it felt like the gamepad was an add-on... it really didn't make much sense. It never felt very clear and this is from someone who knew what the wii-u was. Some of their PR was really poor, when they launch the next console they need to just keep it simple like Sony did, here is our new console, here it was it can do..done.

First time I saw it and now I know why people thought or still think that Wii U is only a tablet you can buy for your Wii or simply let it if you are happy with the Wii without tablet.

Just terrible. Annoying editing, annoying music, what game(S) were they even playing? some retro hd mario? Ughh... The primary color strobe lights of eyeball rape became annoying after just 2 seconds. The tablet and karaoke was complete nonsense..........clunky ass tablet with some girls trying to dance with it in one hand and mic in the other shaking their hips like that could possibly be sexy? What game is that karaoke game anyways? The tablet looks about 10x as nerdy now as a trapper keeper with a touchscreen too. I can't believe Nintendo has come to this point. I hope it doesn't outsell the Dreamcast because that to me, proves that people have no common sense whatsoever when it comes to GAMES at least. I'm really not trying to bash it, it is what it is...horrible in many regards. How do I say it nicely? It's so bad, and such a let down for a next gen console.

Moderated,

-Mr Khan

Instead of that music they could've just explained what the Wii U was, but okay..

The ad isn't really bad, althout those countless cubicles are somewhat disturbing, but the music is awful, and two of the gameplay modes it showed actually repelled me:
1) the fast-paced stylus action, a game played that way would actually just stress me more or less like trying to catch flies with a couple of chopsticks;
2) the part where the kid threw some kind of projectiles at targets by quickly sliding his finger on the screen, it screamed auto-aim, and I don't like it, I want a device that lets me aim easily by fitting nicely to that task, not a device that sucks so much at aiming that it has to do it for me, also because in some tactical situations, AI controlled teammates usually aim at the closest attackers, so it's a good thing for the human player being able to aim at the farthest ones, or more in general at targets that any kind of auto-aim, either of the player or of AI NPCs, wouldn't target. I remember that I had to use this tactics to beat some hard missions in Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, with auto-aim it wouldn't have been possible, and even the certainty of striking the targets wouldn't have saved me if I let too many foes get closer and attack altogether.

No idea how it is over the big pond, but I've been watching a kids channel one day and there were multiple WiiU ads running during every break, so there is probably a huge difference between the channels.