I bought mine for its potential. Potential it is still yet to realise and I don't think it will. Instead I'm just getting a bunch of great exclusive games, which is fine. But I'll never buy a console for its potential again. Only once I know it does what I want it to do and the manufacturer delivers on all their promises.

winner of the Directly to comment without fully understanding even the thread title. LOL Forget reading the OP.

He got to War, immediately stopped reading and cashed in.

Prussiagc answered to the very misleading thread title before it was changed. Why are you attacking him for that, when the first thread title was pure flame bait?

And even the article itself isn't that innocent as some of you are suggesting... Why was there a CONSOLE WAR in the house of the writer in the first place? Why can't he write "What made my decision for a Wii U" or something like that instead of "console war"... Oh yeah, much less clicks and less hate between the fans of the different consoles.

Read OP before commenting, maybe?

the Wii U hasnt won my heart yet

5- I dont own a wii and never plan to because of the motion controls. Its just too much of a hazzle tracking down every game if it is supporting normal controls or not. so i rather just ignore the wii forever.

4- I never was a fan of nintendo games in the past, from all of the nintendo games on wiiu only hyurial warriors is interesting to me. Maybe if this xenoblade chronicles comes out i will get more interested in this system but then again its not a game by nintendo.

2 - i am not married

1 - The value is completely overpriced, the wiiu should be priced like the ps3, if they would drop the gamepad they could.

Wow, it's always amusing to read comments left by people who can't even be bothered to properly read the title of the article. "5 reasons the Wii U won the console war IN OUR HOUSE" <- In THEIR house. Not in the marketplace, not in the current gen, but in the house of the person who wrote the article. That means you stopped reading the title after 9 words when there were only 3 more words to go. Kudos to your epic display of attention deficit disorder.
On topic, all of the points raised are good points. And despite how many people claim there is little justification for the Gamepad itself, I find that it clearly differentiates itself from the gaming experience of other consoles. Having played Wii U almost exclusively (rarely going back to my 360 from time to time) over the past 2 years, I cannot imagine going back to the chore of navigating menus, typing messages, and using the internet with an analog/d-pad controller. And those are just the out of game advantages. Having in-game characters communicate to you through the gamepad like a video phone is extremely immersive. And even though EA only deemed the console worthy of one Madden game, the ability to draw hot routes for your wide receivers on the Gamepad while at the line of scrimmage gave a level of control as the QB far superior than inputting from a list of pre-programmed routes.
Having said that, the lack of 3rd party support becomes hard to ignore after a while. My breaking point happened to be Shadow of Mordor. I think my wife is getting that for me and an Xbox One for Christmas.

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- Shinobi-san

Well you can't blame them. The OP left out the in our house part out of the title at first 

That's why Nintendo is always my favorite.

Are we really gonna act as if the article's title is not clickbait? What kind of console war was going on in the author's house exactly?

@bolded Very harsh thing to say. Stealth edit or not, it's not a very nice thing to attack others, eh?

It's always amusing when people take judgement which didn't follow the thread and obviously don't know that the thread title has been changed.