I think no one is that stupid.

I have a wii u and I'm a Nintendo fanboy, but I have other guide:

1.don't buy a wii u right now if you're not sure

2. wait until November 2015 and buy a wii u with zelda u and the other 10+ exclusives

3. New console with an instant catalogue of classics

4. entertainment profit.

Yeah, you're probably right. Just to make sure though, I mean, this is the internet after all.

One can always buy refurbished. They have refurbished Wii U's for between $200-230. And you get a year warranty.

Exactly! That makes it even easier than it already was before!

Wow, there are a LOT of these today!

I know right!

Here's how I did it:

The Get-Someone-Else-To-Buy-It Mission:

1. Go on a wierd trip to Westfield with my Mother and her new Boyfriend I saw twice before that.

2. Tell my mom my plan.

3. Go into a game store.

4. Pretend to beg mom for Bayonetta 2 but I need Wii U first...

5. Walk out of shopping centre and look sad while they smoke.

6. He buys me a Wii U!

#VICTORY!!!!

If you come to think of it, the games you mentioned cost around $100 each. $60 for the game, and then $30 for the Season Pass, and maybe add $10 for extra content.

By simply avoiding 3, 4, maybe 5 games taht end up like Watch Dogs or AC:U you can finally purchase a Wii U.

Now, seriously, everyone talks about $300 as if it were a fortune.Underpowered or not the console is overall good, the online is free (and most of the time decent) and it has some great quality games. Not suitable for primary console but it's absolutely perfect as a secondary console. Sure, you can't just pull out $300 at any moment, but if you can't spare $300 in the long term (one, two years maybe?), you probably shouldn't be purchasing any videogames at all. Opportunity costs bitches (yay I actually learnt something useful other than math in school)

I have a WiiU and have spent the vast majority of my time on PS4 and will only buy maybe 3 games next year. Just like Wii it's gonna be mainly a Smash and WiiU local MP machine which is fine and worth the $200 I paid. I also played through SM3DL, DKCTF, Rayman Legends, and WWHD but sold them all as they just weren't games I could see myself replaying. Still it filled the Summer lull. Will probably play through and sell Yoshi and Zelda next year (maybe get Zelda for Christmas but otherwise wait till both are $30). Maybe I'll keep Starfox depending on the quality. It's been the best Nintendo system I've probably ever gotten and I love it for multimedia too. The gamepad is nice and useful in the OS. The games do all work but the few I get at launch always do regardless if Nintendo or not. I will always get Nintendo home consoles as long as they keep coming out but unless they start getting 3rd party support as good as PS and make the games look the best out of those 2 I won't ever get most of my games for them (hell I have more PS exclusives that I keep than 3rd party so even if that does happen it still may be the case). I'll support them over MS any day though.