See guys, the Wii U is not overpriced... It's a good value :).

What kind of an argument is that?? I just told you I recently discovered the SNES and enjoyed one of its games thoroughly, so what relevance does my enjoyment NOW has as to do with the SNES being the most advanced system THEN? Do you think I traveled back in time when I played it or what? And I am not saying great graphics is irrelevant, but its a useless argument for choosing one system over another. If resolution is he number one reason, why ever get a console, because it will not take long until its beaten by PC or another console. I am thinking that you are creating arguments for argument´s sake.

Hey I feel the same as an XOne owner. We have to keep in mind that we forum dwellers are a minority in gaming.

I agree that Wii have been the secondary console for a lot of people and probably not only inflated wii first years (dampening a little PS3/X360, but strange to buy the secondary console before the main) but also sustained the sales a little more on the end-life. But we can't clearly decide on how much it impacted... and from these numbers of Nilsen I don't see how to infer most 8th gen users had Wii.

I thought it was pretty obvious.  But, I'll go ahead and spell it out for you.  Because people want graphics, which also includes higher resolutions, to improve, we have new systems.  Without that want, there would be no SNES.  We would all still be playing the NES, or maybe even the Atari 2600, in 480i.  This is why people going on and on about how resolution doesn't matter, even though it did before, are quite obvious in their bias.  The hypocracy is that when their fav console has another successor, especially if it's ahead graphically, they will go back to praising the heightened graphics AND resolution.

Also, the PC argument is completely void.  Most people prefer the console experience, or at the very least, like both.  Gamers gladly give up some graphic fidelity in exchange for a easier, unified experience, as well as a cheaper upfront cost.

Good point, but I see the Nintendo "fun" reason more about fun with gameplay, rather than tech specs or graphics  

Lets face it, people that bought a Wii U did not buy it becuase of it's power otherwise they would have bought a PS4, they had other reasons, I think fun gameplay was the prime mover, and they thought theyll get that from the Wii U with the general consensus being that games so far are little lacking on the PS4 and XB1 in comparison to the Wii U

Interesting. Never knew people were so loyal to Xbox.

Well I didn't saw the other plats each owned on 7th gen just that 66% of ps4, 75% of x1 and 85% of WiiU owned previous iteration. How could 72% of ps4 owners have Wii while only 66% owned ps3? Quite odd.

But if yours numbers are right yes a lot of early buyer had Wii. Although this is probably small group survey, and looking at attach rate and non-Nintendo sw sale most are casual games. So I would say there is a nice spread of hardcore multi-console, Nintendo fan and casuals.

I don't think people outside Nintendo don't value fun on gameplay, just that they either think funny gameplay is offered by ms/sony not ninty. Or even valuing gameplay they are looking for graphics as well or are output because of "kiddie" image.