What's the incentive of Wii owners to upgrade to a "Wii HD"? The whole point of Wii was graphics don't matter.

That audience was never upgrading just to play Wii Sports and Just Dance in HD when those games ran fine on the regular Wii. And Wii sales were sinking like the Titanic before Wii U ever even showed up. 

I didn't buy the Wii U day one, so I got it when there were enough games that I was intersted in to justify my purchase... so no

I would not buy the system at launch because the system is clearly overpriced and a N64 / 3DS - style correction will follow.

I've put own a wii u and won't buy a switch but that's because I can't imagine buying a Switch for a long time probably 2018/9.

I don't feel upset about the wii u situation and understand Nintendo having to try something new because of the low sales of wii u. I would have been angry if they hadn't released Zelda on wii u though.

I feel like the wii u is a much better product for its day than Switch even though I think wii u was quite poor. Switch as a portable is pretty much only delivering wii u performance and its getting on 5 years since wii u came out and not much better docked. Cartridge sizes are smaller than wii u discs. My wii u has a good range of wii u titles to play most of which are quite cheap plus a huge range of wii titles and if you add homebrew you can add a huge range of other formats including gamecube.

The Switch seems to have limited support even from launch and very little to get excited about. If I didn't have either and had to choose whether to get a wii u or Switch at this point in time I'd happily go with wii u over Switch.

Switch may be a huge success commercially, I don't think so but it may be but it looks to be a complete failure in software terms at least for sometime. It's not just the lack of games but the few that are available are extremely over-priced and not competitive at all.

Unfortunately, all to true.  The Wii U would have sold much better if it just continued the motion controls of the Wii without the gamepad.  So many of the system's problems can be traced to that device, despite its versitility.  It led to the confusion that the gamepad, and therefore the wiiu, was a peripheral.  It drove up the price, which both hurt the system's initial sales and forced them to make it weaker than it should have been, which was a big reason 3rd parties left.  They could have released a cheaper and more powerful system that was more clearly a new console if they just kept motion plus and didn;t bother with the gamepad.

Most Wii owners had the money to buy several new HDTVs and a PS4. So there clearly was a market. And graphics don't matter was always a stupid strategy because graphics do matter a lot, especially if just bought a new HDTV which almost everybody did at that time.

games i got:
bayonetta 2
mario 3d
splat
yoshi
cpt toad
mk8
ttt2
ww
xeno
eshop games
pik3
pokken
other games i don't remember


am i satisfied? yes....
do i feel salty... no, maybe a little because i wanted nintendo to produce more games for it but was cut short by switch... but...
i was able to play some games that i want to play not found in other console.... i am happy
it doesn't have 3rd party? yes but i expected that...
that is why i got a second console....

expecting 3rd party games on a nintendo console is like expecting a mario game on xbox or playstation... it won't happen in a near future...

I wouldn't have minded if there was more games to fit my taste. I still have a few games i want to try before i box up the WiiU.

I bought a WiiU on launch day, had a lot of enjoyment out of it with games like fatal frame, need for speed and Xenoblade chronicles x, but the amount of genuinely great software for it through its lifetime was atrocious, it felt most of the time like Nintendo overpromised and underdelivered with most game release dates slipping significantly, and up until Splatoon released it felt a lot like Nintendo had all but given up on the wiiu and were riding off of the back of the comeback the 3DS made from its poor start , it's only after the popularity of Splatoon and amiibos that it felt like Nintendo were still somewhat interested in supporting the console, but the second they started talking about NX, that support all but dried up beyond milking the fanbase with more amiibos.

I'm not salty though, just extremely cautious going forward with the Switch, I'd rather be skeptical, reserved and apprehensive then jump in the deep end and feel like I had done so far too soon, as I did with both the WiiU and the 3DS when they both first launched.

Almost every feature on the 3DS giving you a "feature not yet available" screen because the launch firmware was nerfed to hell and back was probably the biggest slap to the face I've ever felt in buying a launch console.

They better support the Switch better than they did the Wii U