Maybe that has a lot to do with the virtual console. I know that the love I have for the Wii is greatly influenced by the virtual console.

Not to mention that, so far, the WiiU is the ultimate Zelda console, if you love Zelda the WiiU is the machine for you.

People on here lump only Nintendo in with nostalgia milking and the like but at the same time, how many non-Nintendo remakes and remasters have we had this generation?

Not really, he have like 30 retail games for WiiU.

I guess it was due to Hyrule Warriors (he love both Zelda and Dinasty Warriors so for him was a match of heaven), Pokken, Mario Kart and Smash.

OP didn't even list Nintendo and most of the posts were on franchises that were not made by Nintendo. But will you deny Nintendo milk their franchises?

I mentioned that certain people on this thread did, I did not state the OP. I won't deny that Nintendo do milk certain franchises a tad, but at the same time, we can't be ignorant and lump only them when there has been so many other games that have been remade or remastered for this generation.

You said "people here". And your argument was in defense of Nintendo, like for you to accept saying Nintendo that person needs to list all companies that done it? OP is very clear on this being something the market in general have been doing and people gave examples they remembered. Still you didn't took offense that he basically only listed Square Enix.

Apologies my bad, I got too worked up too easily and it clouded my thinking too much. I've calmed down now. I'll have to say generally, yes Square Enix does milk Final Fantasy a lot. But my personal big offender is Sega with the Sonic franchise.

Sega milks the Sonic franchise far too much, while also pandering and heavily relying on nostalgia with general themes and designs (levels, enemies, even boss fights) being rehashed and reused so many times (how many variations of Green Hill Zone have we had?). And yet they aren't able to be consistently successful with the franchise nowadays (besides the brilliant but fan developed Sonic Mania) while leaving so many of their own franchises and IPs (Jet Set Radio, Skies of Arcadia, House of the Dead, Crazy Taxi and much more) locked up and dormant, barely even given a chance to at least develop further or get a sequel. 

Capcom with the Resident Evil Series. They've just about remade and or remastered every game in the series up to 5.

I'm guessing they are now working on a remake of RE4.

The worse part on Sonic is that they generally don't even make good games. I totally understand Nintendo milking their franchises and character because it add sales and they don't let the quality drop because of it (and generally each serie have one or at most two entries in a gen). I don't even know if they are variations or the same level with new textures (Green Hill Zone, but I do love the level and music).

I believe it.  It was honestly a much better system than people give it credit for.  I also have around 40 physical games for it.  EA may have only released 1 Madden NFL on it as I said, but my friend and I still play it to this day (well up until the stay home orders the pandemic brought on).  Having a touch screen that I can draw hot routes on for my receivers at the line of scrimmage was an amazing innovation, and you can do the same with making changes on the fly to blitz packages or coverage on defense.  Aside from the gaming aspect, I also used the Wii U gamepad as my default web browser for years.  Larger screen than my phone, and easier to just pick-up the Gamepad from right next to me to look something up than to get up and turn on my PC and pull out my keyboard and mouse.  It was also my go to for Netflix and YouTube for a long time before I upgraded to a smart TV a couple of years ago.  Some of the Gamepad lives on in the form factor & touchscreen utility of the Nintendo Switch in portable mode, so I'm glad that Nintendo managed to successfully merge the two states (console & portable).