As Nintendos last home console ever, before the company opt'ed out in favor of its handhelds, I have good and bad memories. Good for the games it did get, and bad for all the games the system didnt. And last time I checked, there were more games which didnt come to it than did, so...

The WiiU is still my favourite way to play certain games like XCX or MH3U though. I kinda like the bulky gamepad, because i usually play when I'm in my bed anyways, so it's comfortably resting on my chest. Plus it's always funny to tease my siblings by using the remote controll feature to switch TV channel :D

I think it is undeniable that it had some bangers. Mario Kart 8 and Breath of the Wild are two of the biggest and most important games of the past 15 years, and they both had their start on the Wii U.
Add to that Super Mario 3D Worlds, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Splatoon, Pikmin 3, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Rayman Legends, Bayonetta 2, Smash Bros 4, Mario Maker, a bunch of indie gems…
I prefer it to Wii and Gamecube, but not to any other Nintendo home console.

I love the Wii U. Always have, always will. IMO the Wii U gamepad is so much more comfortable than any of their handhelds.
Objectively speaking looking back, if you were a home console only player, then yes it would have been a rough ride between big releases. However, I think paired with the 3DS, there was enough software to keep me excited throughout the generation.

Flawed indeed, but extremely overhated in my opinion

While it is true that the console's concept was always odd and that the long game droughts combined with everything related to its marketing and some of its soulless, bizarre, experimental titles were truly terrible, that doesn't change the fact that it also had some amazing games like some people had mentioned already, and that the console itself possesses a certain charm and uniqueness... for me at least.

Personally, I always liked the GamePad concept, even despite its flaws regarding battery life, range, and so on. In fact to this day I stand by my view that the Gamepad is more comfortable to use than the Joy-Cons (especially Switch 1 Joy-Cons); interestingly, my original 2012 GamePad is still working perfectly, whereas I’ve already had to replace my Joy-Cons twice.

In summary I can understand the disappointment or the apathy many people feel, in fact, I agree with some of the criticisms. But personally, I don't regret buying mine; I still have it with me, it works very well, and I have no intention of selling it in the future.

Yeah as someone who didn't really get into the 3DS it was rough, I ended up spending more time on my PS3 and 360 than my Wii U during that gen.

Still though, some good memories with the few gems it did get.

Yeah I also prefer Wii U to Gamecube personally; I liked 3D World more than Sunshine, Mario Kart 8 more than Double Dash, and BOTW more than Wind Waker or Twilight Princess.

Pretty much any game that uses inventory and/or map is better for me with second screen, not to mention games that can only run with 2 screens. So, while I can live without it, Switch 1/2 don't have a feature that was quite important (if underutilized) for WiiU, so from my POV, neither of them are true successors...maybe Switch 3, but who knows.

Stupid name, terrible marketing...but a great concept.

I hate to say it because of the success they found with the Wii and motion controls, but had the WiiU released back then instead, how would that have turned out and affected their direction in the future?

The mii-verse was outstanding and something that I wish they had carried on going forward.

For the brief amount of time it was on the market and despite the low sales, there were some really great games released on it.

it also streamed pornhub like it was its job  =p

Best Mario Kart, best Donkey Kong game, great new ideas (Splatoon, Mario Maker). Nintendo always performs best when a system doesn't sell well.
To a degree, part of Switch's success was because of ports of great Wii U games.

Especially for Mario Maker, the Wii U Gamepad Touchscreen was better than the Switch Touchscreen, although the resolution was worse. The Switch Touchscreen lags behind too much.

Wii U kinda demonstrates that first party alone cannot carry a system, even if your games are great.

The leap to HD also really fucked up their software pipeline so that the games it needed arrived too late to make a difference.

Funnily enough, the one year of third party support it did have produced some pretty good experiences; I had a blast playing Black Ops II with pointer controls, and Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed and Splinter Cell Blacklist were fun as well. Later, The Swapper, Affordable Space Adventures, and Fast Racing Neo were excellent. Problem was, there just weren't enough of them.

One of my favourite systems, but also one of the most underutilized ones.

The gamepad showing something different than what's on the screen could have been used for so many things (still waiting for a game/tool for GM to use the gamepad to tell their story and make the game world while the adventurer party members only see what's on the TV screen, for instance), but this never happened, sadly. And homebrew is also not very active on the console compared to other ones...

Speaking of the Wii U, Nintendo brought over so many games from the console to the Switch... So please, where's NES remix???