Well, people keep on quoting Chrop here with complete agreement, so let me just make a one-swoop post addressing his rebuttals instead of replying to each person's post.
Can't take you seriously... What an excellent way to lead in to a good post. Spot-on; two crumpets, and a lovely cup of tea to thee.
1. The Xbox one and PS4 is more powerful, even tho reality has proven time and time again that better hardware does not equal better console
Power would be a silly thing to have issues with... If the Wii U wasn't so expensive in comparison to the more powerful consoles this go-round. With the Wii it was justified and fully acceptable to be weaker -- It was WAAAAAY cheaper. But the fact of the matter is, the Wii U is not cheap. Also, his point on the Hard-Drive space is completely valid. You either make your game with the limit in mind, or you limit your audience by bypassing it. This is a huge issue.
2. Because they had a bad launch... so did the 3DS, look at it now
They had a bad launch with the 3DS because nothing was out there quite yet. They've had a bad launch with the Wii U because some clown in their release department decided that pushing back all of those, "Launch Window," games was a good idea. May I remind you that Pikmin 3 was a Launch Title? And it was this way until a month or so before the system's release if I remember correctly. Same for Wonderful 101. These titles alone would have remedied the launch woes of having nothing to play if they were actually, you know, released in Launch Window like we were told.
The 3DS situation is arguably worse, but at least there we didn't have any, "broken promises." (For lack of better words.)
3. You hate the fact that Nintendo is having a hard time making HD games, By the way, THEY HAVE NEVER MADE AN HD GAME BEFORE, Obviously it shouldn't come as a surprise they have a hard time. GIve them some slack ffs. None of the Third parties complained, wanna know why? because they have had experience making HD games...
Said it before, will say it now. The, "HD DEVELOPMENT IS HARD WORK, GIVE THEM A BREAK!" argument is ridiculous. Nintendo didn't have any games to work on for around two years at the end of the Wii's life-cycle. They could have been prepping for this moment the entire time. But they didn't. (For all intents and purposes, they may have been, but if they were... Well they didn't prepare enough. >_>) And if they knew that it would be so hard (By paying attention to Sony and Microsoft's issues with the same thing...), they could have pushed the system back another year -- When it is actually ready! At least by then all of the games we're looking forward to now would be done and being released in a steady flow.
4. The fact 3rd parties aren't jumping on the Wii U... You bought a Nintendo console, what did you expect? Seriously you did own most of their past consoles, you should have easily known what was going to happen.
He was probably just, y'know, expecting Third-Party games since they were toted so much at E3 2012. The Wii U was a true switch-up; it was launching with Third-Party's taking front seat. It appeared that this was finally the console that Nintendo was giving a true effort in getting Third-Parties with. The thought that it actually wouldn't happen this time is... Pretty reasonable.
5. "I regret buying a Wii U now because it's gathering dust" No!!!! Really? i mean if you actually bought games for it instead of canceling pre-orders then maybe it wouldn't.
Yeah can't really say anything on cancelling all his pre-orders. That's just silly. Sorry, alan. =P
6. "the playing the full game on the gamepad is also pretty pointless in my view" Opinion, a very 1 sided opinion. I BEARLY ever get the chance to have the T.V to myself, it is one of the most convenient features any console has ever had for me. Ooh and I can actually play my games in my own bed instead of being stuck downstairs.
Opinions, how do they work? I love Off-TV Play more than you'd believe, but calling his opinion one-sided then not saying the same about yours is senseless. With that said, Protip: Using the opinion card as a rebuttal is never a good idea since it, quite literally, can't work.
If you are being serious with all of these things, i have a simple answer, Sell the Wii U and never buy it again. I'm serious.
Said it in my last post, but selling consoles is generally a bad idea. Unless you literally have zero interest in upcoming games, selling your console is just a massive cut into the wallet. Before giving him a, "simple answer," how about you present him with reasons not to? Such as the positivity he was asking for in the first place. (This goes for the whole post -- none of it is positive -- but it fit here best.) Giving advice just for simplicity isn't giving good advice.
]if you are having such a bad time with it and pointing out stupid and idiotic things wrong with it, then just sell it. There is no point in having it if you are complain about these things about it.
Nothing he pointed out as an issue is stupid. (Or idiotic, but that's a synonym... You said the same thing twice, lol.) As for the, "No point," statement, I think that's the reason he posted this thread in the first place. He wanted a point to keep it. He wanted positivity. Not... This.