the wii u negativity was different. there was a lot of positivity during the pre-reveal, 'project cafe' time, but negativity happened after nintendo had shown the thing. there was confusion in 2011, and then a complete underwhelming re-reveal a year later. there was also a lot of pent-up rage for nintendo having killed video games with the wii remote, or at least that's how i translated the whole episode of 'wii u graphics' (actual videos of 360 games) looking worse than 360 graphics.
this is an immediate dislike to something that's different. it's okay, but there's really no context for it yet. there's an expectation, perhaps, that nintendo is chasing a certain audience or 'abandoning' a certain audience (this never happened), but we actually won't know until there is an announcement and an explanation of the hardware and concept. if this thing is actually the centerpiece of the nx, and nintendo comes out and shows off a bunch of cool things with it, then it's possible that the negativity will go away pretty early, which would be more like what happened with the wii remote.
i'm actually intrigued by this, which is more than i can say about the gamepad. that thing always seemed like a clunky fusion of two ideas. this seems more elegant and might have more potential for new ideas.
