bought a wii u this weekend- for my wife and i we decided this would be our xmas gift to ourselves. got two extra controllers and borrowed 2 controllers from some friends taht dont use their wii as much anymore. The package we bought was the one that included NSMBU. (how important are plus controllers? it didnt seem to matter in mario.)
the game was a hit when we had friends over saturday night. everyone could play, and the gamepad person could be really silly as well (either helping or screwing over the players). after nearly 2 hours of playing, everyone was pretty impressed with the system (or so they said) and wanted to play again. i dont have any other games yet, so i am still trying to decide what should be the game to add to the collection. I played nintendoland and thought a few of those were fun, but it was a little hit or miss.
i am a real gamer, while my wife is the definition of casual. for her our ps3 is only used for netflix. most of my friends are the same, and while it is a little depressing to me that when i have tried to get the group to play ps3 games en masse (LBP, All-Stars, Kart) they just never seem to go over that well. for some reason, nintendo just seems to have something extra figured out that always seems to make things work. its kind of amazing to me.
anyway, if anyone can recommend some next games for a group to play, i would appreciate. the obvious ones i see at the store are party u, wario, sonic racing and the winter games.