It is not as bad as it was before Launch. I've been here for the whole thing as many of us here have. You should not take the weight of it though. Just enjoy it.
Now that we have Wii U out. There are many negatives about it, the heat is well deserved and Nintendo should listen.
My thing is there is a lot of things the Wii U is doing right and I am really enjoying myself on that side of the fence since I knew this was an investment I would enjoy. But you have to be willing to see the negatives. Some of it is funny because I really enjoy looking at a company that denied the need for online try so hard to play catch up. After all that is what we do on NeoGAF is follow the industry and talk about games.
What people don't understand about the safety of these threads is that this is where people who have followed Nintendo for decades can come to talk about the latest.
People do not understand what a Nintendo fan puts up with. If you suffered through all the shit Nintendo had put you through from N64 and Square Soft going CD exclusive and all the little quirks that kept Nintendo back and separated from SEGA/SONY/MS now you can even call SONY/MS consoles the HD twins and know where you stand with guaranteed 3rd Party Support on both.
Nintendo? I remember get N or get Out... that shit is true but not in the way they meant it.
You just got to love them or hate them a core gamer can't impulse buy a Nintendo product, not the home consoles anyway unless you work in the industry. If you work at Giantbomb and have to suffer the shit because it's your job that is one thing.
Seeing ced pass up a perfectly good PS3 replacement to buy a Wii U make me scratch my head. How are you going to pass up a library of games like that and still think you are going to be happy with money well spent unless you are one of the people in here who has some really strange attachment to Nintendo IPs? Not to lump us all together, I am having a different experience from say EatChildren but he had his reasons for owning a Wii U just like I had mine. So we can put up with Nintendo's shit because we've been here before.
I am having a different experience from a lot of people because I have not played as many games outside of Nintendo platforms. I am not a core gamer, many things are new experiences. I could have spent my money on a 360 or PS3 in November the HD experience would be just as new but I would feel like a fish out of water. It would not be the experience I expected or looked forward to. But when you read GAF everyday you soon know that the world outside of Nintendo is vast and in many ways ahead of them. Most gamers find PS3/360 a better value for good reason. Nintendo is not suddenly going to join the party and make the twins a threesome. So what is being talk about outside this thread is pretty good IMH it is a sign that Nintendo is slowly entering into that market.
Wii U is this generation's late to the party console. SMH but it is very true. All Nintendo Fans should admit the Wii HD should have been done in 2006. I'm not saying Wii U as it is today would not have cost $899 to have done so 2006, but a lot could have been learned from Wii HD that would have made Wii U better so I do understand the flack they are getting coming in late with 2006 issues the other guys have solved and evolved from over the years.
In the end it was a perfect business move for Nintendo to have an SD Wii focus on the Wiimote. I believe the Wii U will prove to be a very smart move for them, if they can also move beyond the growing pain issues and evolve the OS into a smoother faster system. The Wii U is a really good POS for those who know Nintendo, you don't have to love them but you do need to know what you are getting into otherwise you are wasting your time and money, in that respect it does not deserve the hate from you since it was not your thing to begin with.
Gaming Industry discussions like Evilore's warning about Console Wars, Fanboys and such are great ways to keep these forums from turning into shit.
Yet we still fail to point out the only problem Nintendo really has in the industry is that people have not gotten the message. They are not the same as the others as frustrating to long time aged into adulthood fans as this may be. No matter how you try you'll be hard pressed to Twin them with anyone. You can love or hate them but they will never deliver the same experience you got with PS3/360. You can't just trade one for the other and expect to be happy. Not yet anyway.
This is why we see people like Michael Pachter and Nintendo make such an odd match up. Dude keeps thinking he should get the same results out of Nintendo as the other guys and they are crazy not to give it. All of this is still very entertaining to watch.
I'm with Hip Hop Gamer on this, you got to have heart. It means you got to enjoy games FIRST people. Know what you love and stick to it. Don't trade your PS3 for a Wii U and call it shit when you did not get what you expected out of it.
Man I could have used the time it took to type this shit out on Miivese, damn you Pikma got me all emotional