@PoshSnivy
The difference is that when the 3DS was failing the Vita was on the horizon and it looked as though it might be an interesting change in what company dominated the portable space. Whether it was Apple or Sony it looked like if Nintendo didn't work it's stuff out it wasn't going to be Nintendo. Then they cut the price and launched OoT3D, Mario Kart 7 and 3D Land and it turned around overnight.

With the Vita? There's no story. Sony has lost and there's nothing interesting to say about it. The Vita will probably be brushed under the carpet like the Virtual Boy. There's nothing they really need to say about it... is there? Do you really want to read long articles about what Sony did wrong? I don't... personally I don't care.

edit: if you want to see "IGN bias" look at their video comparing Sony's "Smash Clone" with Smash Bros.

Thank You @PoshSnivy, you at least tried to make sense of what I was saying. I agree with what he said too, when the 3DS was suffering from launch issues, IGN was very biased towards Nintendo and started criticizing them for having no games and saying the Vita was gonna be the awesome new tech and you know where that's gone.
The point I was trying to make @skywake, was what @PoshSnivy is saying. Ign doesn't hate on the Kinect, Vita or Move, but everyone loves to hate Nintendo for some unfathomable reason, even though now we have a 3D handheld that's successful and now a HD Nintendo system that's just starting out.

Anyway can we move this discussion to a more positive state and get back to the actual launch discussion?

1 week till it launches here! Can't wait!!

Nintendo isn't even trying with the 3DS also 3rd party support is starting to dry up and the VITA is still getting smashed into oblivion

hmm k weird enough i did pass by a kmart that day of release and i happen to ask and got the same reply but im not sure about that store its worse then walmart they rly dont have a gaming section they didnt even have any recent games there o_o

Only 7 days to go here

I hope everyone who has already gotten one is happy with the purchase.

I guess that's fair reasoning...

7 days!

@RetroGBHippie92
I'm fairly sure they do complain about crappy Kinect games and the Move/Vita are hardly worth talking about at all. Maybe we should criticise them for not spending enough time criticising the Go and NGage. Nintendo messed up the 3DS launch and the Wii U has some problems at its launch. It's not rocket science.

Guess what? I got a Wii U My family went to the mall for black friday and I went to gamestop. I asked if they had Wii U's aand they did. In fact,they had like 6 Deluxe packs. So I got my Deluxe Wii U today I played Nintendo Land and I love it!

Congratulations! A winner is you!

I purchased my Wii U Deluxe Set on Launch day at Best Buy (I reserved it). An employee told me that I am lucky because I had been only one of 4 people to have a reservation because they only allowed them for a limited amount of time (I paid a $5 deposit in September).

I love Wii U! I'm having a blast! New Super Mario Bros. is so much fun! Nintendo Land is a lot of fun, too! I love the Wii U GamePad, and Miiverse is amazing!

Guys I've had my doubts about the design of the Wii U and how it'll fit my gaming room with the other consoles but it stands out. These Glossy and sturdy plastic materials give it a unique and premium look. Just like it's pointed out in this video.
http://youtu.be/HB7arUmfe64

Why do you keep showing this?

Because I found something that expresses better my post

A quick browse on the internet showed me what I was already fearing: Some shops in Holland are totally ripping us off!
For example, some shops ask 63 Euro's for a single game while it should be 60! I saw even a shop that sold certain games for 70 (!!) Euro's!!

And then the console itself: I saw a basic bundle for 279, and a premium for 326. Those are nice prices, and there is the potential that it will go down a bit next year! But I also saw shops that sell the basic bundle at 313 (!!) and the premium at 365 (!!). It seems many shops still don't want to realize that it is crisis, and that nobody wants to pay this much (with the exception during christmas time)! As for the game-prices: We will get a 3DS situation: In Europe the 3DS games stay on the shelf because the people think they are to expensive! The shops have learned nothing!!

Well, at least I know now wich shops I have to avoid console wise. But it's trickier with games, since I can't take the train all the time to get those games. And in my area there is not much choice!

I'm curious as I didn't think this was getting released as the cpu is crap (or was that another game)

http://www.play.com/Games/Wii/4-/20429729/0/Metro-Last-Light/...

It's an old listing. A video was shown at E3 when the Wii U was first announced, showing off Metro Last Light, but the developers changed their minds about it a few months later.

The CPU isn't crap, the reason these devs aren't supporting the Wii U is because Nintendo wants all devs to code for the GPGPU and leave the CPU of the Wii U out for other features of the game. This means fast loading times and better graphics, unfortunately devs have been coding for the CPU for other consoles for the last 6 years and are unfamiliar with this new processing unit.

@RetroGBHippie92
There would be no difference in hardware between the Wii U with its system-on-a-chip setup and separate GPU/CPU in terms of programming. The difference is in difficulty to manufacture (which means lower yields and therefore higher prices) and reduced power consumption. So they can make something more powerful that requires less cooling and is less likely to overheat. Nothing to do with the programming side of it.

AMD have an APU which they build and it's the same thing. They put a low-ish end GPU on the chip along with the CPU. Intel does similar and puts a GPU into their CPU these days but it's not as powerful as AMDs in terms of onboard graphics and probably isn't as comparable to what Nintendo is doing. Actually it's a bigger trend in general because all of the desktop/mobile CPUs these days have integrated memory controllers and all sorts. Gone are the days of a CPU just being a CPU.

@skywake

Except the Wii U's SoC is not just a CPU+GPU like the PS3 and XBox 360 have under their hoods, nor are AMD's APUs and Intel's SoCs that same way. They all contain a CPU+GPGPU, where the GPGPU is more than just a GPU, and has to be programmed separately from the CPU to take advantage of it.