Why I will not buy a Wii U

I've been a loyal buyer of Nintendo products since the first Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the early 1980s, but that trend is about to stop and for very specific reasons.

1) Bad customer support:
When I brought home the original Nintendo DS and discovered it had dead pixels on it, I called Nintendo and the person on the phone didn't want to fix or replace it.

2) Doesn't support own products:
Shortly after buying the e-Reader add-on for the Gameboy Advance, Nintendo decided to cancel the Cards used for game scanning. Also very few games took advantage of the Transfer Pak used with Pokemon Stadium. Wii Speak is another of these unsupported products. Other than Animal Crossing: City Folks, can anyone really say they use Wii Speak?

3) Lack of good 3rd-party support.
The Nintendo 64 was the last Nintendo console to enjoy really good 3rd-party support. The GameCube was reappearing off support, and the Wii almost has none. Great 3rd-party companies, such as Midway, are giving all their support to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 these days. Why should I be unable to play the latest Mortal Kombat just because I own a Wii? In households where they can only afford one console, will be disappointed with this lack of support.

4) No vision for the future.
Before the Wii came out, I had 3 HDTVs in my house (Nintendo's reasoning for only supporting up to 480p was that not enough people had HDTVs). Now that companies like Vizio are making 21:9 TVs with 4K resolution, Nintendo is going to finally support 1080p. They are backward in their thinking. You should future-proof, NOT produce something that is outdated before the box is even opened! The Wii looks horrible on my TV.


So with all these faults, why should I continue to support Nintendo? This is the end of an era Goodbye Nintendo, it was fun while it lasted.