Type in Wii U at google and search for news which declare the Wii U as an add-on to the Wii or other false information.
Why would I do that?
I have never said that no one is calling the Wii U a new system. I just think that (again), the system may cause confusion for a good number of people.
You try to stand a point with a CNN-article which is going to be corrected in the future and one comment from Jimmy Fallon, which has been distinguished in the show.
It's not just that. It's other examples as well.
Personal experiences with uninformed people are useless as they're going to be informed by newspapers/sites and TV-commercials.
lol...
Maybe I'm different, but if I noticed that some people were getting confused about what my product is, I would try to find ways to change it.
I wouldn't just say, "Hey... whatever... what they think is useless" and move on. I would treat it as a concern they might need to be corrected.
They didn't "advertise" it until now, they introduced it at E3 to the gaming community.
Newspapers usually catch up on something like that and inform the mainstream audience in that certain week.
But they did show it off pretty in depth at both E3 conferences... more in depth than they would in a 2-3 minute ad for obvious reasons.
If people still ended up being confused over what the Wii U was after seeing the conference, Nintendo is going to have a hard time if they show it off in a similar way in a 2-3 minute ad. Due to the reduced time, you (obviously) have to cut to the chase. The Wii U GamePad Tablet is the main thing that Nintendo is showing off. Therefore, based on how they are currently showing it off, I don't think it's crazy to think that Nintendo will just show the various things that can be done with the Wii U tablet in a 2-3 minute ad and never really talk about the new system itself.
As the launch approaches, Nintendo is going to market this correctly.
Like I said, we'll see.
And 400,000 people on the Wii U fanpage certainly get that this is a new system.
I would hope that people on a fanpage would understand practically everything about the system that they are a "fan" off...