I agree with you 100%.
I really don't know why Nintendo are even bothering going after the 'core' market again, the last time they did the console sold 21 million units and they were abandoned by the third parties yet again.
The big games for these 'core' gamers are Call of Duty, Madden, Fifa, WWE, Assassin's Creed ect which they can already play on their PS3 or 360.
Sure it will be nice for guys that only own a Wii to be able to play these games when Wii U launches (how many gamers actually only own a Wii ?) but do Nintendo really expect people who do own one of those consoles to buy the Wii U version when they can add to their Acheivement / Trophy haul and play the MP with their friends who will most likely laugh at them when they tell them they have bought a Wii U and have statements like 'should of waited for the PS4 / 720 dudebro !!!' thrown at them.
Those 'core' gamers are tied to their consoles through their profiles which include all their friends and Achievements / Trophies.
The Wii U should have been out for last Xmas imho, that would have given it two whole years of a start on the PS4 / 720 and the exclusive games would have looked even more impresive.
I tell you what, unless Nintendo have something truly earth shattering to announce software wise at E3, i could see the Wii U struggling just as bad as the 3DS at launch.
A proper 3D Mario game along with Metroid and Starfox would have been much more of a draw.
Yet another NSMB and a sequel to one of Nintendo least know franchises will just not cut it imo.
A lot of 360 only gamers have bought Kinect for their casual / family / kid fix and upgraded to PS3 for a Blu Ray player and the Sony exclusives they missed.
A Tablet pad and those two first party games will NOT convince the 'core' gamer to part with $300 at the least for a Wii U console and Pikmin 3, esp when MS announces the 720 in Jan and Sony announce PS4 at next years E3 (which if rumoures are to be believed PS4/720 will be at least twice as powerful as Wii U).
When will they learn that the 'core' will never take anything with Nintendo nevermind Wii stamped on it seriously.
They should have stuck to what made the Wii successful, use the gimmick (tablet pad), lots of casual / family / kids games and give us 9 or 10 of their more core exclusive first party IP's just like the Wii, just like the NES, just like the SNES and just like the N64.
By E3 2013 i doubt Wii U will have sold 10 million consoles, we will all have completed Pikmin 3 and will be waiting years for a proper Mario, Metroid, Zelda... as a huge Nintendo fan that saddens me.