First of all Jane, you completely failed here. Like you said in your OWN article, the message was sent to Wii consoles, NOT Wii U consoles. They are not reminding Wii U owners they have a new console, they are informing the original Wii owners to maybe upgrade their product. Kind of redundant, their marketing should be informing them of that. A lot of Wii owners however are new/casual players and apparently don't understand new consoles come out more frequently than once a century. Marketing has been pretty bad, but I can't comprehend how they don't understand it's a new system. Snarky PC gamer comments aside, there are a lot of people who have went "What? What is that?"
I don't even know why most of the games would "look better than xbox/ps3" when most of the games for it are just ports from those systems. That's what publishers want these days, easy ports. Publishers aren't trying to make you happy, they're trying to skim every dollar off you they can. It's not a question of "best platform for the game", it's a question of "where do we get best sales?" Madden could be amazing with the second screen doing plays. Nope, last one didn't sell enough no Madden on Wii U this year. I'm sure they're annoyed enough at having to figure out uses for the second screen and actually work for their sales. To say it's not an upgrade from Wii graphically however is to say there is no difference between SD and HD. What are you, blind?
The real problem here is a lack of games on it. Even their own Nintendo Directs are more focused on the budding 3DS and have little to promise for Wii U. They could however be saving up announcements for E3. I'm pretty sure if they announced a new Smash Bros or Zelda for the holidays a lot of voices would be silenced.
"But they aren't going to E3!"
So what? Do you understand what E3 is? You are not going. Journalists go there, take pictures for you, report back, and you read what happened and watch videos. Nintendo just cut out the middle man. They can drop those trailers on the same day over Nintendo Direct instead of a crowded, greasy stage and it will have the same effect. E3 is just a news announcement holiday. Journalists do not report back to you, Nintendo gives it to you, direct. E3 does not benefit me at all, I'd rather they save the money. Publishers in general are questioning E3 this year after how poorly last year went.
Really, so much hatemongering. The reason they're trying so hard to get them in homes is because people that actually own them are satisfied with everything other than a lack of games, which will roll in eventually. Nintendo is in the red and plowing ahead, Sony has been selling off and shutting down assets left and right to get in the black, guess who's actually doing better financially?