Sometimes I think Nintendo Gets a little cheap when making there consoles, I'll still keep killing my wallet for them though.
Maybe ..if you only see the WiiU as a pure computacional upgrade, or a straightforward improvement in specs ( like other game companies use to do when releasing a new console). It's also easier to analise a straightforward improvement like that cause you can compare the new hardware with the previous one.. ..but that's not exactly what Nintendo is used to do.
The basic things that are in the new hardware can't have its specs compared with the previous hardware, cause they are different (the base of the hardware have been changed, different from what Sony and Microsoft usually does, that is: keep the base and add stuff to it) ...that's why Nintendo is always saying "a new way to play games" I guess..
So, in my view, is not like they are getting too cheap ( even though they do have the intention to have a accessible price) ...is more like if they like to have a change of values, applying its money in different things that will compose the new hardware base in 1st place, and also the other things that will support it.
Ex: the wii had the motion thing as its new base. I believe that for the time, it was a not so cheap investment... so it would make sense to invest more money on it then on the other specs.
I like this "change of values" strategy that Nintendo has. But not that much when it is applied in a extreme way (like the wii was). It needs a bit of the other companies strategy too I think ("keep the base and add stuff to it") to avoid a high estrangement from customers and
third-party
developers.
The Wii U seems to be made by this major Nintendo strategy, but has a bit of the other one too ...so by that, it can maybe have a good rate of acceptance.
Did I made myself clear? o.o maybe hehe