We bought a WiiU about 18 month ago.

It's a neat little console and that gamepad with screen lead to some really interesting bits in games, although it was still a bit niche and didn't gain much traction, which seems like a shame. Nintendoland and WiiU party (it maybe was called somethign simialr but not exactly that) introduced a few neat bits.

- A hide and seek game, where the 'hider' used the pad and the rest of the players had the big screen
- 2 player games where both players get a full screen.
- A board game where the player on the pad gets to control the environment and movements of pieces that aren't under direct control of the other players.
- Using the touch screen to lay out levels in Mario Maker was fab and intuitive

As neat as they were, though, they weren't system sellers.

Using smartphones to link up by 'playlink' seems clever, especially for quiz games. I used to love a bit of those 'Buzz!' quiz games on PS2.