@Mop it upPeople buy every video game console not called "Playstation" for the games. (Playstations they sometimes buy for their playing of DVDs/Blu-rays.) Nintendo has no games on the Wii U. They are finally starting to come, with Pikmin 3 last Sunday, but the
big hitters don't do their hitting until December at the earliest, and really 2014 when Mario Kart and Smash Brothers come along. (But let's not rule out Mario 3D and Donkey Kong.)
Sales are bad because games are bad (library), not because of price of console. People are still buying the PS3 at a higher price. Why? Because it now has the
games. It didn't have the games several years ago. What Sony misjudged at the launch of the PS3 was that people buy systems for games, not for whatever else. It's why no one was willing to drop $600 on a machine with zero to play, like they claimed people would.
People buy expensive stuff if they feel it's worth it. It's how Coach purse stores stay in business, much to my dismay. Anyway, how many people even HERE have yet to buy a Wii U because the games aren't there? And to contrast that: How many would buy it tomorrow, full price and all, if Nintendo's next Direct was "Surprise! We're launching Kart, Brawl, Mario 3D, and a new Zelda today, ha ha, we fooled you!" Answer: Almost everyone.
Heck, I'd probably go buy a second one if they did that, just because clearly the world has gone insane in that fantasy of mine.
EDIT: Honestly, thinking about it, why buy a Wii U? Like, WHY? What is there so compelling that you'd want one? (I bought one because I knew Pikmin 3 was coming, and we had the funds at launch. But it was a stupid purchase, honestly.) If the Wii U was $250 instead of $300, there would STILL be no real reason to get one. That extra $50 doesn't suddenly make a slew of great games appear in its library.