Me vs Nintendo (?)

I purchased a WiiU earlier this year. I gotta say its a great little system that I enjoy yet there are some problems which irk the hell out of me. First lets talk about the good things so you can see why I bought the thing in the first place. No cost for online! Gratis. Its free ya'll. But like the PS network there are still kinks to be worked out. And like PSN its getting better. Its HD! Yea! It sure looks nice on my 22inch LG. I can see individul spots on Luigis cat costume in 1080 at 60 fps. Thats cool. You can use those red green and blue component cables if you like. Theres no ethernet hole to plug in this time around so if you don't have wi-fi you're screwed. Well unless you have one of those Wii dongles they made you buy when they could have clearly just put a port there. (AHEM!) So anyway... The controller is a cool piece of tech. Its pretty big and tablet shaped. It also has a six inch screen on it with a camera and mic. A great feature to be sure yet practically no one uses it. Nintendo doesn't even support skype and that is such a waste in my opinion. Still it is wonderful you can take the gamepad into another room and continue playing your game. Most of the WiiU games support this feature however I've yet to see a commercial actually illustrate this to the public. Actually most people don't even seem to know this machine exists. Its only just recently that Nintendo has started really promoting the console. The commercials are terrible. Like dumbed down and sterile advertisements made not to offend anyone.  Moving on...
Another feature I like is the Miiverse. Its a social interaction community. Sorta like Facebook only if Facebook were safe and no one was allowed to be rude or to curse. Believe me it feels so GOOD to log on to play games and not have to deal with sexist assholes,racists or homophobic neanderthals with no common courtesy skills. I am ashamed to say from my own experience as a gamer over the years many gamers fit that description which is why my Xbox360 mic is off as is my PS3 mic. In fact I can not even recall the last time I used chat in a game because of all the jerks out there who make it so bad for the rest of us that Microsoft and Sony have been forced to take drastic measures to protect people. Even at the cost of removing cool features from the consoles. Now the gamepad second screen is great when it works but I goota say the distance needs to be improved. Also the battery life is godawful. The second screen idea has been used before in gaming. The PSP offered a neutered form of it as does the PSVita although Sony seems poised to do more with this feature in the future. It will likely keep the Vita alive as Vita TV seems to have flopped. Thank GOD that Nintendo gave us the option of using our own external harddrives unlike some "other companies". There is no DRM crap either so you can sell or trade your games without having to worry about getting charged a fee when you boot a used game up in your console. The system does not rely on an internet connection to function however you can't play dvds,blu-rays or CDs on the system. (You do have Netflix,Youtube, Amazon apps and a pretty decent web browser. Its even capable of viewing PDFs now thanks to a recent update!) Neither does the WiiU support any sort of MP3 playback feature. Thats kinda wierd because even the Wii let you listen to music from SD cards while viewing photos. Theres no photo support at all on WiiU. I had a 500 gig harddrive I forgot about which was passed on to me from a deceased person earlier this year so i hooked it up to my WiiU. Its not likely I will use all that space. If it was the Xbox360 or PS3 it would be different as there plenty of content to download. Nintendo doen't even let you save movies you buy from amazon on the harddrive. Oh yeah once you format the harddrive for the console you cannot use it for anything else. That sucks too.
Thankfully friend codes are a thing of the past (if you are over 18) because they were what I hated most about the Wii. This really made it VERY difficult to make friends with people on the consoles. But you just try asking someone to be your friend or to videochat with you on a nintendo console. I think people just assume you are a child molestor or something.  I found this out the hard way when i atrempted to start a videogame review show on youtube using the WiiU system.  I can't count on one hand the number of people willing to chat and they ended up flaking on me. So what did I do? Well determined to support this all but dying console (not enough 3rd party support) and raise awareness,I purchased a second WiiU console. I figured that would be the only way i could have someone actually join me in chat sessions for my idea. Had to splurge for a videogame footage capture device too but hey...it was a worthy investment right? I dunno man. So far I gave the WiiU to three people to take home and use as they pleased. The only stipulation was that they create an account on Nintendo network and do a videochat session with me once or twice a week for a couple of hours to discuss games,pop culture or to do reviews. Each time it got awkward because I had to have the person return the console. People I trusted and believe in told me to my face they would make time to help me and would LOVE to have such and opportunity yet I learned many people lack motivation for anything unless theres money involved which is no problem for me. I can afford to pay someone minimum wage for a couple of hours. No biggie. To complicate matters Nintendo shut my profile down on their network simply because I said in my profile I have a webseries on youtube called SonsofLegend. You are not allowed to post any way for people to contact you in "the real world" as the moderator told me. They froze my profile for a few days until I posted I understand I violated your policy and won't do it again. Gotta hand it to Nintendo for creating such a safe and carefully thought out online system but man they gotta get it together because right now I am so frustrated with having wasted so much money and time on what may be a console thats dead in the water. The online store has gotten better but it still feels sterile. The console simply needs more games. Yes I love Mario but we need more variety. I am tired of seeing Xbox and Playstation get all the big releases. Shit if they do release a big game Nintendo doesn't advertise it and DLC is ALWAYS late. I don't know what I am gonna do at this point but I am leaning towards abandoning this endeavor and just getting an Xbox1 or PS4 as they are more geared towards taking advantage of social features like game footage sharing and videochat without assuming we are all wackos. Not saying Nintendos fear are unwarranted. People drawing penises became an issue in Miiverse posts (only here in the US) and the y had to shut down one of the cool features of the 3DS called swapnote because people were sending nasty shit to each other. Its hard to be family friendly because there is always some nutjob who will try to test the waters and then you have to hire folks to monitor everything. Ugh! As it stands my little brother might be getting himself a slightly used black limited edition WiiU with 32 gigs of onboard memory. It just feel like the videogame review idea may be a lost cause and I have to look at the writing on the wall and effectively EAT IT.  The 3rd person to get the WiiU is returning it next week so until then I will continue my search for a co-moderator. Placed an ad on Craigslist offering minimum wage so we will just have to wait and see if anyone is interested in making alittle extra money in this experiment. I even took to facebook and did some googling for WiiU chat groups. We will see what happens...