Laughing you're preaching to the choir man, and funny coincidence I hadn't turned mine on for a couple months or so too and even then that last play was with another gap in time before that too. The sick thing, the one time I do turn it on, it bricks itself partially (the system 'wrench' menu) so it had to go in for repair. I just got an email earlier today saying it was now back to me which is pretty fast as they got it end of day Friday and put it out today and it's USPS (was UPS label on them outgoing.) I'm sure they probably just flashed whatever, doubt my data is gone but the sad sad sad thing is, if it is I actually wouldn't get upset about it despite the fact I really should.
Nintendo with the WiiU blew it in many ways as you put it speechless and delusional to their handling and that's both public and private. Internally they were awarded third party support on a silver platter had they gone with hardware on the level of the other two and they gave the industry the bird and said do tablet controller games or suck it...and they gave em the finger back and consistently still do by the week. Then you have the asinine naming and branding matching the Wii with a U on it confusing the shit out of most people including retail where I bumped into enough people trying to call it an addon tablet for WII! Combo all that greatness with running absolutely no advertising at all other than last Christmas season to then pull it right after the new year and it was setup to die the death of a thousand ignorant red tape papercuts.
On the bright side if you're a fan of digital long term rental software, they probably have the most interesting set of indie game titles going for them on the eshop. Which again is another failure, they do not advertise it or the virtual console at all which would be their most easiest source of cheap mass revenue since no physical media or packaging/shipping is involved there either. That plays into that Wii Sports HD rehash as I bet you're right it would lure in some people just as it did before, but again you know, they don't advertise.
I hope when I get it back in a few more days they at least put the new firmware on there since my luck caused it to brick out the first time.
Honestly I really do want to make some time and start using it again as I really should put some time on the stuff I left unfinished.