WiiU pre-release was a fun ride. A year of people laying out the reality Nintendo was in, what they were doing wrong, what was about to go wrong. Nintendo fanboys had a counter for any reasonable claim how the Wii-U was going to be a disaster.
One of the bigger debates being if the name "Wii-U" was too similar to Wii. Nintendo fanboys argued how it was smart, Apple-esque, how only the biggest morons possible would confuse the two.
Turns out the majority of games customers that don't follow any games stuff on the internet were confused before, during, and after the consoles launch
