And let me save you the trouble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVXJmfd3cmg

Ebay flooded with pre-Firmware 5.5 Wii U systems.

After hearing it on the Giant Beastcast, I do wonder how much money was invested in to Nintendo TVii. I naively assume it was very little due to how poor the service was, but maybe it cost a lot to build and maintain the damn thing.

The irony of the whole thing is that making TVii actually responsive was all that service really needed.  I had fun with it when it worked.

I honestly would buy a tablet and an app for pretty much the exact same thing but actually responsive.

I would have been happy to use TVii because it was a great idea, the problem was that I could never get it to actually recognize my TV.

It had some great potential, (if they used it properly), I'm glad it's gone, but I still wish they could have made it work like I was hoping it should have.

I never once opened that app.

I'm pretty sure I opened it exactly once.

I opened it a few times and was trying to decide if I liked it and would use it while watching sports...then I canceled Cable and went strictly Netflix/Hulu Plus. Then there was no need/use for it and I never again opened it.