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Is it time for Nintendo to ditch the Gamepad?

Yes 45 13.60%
 
No 144 43.50%
 
Last Year was the time 18 5.44%
 
Launch was the best time 19 5.74%
 
Its to late now, it wont do any good 86 25.98%
 
See results 19 5.74%
 
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Lets face it, the Gamepad for the wii u has got to go. Something MS realise soon enoughf and debundled the kinect. The Wii U has barely crossed 10 mil in theesse 3 years and they themselfs have said that the Wii U is in a bad position. Then they are planing the release of the NX soon, witch will cut the legs of the Wii U inmediatly, wich there are rumors that it might come as early ass 2016 hollidays.

I know this is not the first time someone sugested to get rid of the gamepad, but litsen.

The Wii U will oficially die as soon as the NX gets anounced, not even released, but as soon as nintendo shows what it is and when it might come people will wait for it or skip both.

This will create another sega situation, where they cut the life of a product to soon and people just lost trust on the company. To avoid this, they should separate the gamepad, that way they can reduce the price. inmagine how well a $200 Wii U with a pro controller would sell like. This will at least buy nintendo another year without releasing the next console and consumers wont loose as much trust.

The main reason the Wii U is not selling is the price in my opinion. At $300 its dificult to consider it, while the next best thing is a $350 X1 with much better graphics and full third party suport and multiple bundles going around that offer many free games. Only a die hard fan would choose the Wii U ad theres not that manny of them cuz they havent released manny of their key titles yet, or ever will ass it looks like.

Im all for them seing value in it and all, but its to late. They have barely shown any need for the thing. If they are not even going to try, why force it upon people and jack up the price. At least give the poor console a fighting chance before the next one comes up. 



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Ditching it now won't do anything at all at this point.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

mZuzek said:
By now, it'll do more bad than good... especially more so considering Nintendo's 3 major games this year (Splatoon, Super Mario Maker and Star Fox Zero) all make good use of the Gamepad.


Mario maker is the only one of thouse titles that requires the gamepad. The other 2 they offer almost nothing and would be just better to use the pro controller or the wii motion pluss.



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Ultrashroomz said:
Ditching it now won't do anything at all at this point.

A deceant pricecut will still do wonders fo any console and ditching the gamepad will be the best way to achive it without any losses. This is specially true on the hollidays.



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Idk how Nintendo ever thought putting a screen on a controller was a good thing.  If you wanna see it you have to take your eyes off the tv.  In games like Splatton its way better for a shooter to just have a mini-map on the screen but Nintendo desperately needed the controller to be used for something so now if you wanna see the map you have to take you eyes off the action.  If saves 1 second for for a menu to load for item management in some games, a $100 controller to save a menu load or off-screen play...Sony said they tested having a screen on a controller for the PS4 and they saw the problem idk how Nintendo missed it.



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If this was 2013, maybe. But now it's a little late. Just ride it out and get it right with their next system.



The perfect time to ditch it was the very moment it was conceived.



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mZuzek said:
By now, it'll do more bad than good... especially more so considering Nintendo's 3 major games this year (Splatoon, Super Mario Maker and Star Fox Zero) all make good use of the Gamepad.


From what I've seen and played, only Mario Maker does. Not Splatoon, and definitely not the abomination. 



spemanig said:
mZuzek said:
By now, it'll do more bad than good... especially more so considering Nintendo's 3 major games this year (Splatoon, Super Mario Maker and Star Fox Zero) all make good use of the Gamepad.


From what I've seen and played, only Mario Maker does. Not Splatoon, and definitely not the abomination. 

You haven't played Splatoon.

It makes great use of the gamepad.