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sethnintendo on 01 February 2013
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TomaTito said:

I agree with most of your points. And number 5 could be G&W or WPU.

TheLastStarFighter said:

3. Apps. Wii U is brilliantly equiped to offer i-thing like gaming. $5-$20 apps must be available on e-shop. Quick, pick-up-and-play games and apps. Maybe some that are free or $1-$2 as well. The viewer and Google street view are a good start. They need Angry Birds type games. Nintendo should have split up NintendoLand into 12 downloadable apps. Could have made a mint. With the touchpad they could do all kinds of innovative things, the kind of things that Nintendo's great software makers would make if they were making games for i-pads. The e-shop should be full of stuff. New themes or quick plays of classic titles. "New" Kid Icarus for example. "New" Ice Climbers. They could slap them together in a week or two and sell them for 5 bones. Perhaps offer a PS+ like subscription to get them all.

WiiU needs apps. Not games, but apps. They don't really need to follow the $1 downloadable games (they already have the 3DS eShop for that). The WiiU eShop should offer instead some premium downloadable or interesting indie games.

If they want to make it an "i-thing", they need to make it much more productive. I have family members that where turned off when they found that that the video conf. app wasn't Skype but their own proprietary one. These "useful" apps, like the Google Street, are easily implemented thanks to html5 coding they've been using. Where are the News and Weather apps? Obviously you could use the browser, but when implemented directly as web-apps they are only a click away.

A plus in making the Gamepad more productive, the device gets used more often and not only for gaming. Which means in more exposure to the WaraWara plaza - which is really Nintendo's ad space.

They had a News and Weather Channel on the Wii.  Not sure why it there aren't any on the Wii U.  Perhaps in future they will release one.  However, then you might have the same people bitching that it is a Nintendo channel and not Google Currents, Pulse News, etc..