I love the gamepad.... I really do. I'm so used to off screen play that I've even thought about getting the Nvidia Shield. That said..... Nintendo dropped the ball. If they had packaged the system with a next-gen wiimote and no gamepad they could have sold the system for 50-100 bucks cheaper and probably still upped the specs to at least be able to handle Xbone ports. They could have also sold the gamepad with Nintendo Land as an add on down the road, and it would probably have given the system a nice boost (like the balance board.)
That said... I still think Nintendo will drop the price 50 bucks come November.... we'll see though.







