I see what they were going for with the Gamepad, but if that means staying a whole generation behind the competition AGAIN, ditch the thing, make it comparable to the PS4 and One on the hardware and sell at a competitive price.
Better advertising. The Kevin Butler/Dear PlayStation ads proved that good marketing can be a game changer. They should put some focus on the online capabilities of the system. If it was as powerful as PS4/One, but with free multiplayer, it could be a huge advantage for Nintendo.
MAKE A MORE POWERFUL CONSOLE.
Different name. Wii 2 would be good enough. Even Super Wii or SNES 2 would be much better names for crying out loud.
A. MORE. POWERFUL. CONSOLE. It baffles me that Nintendo thought it could be the weakest console again, with the weakest third-party support out of the three again, and replicate the Wii success, "Hey guys, we had the least powerful console on the 7th gen and still won that generation! Surely we'll win again if we do the same thing."
Also, making some kind of connectivity between the console and the 3DS could possibly help both systems. For example, I personally think the Vita will receive a slight boost in sales thanks to the PS4. And making a new IP (oh Nintendo please make a new IP) and bundling it with the system, like they did with NES/Super Mario Bros, could do wonders to promote the system and the brand new game.
tl;dr: Nintendo did the exact opposite of what they were supposed to do, and now the Wii U is really fucked up.
