Price drop should be mandatory but the GamePad is not one of the problems, heck it might be their best shot at a solution.
The Wii U's current controller model is a somewhat confusing mishmash of Nintendo trying to appeal to everyone and those that bough their previous Wii remotes rather then committing to any one style of play. This is really obvious in the way 1st party multiplayer games are structured and if they could manage to get at least 2 Gamepad's running on one Wii U, they would open the system up to much more interesting multiplayer options then they have now and firmly commits the system in a way that the Wiimote did to make it a truly unique console.
So if anything, they need more of the Gamepad to compete like the Wii did against the stronger consoles.







