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I don't know what to say. The WiiU must be bleeding money for Nintendo at this point in time. They had the console world in their hands (literally) with the Wiimote and simply gave it up for a tablet thingy that no one really seems to get, not even Nintendo 1st party. They really blew it.

I think it's possible for them to pull it back a bit though. Write off the first year1/2 as a dud a relaunch it at a cheaper price point with the Wiimote+nunchuck (MarioKart will survive without a dedicated horn button) maybe at $250 and have a controllerless SKU for $200-220 for people with spare wiimotes and nunchucks lying around from their Wii units. Lots of people really do want to play HD Nintendo games but the entry price has to be lowered and the tablet controller is a good sacrifice for this.