I've been saying for a long time that the gamepad will shrink and a cost reduced wii u will come out. I saw a child using the gamepad in store and it was just too large for the child and for a console aimed at a younger audience this is clearly not ideal. I'm not sure the chipset will shrink to 28nm. I think the wii u already runs cool enough with no reliability problems and 28nm is a more expensive process. I certainly expect fabrication to shrink in time but only when 28nm becomes cheap when a better fabrication process replaces it like 22nm.
It wouldn't surprise me if a wired gamepad became available or at least a gamepad with a wired option.
I think Nintendo are going to be forced to a very low price point for wii u and so the console will need to be cost reduced even further. Maybe even a top loader design?
I'd like to see the smaller gamepad charge on the main console as an option.
