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Pillow said:
All that Nintendo has to do is release a crazy innovative title using the gamepad implementation and market it like crazy: something fun and easy to pickup and play, it must stay simple and straightforward in its core gameplay. At the moment, people don't see the use for the gamepad like the Wii remote was for the original Wii. 


Problem being, that the tablet gamepad concept fundamentally isn't useful, if you're glancing down at the tablet controller screen, you can just as easily roll your controller forward or back with Sony's 6axis and have the game pause/switch to overlay mode on TV screen with the same info. Except Wii U is gimping itself because it is wasting it's own CPU/GPU power by displaying that info ALL THE TIME, not just when you want that info.

And then Nintendo is further gimping itself if it wants devs to create fun games, because the console architecture is way more of a headache to program for than either PS4 or Xbone, and even if the devs play along the result will be less than what even a bad effort at those consoles could achieve. Plenty of the 'lite' gaming crowd has moved to Apple or Android devices, and devs find those markets more profitable to make cool funky games for.

If it's not offering a fundentally better experience, then why bother paying the special entrance fee (console) to play Nintendo's games?

Only religious Nintendo fanatics would bother to.  So... maybe they should incorporate as a church for tax benefits?