Does the lack of Wii U gamepad touchscreen abilities mean a lot in Tropical Freeze?

[sundin13]

Nintendo stated in their investor meeting that they haven't done as good of a job as they want at making the gamepad seem useful and will do a better job at this going forward...obviously its too late for games that are releasing soon (DKC and MK) but we will start seeing more games using it in the future, such as the heavily hinted NFC game that will likely be announced at E3

so no gamepad-less SKU any time soon