| Figgycal said: The idea is: The system is being sold at a lost. The tablet is the main cause of this problem. The tablet is not selling the system. The system isn't selling well. All those statements are true. If we remove the tablet: The system is no longer being sold at a lost. The system is not selling well. ------ There's nothing left you can do for Wii U at this point aside from softening the damages a little. I never said to stop supporting it and move on to the next system ASAP. Rather they should ride out the system for a 5 or 6 year lifecycle and push hard at the causal market that WORKED for them with the Wii. The system won't sell on par with the Wii (its success was unique and can't be duplicated), but it would sell a hell of a lot better than the Wii U. At the worst it would sell as well as the gamecube. edit: Feel free to replace the word "tablet" with "gamepad". |
Great post. This is pretty much exactly my viewpoint as well.
If the Gamepad was flourishing with new ideas that required it or if it was moving the console, separating it would be the last thing you'd want to do. But as it is right now there would be a substantial benefit to offering a SKU without it. None of the big games coming up - not a single one - requires the GP in the way that, say, Nintendoland does. Not DKC, not Mario Kart, not Smash and most likely not Zelda U either. That doesn't mean it can't enhance those games; as I said before, playing Wind Waker with it is a dream, but the option would always be there for that.
It seems as though Ninty is not making it a priority, and if that's the case then there's no reason not to give people an option. This is why I don't understand the people that say, "Without the GP the WiiU isn't special and is just an underpowered console." I disagree. What makes it special and different from the competition is that it's the only place to play Nintendo's exclusive console games. And I really don't think that most potential WiiU owners mind the system's power... so long as the price is appropriate.
