From business perspective, it's a terrible controller - not only it's expensive, it did not bring kind of experience that Wiimote managed to do with wider audience, and Nintendo put all their eggs into that basket.
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Only problem the gamepad ever really caused was its costs in materials to the overall console. But even that is a bad argument. Had WiiU not contained a gamepad and instead had beefier specs, it would still have cost about the same.
Meaning, we'd still have a $300 console that is being sold at a loss with no 3rd party support or sales. It still wouldn't appeal to the MSony crowd that only see Nintendo as a kid company and it wouldn't be in the price range or feature/game aspect to hit the casual group again like Wii.
Lack of 3rd party support for WiiU is combination of specs and user base problem (as said by certain developers themselves). Remove one of them (let's go with 1/2x PS4 specs instead of Gamepad) and SuperWii would have much better support.
Would it matter? I believe yes, nothing could be worse than current state of WiiU sales.
DISCLAIMER: I fully expect usual WiiU apologists/3rd party conspiracy proponents (they know who they are) to jump on this one...well, don't bother, I won't be answering to you.
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