How can Nintendo drastically drop the cost of the WiiU?

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Well... If you are just talking about lowering the price, (sacrifice be damned) all you have to do is just get rid of the gamepad... If you get rid of that, then the wiiU does not require the gamepad or the super low latency streaming tech which probably will cut the cost of a console by at least $100 if not more. But the downside is that it will split the userbase and they would have to rework a lot of the settings and patch a lot of the games that are based around the gamepad or have gamepad functionality