Is Nintendo crazy? Why is the X1 almost the same price as the Wii U this holiday?

[EricFabian]

teigaga said:

The people who want Amiibo can buy the more pricey gamepad bundled wii U then :)

Bundle the gamepad with some amiibo's and a revelant game aswell. Its an expensive peripheral which isn't needed,  I say let gamers decide and benefit in the process with much higher hardware and software sales.  I get Nintendo pushing it at first similar to wii remote, trying to make sure developers use it but no one is really, nintendo included. The general public have already expressed they have no interest in it, all peripherals which are worth their weight will sell as a standalone purchase, so I don't see the problem.

Its strange but suddenly it seems blatantly obvious to me, its no different from forcing Kinect on people or forcing PSVita on PS4 owners.

Gamepad is not an acessory like kinect, is the controller of the system. People have to deal with it.