Nintendo has to do something fast!!!

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DexInDaJungle said:

Dusk said:

Ruler said:
they should drop the gamepad and make the console cheaper without losing any money. The Wii U is not competitive with costing 280 bucks, people wouldnt mind buying WiiUs for 150 to 200 to play exclusive games along their core machines.

seriously, more "drop the gamepad" crap. It isn't going to happen. It's, unlike the kinect, directly implemented into the system and there are some games on the system that would be rendered unplayable without the gamepad. It is what it is. 

I'm not the most tech savvy person but exactly why is it not possible? For a moment lets forget arguments like inventory, losses and all that. Why is it impossible? Can't the Wii U just be patched to work without the Gamepad, similar to what they did with the Kinect. Can't they patch those few games that absolutely need it, to make them work without it? I understand it would require some work but why wouldn't that be possible?

It's not gonna happen at this point but I feel like this is something they should have considered before launching the console as well as a year into it, when it was already obvious sales were struggling. At this point, they might as well ride it out for another year or two, attempt to stay profitable and release the WiiU&Me or whatever they have up their sleeve.

It really depends on the game. Smash for example would have its create stage mode completly broken. And having to be reprogramed. Another game is to get the Pikmin 3 Map to work on the TV screen. Where they could of coped out, and had made the map textures at 480 res.