People need to STOP asking for a Wii U with no Gamepad

[NightDragon83]

mZuzek said:

NightDragon83 said:

If the Wii U was selling for $199 with the Pro controller as the standard controller, it would be selling like hotcakes and 3rd parties would actually have an incentive to release games on it.

Yeah, just like the Gamecube.

Apples to oranges... GC was technically on par with the more expensive PS2 and Xbox but they were both dropped to $199 mere months after the GC launched so it lost any price advantage it had, and in the PS2's case it had a much better library of exclusives.

The Wii sold like hotcakes despite being underpowered because it was much cheaper than the competitors and had a handful of games that the casuals cared about like Wii Sports, Mario Kart, and Smash... the Wii U has a similar library, but is more expensive than the Wii was, and the motion control gimmick is no longer en vogue with the casuals.

The tablet controller never caught on either, much like Kinect 2.0 for the X1.  The difference is M$ eventually realized the Kinect was dead weight on sales, and as soon as they unbundled it and dropped the price to match the PS4 sales increased.  Meanwhile 2 years later the Wii U is still at the same base price it was when it launched, only now with a pack-in game for free.  This is because, and only because, of the expensive tablet controller that is not necessary for the vast majority of the games on the console.