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dam4rus on 27 December 2014
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Yakuzaice said:
dam4rus said:

Yes and waste man power on updating old games just to run on a newer system and make the OS run on 2 branch... As a software developer i tell you, it wouldn't work and would be a big waste of manpower and money. Also, you can't force third party developer to update their games to make it work without the GamePad... The GamePad will stay until the next hardware is released, deal with it. They should focus on making the GamePad a better value instead.

They released a Wii with no online capability.  So all eshop/VC games were inaccessible, and any games with online had those features unavailable.  I don't think it is beyond them to break functionality in games with new hardware.  Presumably they would start selling the gamepad standalone, which is more of a workaround than the Wii Mini has (as far as I know).

The OS is already mostly useable without the touchscreen.  Going between system settings, Wii U Menu, daily log, etc is still really slow, so the OS could probably use a major overhaul either way.

With all that said, I doubt they remove the gamepad at this point.  Especially with Amiibo, they wouldn't want to add an extra barrier to entry for that.

Wasn't the Wii Mini released after the Wii was dead anyway? How many people brought it?... Maybe 10? Yet, the Wii U is still a new system. There IS still confusion about the Wii U being a tablet controller for Wii, i don't think we need to complicate things ever further by saying to customers that you require an accessory to play most of it's game. The GamePad is fine and dropping it wouldn't help sales either way. Also, i don't think it's so expensive to produce as people say it is. It's basically a wireless controller with a low-res resistive single touch screen attached to it. It uses decade old technology...

As you said, Amiibo is a pretty huge success for Nintendo, so getting rid of the GamePad would make them totally useless. They would be reduced to overpriced action figures no one would buy.