The gamepad is nice, it's only feels a generation too early due to the expenses of getting a limited handheld into the home console and lack of thoughtout ideas, they should have waited for the next handheld to implement miracast on it. In a handful of games it has been nicely used like NintendoLand/Game&Wario/HyruleWarriors, while in most other cases it's been off-tv which is a shame since the gamepad is tethered to your WiiU room. And things I like such as social browsing or netflix has been undercut by a computer and chromecast.
I've been using Gamepad and wiimotes for the last two years, so it's been my main classic controller. An evolved wiimote+wireless nunchuck that somehow attach for CC games would have been interesting (and of course still compatible with Wii's old controller).
