Forget sales, would you like Wii U as much without the Gamepad?

[S.Peelman]

Bristow9091 said:

I also wish you could turn the gamepad screen off, since I don't play any games where I benefit from using it, and games like Super Smash Bros. U that just show the same screen as what I'm already looking at on my monitor... it's VERY distracting!

You can.

Press the home-button, go to Controller Settings in the top-left (from the top of my head, could be top-right as well), then GamePad. There there's an option to switch off the screen. I agree it would be more convenient if the power button would bring you to an option like this, but there it is .