Its time to lose the gamepad

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DevilRising said:
No offense, OP, but about 500 of these exact type of threads have been made, almost literally since the launch of the damn thing in 2012.

The controller has never been the problem. It was NoA's shitty marketing. That's been discussed ad naseum in countless threads.

At this point, Wii U is what it is. It's not gonna "catch up" to PS4, so there's no point in worrying about it. Enjoy the good games it does get, and move on. If Nintendo wants to spur sales, then they need to drop the damn price THIS holiday season, have some new bundles ready, and advertise the fuck out of the thing.

And even then, it's not ever gonna catch up to PS4. So I say, oh well.

PS4? Lol. At this point catching up to PSVita seems like a pipe dream.

@OP - No. It would be utterly stupid at this point. Just ride it out, don't invest a single dime in it, don't waste any money, make the amount you know you're gonna sell at a profit, release the NX, stop the Wii U production asap and move on. If anything, update the gamepad so it uses more modern and cheaper parts and sell it as an alternative NX controller that allows Wii U BC and off-tv play of NX games. This way if NX becomes a success, they may actually earn something on the GamePad.