Is Splatoon the system-defining game Wii U will be remembered for?

[Miyamotoo]

wombat123 said:

binary solo said:
Assuming the Wii U generation is rapidly coming to an end, I think Spaltoon will go down in history as the game of the generation for Wii U. Though ultimately it was unable to actually achieve anything beyond its own success since it didn't really break Nintendo out of it's own long held public image. It obviously wasn't intended to so that's not a criticism of the game, but if Nintendo thought the game had any kind of strategic role for Nintendo's home console aspirations they were badly mistaken. So if that was in the minds of the Nitendo execs then it is a criticism of them for continuing to mis-understand the broader gaming market outside of their own core fanbase.

The gamepad really doomed the Wii U because of its expensive manufacturing costs.  If Nintendo had just dropped it back before Maro Kart 8 came out, they could have probably lowered the console price by 100 dollars and unofficially be seen as the perfect secondary console for PS4/xbox one and PC owners. The fact that Splatoon is still selling well and is still garnering a lot of interest online shows to me that it might have saved the Wii U from an even worse fate sales-wise.

Nintendo couldn't dropped gamepad because they already had millions of manufactured gamepads. Also it would lower price of console for $100 because manufacture cost for games were $60-80 and you need to include cost of Wii U Pro controller that would come instead gamepad, no price could be around $50 less for Wii U without gamepad. Saying that lower price wouldn't change anything because Wii U had to many problems that only price cut could change that.