TallSilhouette on 15 January 2017
The difference between this and the 'Wii U without gamepad' scenario is that the dock should be quite cheap to manufacture and removing it would barely drop the price while eliminating its functionality as a home console. Let's not forget how much Nintendo is banking on this dual functionality and how integral it's supposed to be to the console's image, either; it's in the damn name ffs.
