A little off topic but I still think both the gamepad and miiverse were conceived around the same time. Nintendo wanted to do a gaming social network and the gamepad is a necessity to make it work, imagine trying to navigate around miiverse with a joypad or Wiimote it would be awful and clunky. Not to mention being unable to create wonderful drawings. A lot of people knock the gamepad but it is an integral part of arguably the Wii Us biggest success.....miiverse

With Sony and Move, I was like ugh.  When Sony market move as the Wii HD, I was like ugh.  With Vita as the Gamepad, I'm like ugh.  Why should Nintendo ditch the Gamepad when Sony wants to copy.

I hate to say it but I think Miiverse is sorta overrated. The art is fantastic of course, but I'd prefer if there was one channel for just viewing art creations or something (is there?) without all the other garbage.

The actual Miiverse boards themselves are full of inane "I like Mario!" and "Level 3 is super hard guys!" posts (gee thanks for that insighful commentary) or a bunch of players who can't pass the first 10 minutes of Super Metroid and need help. It's mostly crap posts.

I like the Nintendo Land lobby much more actually, that actually feels more like a community to me, walking around and seeing people online from all over the world and what not.

The biggest thing I like about the Wii U tablet is being able to turn on not only the console but my TV too and then switch back and forth between playing and watching something and being able to show friends Youtube videos on the television.

This sounds kinky but I always thought that if Nintendo ever decided to improve the Wii controller then it should be able to detect how hard you are squeezing it. Be great to choke/grab someone in that way in a video game. Being able to detect how many fingers are holding the controller would be interesting as well. You can hold the wii controller with only your middle and ring finger to shoot spider webs out in a spider man game. Or you can map special attacks with certain fingering styles. Playing an instrument in a zelda game would be more intuitive, too. Having the B button have a tiny knob sticking on top like a tiny second click-able controller would be cool too. And replacing the big A button with the DS4's click-able touch screen would be nice. I think the nun-chuck should just be another wii controller with the d-pad replaced with a controller stick.

To be fair, i have found some of the most intelligent and informative gamers ive ever seen whilst on Miiverse. I know there is a lot of kids on there too, but the real gamers (the ones i have interacted with) really know their shit and have a vast knowledge of not just Nintendo but the industry on a whole.

I would've liked to see either that approach, or something with much beefier specs at the $350 price point. Preferably something designed with ease of access for developers in mind. I'd love to see 3 consoles in the same relative ballpark performance-wise again, like in the PS2 era.

It doesn't really matter. Haters are still going to find something to critsize Nintendo about. Besides, I would rather the pad than wii mote. You can still use a wii mote. You have the best of both worlds.

I thought women are all about bigger the better.