Because I'm sure you work for free & live of thin air...

I don't see many PS4 &X1 owners bitchin' about having to pay 50$/year to play online, that is an unprecendented rip off! Hidden costs are more telling about how Sony & MS see their customers, more than dude/bro buddy PR they feed us... 4 the gamers... yeh of course... tell me some more bedtime stories!

They make the most money from their own developed games most of the time (N64, Gamecube, WiiU). Perhaps Wii as well since they sold so much Mario Kart, Wii Fit, etc. games.

Current problem on WiiU is that the userbase is so low that even their best selling games only give them a decent profit, instead of a great one.
If you know that the library of a typical WiiU owner is consisting of over 50% of Nintendo developed (or at least published) titles, then they should pursue a higher userbase.

Obviously they shouldn't cut the price in half or whatever, but a slight price cut along with some added value by including a game or heck even a small third party hard drive should do the trick. The holiday season is only once a year, but they don't really offer enough to make people go out and buy their console.

your logic is flawed, the gamepad is not essential to play the games

I disagree with you, while A gamepad is not essential or mandatory to play console games, in this case: the WiiU, the large majority of the games use it in a mandatory way.

You would have to rewrite & retool the code of all the games existing, patch them, redo the console OS, drop a unique, differentiating way of playing for what, maybe a few thousand sales? All the games would have to be retooled, you certainly can see how it doesn't make sense at all.

If you simply remove the gamepad on the WiiU, the console does not work, hence my car engine comparison. To make the WiiU work without the Pad would take enormous amount of time, money for an hazardous outcome.

It takes at least between 1 & 2 years to make a game, so games without the gamepad would start releasing in 2 years, near the end of the WiiU life cycle, can't see that happening or anyone interested in dropping money on such an hazardous venture. I'm sure you can agree with that?

Cheers

I'm all for a price drop, I like to spend money as much as the next guy & I agree that a price drop helps the sales. I'm sure Nintendo is thinking about it, they have been in this business for quite a long so let's trust them a bit don't you think?

Two games that have been with the Wii U from the get-go absolutely require it: Nintendoland and Zombi U.

You could've just said, "3DS." and that post would've been refuted with one word.

There are no Wii U BF sales.  Thats what he is saying.  It's still $299 with the same O bundle from earler this year.  They could at least thrown in an additional game.

http://wiiudaily.com/wii-u-black-friday-deals/

Yeah but the topic was mainly home consoles not handhelds... and the original GB was the same price as when it launched ($89.99) for a looong time before it received its first official price drop, which was sometime in the mid 90s, I believe when the redesigned "Play It Loud" series was released.

Besides, on a website called VGChartz... charts and graphs are always better!  :)