No

Yes,only if that means a price drop!Manufacturing cost of wii u is 180$,from which the 80$ is the manufacturing cost of the tablet!

If they can find a way to make a 50$ gamepad it would be good!Wii u would cost 269$ and that essentially isn't a price cut as you just revise a component of the console and making it cheaper,by this the manufacturing cost-console cost difference stays the same with the diffence of the previous...119$!

Consequently,you get the same profits despite having wii u by 30$ cheaper as you just cut the manufacturing cost by redesigning the tablet!

I forgot to say that this also would give a bigger room to nintendo for future price drops!:P

For example if ninty finally does what it did for gamecube ,i.e two consecutive price drops of -50$ -50$,that with a revised cheaper tablet would allow nintendo to go even lower than 199$ if it wants,to 169$(Killer price)...So -30$ by  making the tablet cheaper and still making the same money(as you just cut the manufacturing cost and by extend the price) along with two future price cuts of 50$ would be extremely benignant!

I highly doubt that we'll see price cuts that deep durring the Wii U's lifespan, it would really make people angry who bought it at the 350/300 price tag, myself included. Most of the people who have already bought a Wii U are Nintendo's core audience, and pissing off your core audience wouldn't be smart. I for one would be quite leerly of buying future Nintendo consoles if 3-4 years later they're going to be 50-60% cheeper, and by then with a much more robust library of games.

It would bost sales for a while if it's followed by a price drop, but in the end things would go back to where they are now.

WiiU has issues much more serious than price.

Nah, people care more about price than remodel.