It actually looks quite slick in that image tbh I know others are against anything that isn't traditional but it looks quite graceful in that image if legit. The look is also closer to that of iPhones which would help in mass appeal.

Yeah. Take a Wii U gamepad. Now remove the buttons. So fresh, lol! 

This creates exactly zero new gameplay experiences, it's the Wii U tablet repackaged. 

IMO what this is is Nintendo really pivoting hard towards smartphone type gaming, I wouldn't be surprised if NX can run Android games. Nikkei reported this and they have been right several times before. Nintendo could offer Android games through their eShop and take a small cut of profit off each one and make good money (at least in theory). 

Uh no, even with it's many flaws, that has never been one of them, certainly not a "major" one. Unlike this ugly thing the gamepad actually has enough buttons to never need the touchscreen for additional inputs, and for both controllers you'd still have to look down for touch screen specific actions such as super jumping in Splatoon. Oh and you're still ignoring the inferior inputs and smaller screen, which are actual flaws, huge ones. Hell no am I playing Splatoon with nubs or Pokken without a D-pad.

You left out feedback sticks, rotating bumpers, the ability to change virtual buttons by game.  This will be a vastly different experience than moving from my 360 controller to my One.  I'm very curious.  Gamepad's way too big to be effective too.  I also like that it maintained the speakers from the gamepad, one of my favorite features it has.

you say it's not a flaw and then agree it's a flaw.  As it stands, the touch screen is mostly useless as an imput device because you have to switch your hand around.  This new NX pad allows you to use the analogue and touch screen at the same time.  Whether that's better than 4 buttons is debatable, but the lack of ability to do it with Wii U is not.

It's nothing like the gamepad going by patents it uses different tech and approach, each game will essentially have its own custom button layout, only similarities is that both have a screen.

This isn't a Wii type game changer. Yeah the analog stick is a little different. Fundamentally it's going to be the same types of games, what it does do is it does enable Nintendo to welcome smartphone app ports and I suspect that's the main reason for this design change. 

But basically this controller is Wii-U2. It looks to me like Nintendo was unable to come up with anything better. 

Actually that is the difference between innovation.  You do something people never ask for or thought of then execute it.  Without putting my hands on this controller or seeing exactly how it works, I nor anyone here can really determine if this is just bunk or off the change revolutionary.  Innovation and revolution need no market research, what it needs is people actually using and testing it to determine if it functions the way it was designed.

I've gotten used to aiming through gyroscope, and would hope it'd be a feature they continue.

Um wut, where did I agree that having to move your hand off the stick/buttons to use the touch screen is a major flaw? I mean seriously, that's been a thing since DS in 2005 and I've never once heard anyone complain about it. And just lol at the Gamepad not needing the touchscreen for inputs being a bad thing. It's the other way around, NX needs the touchscreen for inputs because it would not have enough otherwise. And there is no debate, virtual buttons are inferior to real buttons, nubs are inferior to sticks, not having a d-pad and triggers is inferior to having them.