I can't help but feel banking on the tablet screen was not a good idea when almost everyone has a touch device already.
Yet despite this fact, some people keep saying the Wii U would be worthless without the gamepad.
It's time to see reality. The system is actually worthless with the gamepad. It's time to toss that thing out and sell it separately. All Nintendo needs to do is a small tweak to the OS to allow full control with the pro pad.
Nothing so far has justified the GamePad despite how neat it is to lay in your bed and play NSMB U or Black Ops 2, the closest they have got for me personally is the Luigi Mansion minigame in Nintendoland. Meanwhile the Wiimote was justified day 1, as Wii Sports became the hottest videogame perhaps since the original Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Nothing coming out looks to be making much use of it either.
In 2006, if you wanted to go with motion gaming (and people certainly did want just that) then the Wii was your only option, the only thing that reminded of it was the PS2 Eye Toy, which did not work aswell as the Wii did nor was able to achieve what the Wii was going for
In 2012-2013 you cannot walk into a electronic boutique without tripping over a dozen or so devices that have similar touch capabilities, and even better than the Wii U. It is actually difficult to find someone today in the civilized world without a smart phone, unless they are like 70 years old. If you want to play games in your bed, you can do so on a dozen or so devices today, its not a hook to sell your system on. In 2006, there was nothing like the Wii.
Its like they made the hardware first, and are now stuck with coming up with ideas how to use it. Whereas the idea of using the motion of your arms naturally opened up for new games, one look at the Wiimote and you could easily imagine tons of games that could use it.
