A little off topic, but now that the Switch is coming out. Do you guys think Nintendo will lower the price of the WiiU? They can sell the WiiU for $150 with 3 pack in games or something. This can bite them on the ass because it'll eat sales from the Switch, although the Switch is very different compared to the WiiU and it was considered a "third pillar". Also, why didn't Nintendo ever cut the price of the WiiU or did they? I really enjoyed the WiiU and was really waiting for a WiiU 2.0 or HD or something, it has great games, no need to port all of it's library to the Switch just to make the Switch a success. Switch can still be success by itself with it being mobile and all. WiiU concept had so much potential, might it had better hardware people would have bought into it a lot more. Maybe i'm just nostalgic
And what the hell is gonna happen to my controllers? I have 4 WiiU pro controllers and 5 nunchuck/wii remotes. I hope the Switch is compatible with them. And also what's gonna happen to games that do utilize the gamepad in conjunction with the tv? There's really no way to port that concept to Switch. And what if some devs want to keep developing in that style? F$*k them? I don't know, all this killing the WiiU not sounding good to me.
I haven't seen Wii U's for sale in stores for a while now. I think they stopped restocking shelves for months now, I was actually a little surprised because I assumed this past Black Friday was going to be a big Wii U firesale, instead it was barren. I'd actually expect no price decreases for the console at this point, but you might be able to find Wii U games on clearance if retailers are still sitting on stock they want to clear out for the Switch Games. Even taking a look at Amazon, any of the "new" consoles have actually gone UP in price, but you might be able to get a WII U as low as $215 if you get a basic white which only has 8 GB of memory.
I think we've seen the death of dual screen play. Nintendo struggled to come up with a use case beyond putting menus/maps on the screen or Super Mario Maker, and it added another layer of complexity of 3rd parties or indies to consider when making a game.
Nintendo mentioned in a Kotaku article they had no plans of compatibility for prior console controllers/accessories, but left a caveat that they would consider it in the future. I'd expect it sometime after year 1, or specific cases like if they want to allow the gamecube controller adapter to work with the Switch for Smash players, but I expect I'll be having to pay for a pro controller if I want a more traditional controller for home at/near launch.