yes, the gamepads require more feed, more sync software, more input software, to run, it is already stated the fps will drop to 30 on both gamepads, and there are pro controllers, but the beloved wii controllers will still be used, and its not a wii 1.5 because of it, its just more additions to a console, any pixel counter here can tell you that the wii u is extremely impressive to run 720p 60fps perfect tablet to tv sync, and neat new graphics that are actually shown in your casual titles like pikmon3 or even mario u (what im going to call it), thats well enough to say its a wii 2.0 that has a greater than 2x power increase from previous consoles
to put that to comparison, a xbox360 starts using max resources at 720p and 30fps, and will generally not have any power left to produce anything but minor fogs and textures (which can be developed to look better like halo4, which is just a collaboration of single good character models in a prop filled enviroment), so that means the wii u will undoubtfully be near 2x better straight out of launch, think of how good things will be 4 years of tweaks from now
Edited by uh20, 18 June 2012 - 07:53 AM.