The Wii's 'remote' was deliberately designed to make the console more accessible. Non-gamers were still confused by games controllers, but the Wii's controller

The Wii's 'remote' was deliberately designed to make the console more accessible. Non-gamers were still confused by games controllers, but the Wii's controller looked a bit like a TV remote - something everyone could understand. If you extend the thinking to the WiiU then you see that because more people are familiar with tablets and touch screens these days, and in fact a huge number of gamers are now on tablet devices. Adding a tablet controller would surely make the WiiU more accessible to non-gamers. You can kind of see some sort of logic there, though it doesn't seem at all inspired or with any foresight. Remember too that both Sony and Microsoft are pushing their own second screen technologies very hard this generation.