Making full use of the NFC functionality built into the Wii U GamePad is one of four strategies designed to boost the console’s flagging sales in the year ahead, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed — and plans call for NFC to be used to enhance game playing and for payments.

“Our top priority this year is to offer software titles that are made possible because of the GamePad,” Iwata explained in the company’s third quarter financial results briefing: