Anyway, I've said before that I see why they aren't bothering with releasing these. Given the Wii's position in the software market, I think these games would struggle to sell over 15k each, which is at worst a waste of money and at best a waste of time.
The problem is that it's become a bit of a snow ball. There's quite a few games now that NOJ published/funded/developed that NOA has totally ignored. When it was one or two games that no one really cared about it, it wasn't a big deal. But now it's 5-6 games, including some that people DO care about. It's reflecting poorly on the company, regardless of sales potential.
Now, that's not too big of a problem, because we're ultimately talking about a small group. But Nintendo's hardware sales are flagging and the casual market is getting more diluted thanks to Sony and Microsoft's incursion. Hence Nintendo trying to offer an olive branch to the hardcore crowd with the WiiU and it's better graphics and third-party support. This poses a two-fold problem: Nintendo, for the past several years, has developed very few games that the hardcore crowd has any interest in and NOA has refused to publish a number of titles that the hardcore gamers have some interest in.
Basically, Nintendo's own actions are exposing the hypocrisy of their olive branch. For all intents and purposes, they've gradually abandoned the hardcore crowd. Now that the casual crowd isn't throwing their money at Nintendo, Nintendo wants the hardcore crowd back and thinks that a halfhearted attempt will be enough. What they need to learn is what Microsoft had to learn: if you want the hardcore crowd in your back pocket, then you've got to spend a little money to gain their loyalty. Nintendo doesn't want to do that, or else hasn't learned that lesson.
Nintendo needs to spend some money, waste so money [if you want to call it that], by throwing the hardcore gamers a bone. Port over some Japanese games, develop some core-centric titles, give the hardcore crowd a reason to believe you're telling the truth about wanting them back.
But this is Nintendo, the company that still thinks this whole "online gaming" thing is just some fad that'll blow over in a year or two. Their idea of bringing the core crowd back revolves around a new iteration of Mario Kart and Zelda.
