i think you'd see more complaining that metroid was on the wii u and how nintendo doesn't make any new franchises and how no one's going to buy a wii u for one game. nintendo's trying to make a different console than microsoft or sony and right now, it seems the way they're doing that is making one that's family friendly. hard to tell if it'll work outside the holidays, but it's at least a more solid direction than their attempt to grab their vision of hardcore gamers a year ago.
Problem is Iwata recently said 2014 is their going after the hardcore gamer again year. This year is their family year. Nintendo needs to learn to go after the total audience all at once not these year to year seat of our pants strats.
How much lols and hysterical criticism would Nintendo have gotten if they decided to not bother with the event at all like the spike awards? Instead of skipping it entirely the company made a decision to bring something light. There was no grandiose hype supplied from anyone at Nintendo. I always got the feeling that skipping the TV event wasn't a big deal at all for most. This thing has all of a sudden become such a big thing for some of you?
No one would have said anything because for over a decade Nintendo has totally ignored them. Now finally deciding after a decade to show up you would hope they would have something special planned