I wish I could understand the rationale behind what they've been doing. Announcing games that are so early in development that they may not be out for years isn't a good practice *cough*Square*cough* but stealth announcing big games a couple months prior to launch doesn't give you nearly enough time to build awareness and most people assume, rightly or wrongly, that games announced this way are minor releases.
It's almost as if Nintendo thinks that their games are iDevices or something.
Nintendo has expressed some specific frustration at trying to organize their schedule to satisfy the demands of core gamers, who naturally want a lot of AAA software.
They've suffered a few big problems there before - announcing Twilight Princess way too early and resulting in it missing years' worth of possible release dates. Then spookily enough, the same thing happened to Skyward Sword though not as bad: announced rather early, delayed a couple of times (even if for a good reason), frustrating the audience.
Then there was the huge fistful of 3DS games they announced at 3DS reveal, to show overwhelming software support. But some of those games got delayed like Kid Icarus, and others delayed even further like Luigi's Mansion 2.
It seems they're now experimenting with only revealing games approximately 6 to 8 months before they're certain those games will be ready to go out the door.
Of course, to be fair to them, their fans can be a little... jumpy. See: Wii U revealed with NSMB U, resulting in rows of howling at this "horribly insultingly simplistic too dee game" being the Mario we'll get in HD unlike the Galaxy 3 we deserve.
As if there was any doubt at all that big budget 3D Mario game was already in development at EAD.
My problem is that I can't exactly say I'm unhappy with their current MO because this industry is drunk on hype and marketing campaigns, where games are advertised years in advance to begin building people up to a life changing experience. In my opinion, that just helps feed the development of the poisonous cynicism that grips hardcore geeks and gamers. Far too much weight and drama is put upon all this stuff, people simultaneously deriding the money and marketing. Yet being manipulated by its existence anyway, into an obsession with hanging on every turn. Leads to burnout; and there's plenty of people who show every sign of being unhappy, bitter burnouts... and about something as light and froofy as videya gaems.
I suppose there are just bigger problems than people being annoyed that Nintendo hasn't announced another game yet.