Nintendo of America has become fairly conservative in the last few years in regards to the kinds of titles they choose to publish. Effectively they've chosen to pass on titles that would please the core gamers that do own Wii's. It's gotten to the point where Nintendo of Europe has surpassed Nintendo of America's publishing output, that's kind of dire.
Nintendo of America have passed on numerous titles that Nintendo of Japan developed and/or published: Xenoblade's release was greatly delayed and likely only came out after the prolonged fan campaign, The Last Story is finally coming out thanks to Xseed, whereas Disaster: Day of Crisis, Fatal Frame 4, Captain Rainbow, Another Code R, Pandora's Tower and a few others will likely not be released in North America. What's puzzling about all of this is a number of these games have been localised in English, in North America by Treehouse no less, for Europe. When you combine this fact with the sizable gaps in the Wii's release schedule late in its life, the decision to pass on these games makes even less sense. Nintendo of America has become incredibly risk averse, frequently passing on publishing titles that would please the core audience in North America. Nintendo of America has effectively limited the kinds of games that are published for the system in North America.
Then you look at what Nintendo of America choose to show in their E3 presentations and, more importantly, what they choose to omit, it's no surprise that people are indifferent or upset. I don't understand how Mr. Fils-Aime or anyone at NoA thinks watching someone play Wii Fit with their ass or spending far too much time demo'ing Nintendo Land is supposed to recapture the core. Why do things like omit Project P-100 from the presentation? Why save all of of the information from the latest Nintendo Direct for after E3? Why pass on publishing on publishing the core titles listed above?
Taking a slightly antagonistic stance with your customers and fans isn't the way to go about addressing the problem. Showing off the appropriate games at the appropriate events and actually publishing them will go a lot farther in addressing the problems people have with Nintendo in North America. But I guess just throwing up your hands in the air and saying there's nothing you can do is a whole lot easier and requires significantly less effort.
