How will 1st/3rd party devs compensate for the lackluster E3

[MaxwellGT2000]

Well you may very well be right as right after Twilight Princess came out Miyamoto said he was going to change the whole structure of Zelda, so it's not going to be the normal weapons or the 3 dungeons, master sword, 6-8 more dungeons then final boss. So they might have saved it till E3 09 and release in 09 because it should surprise a lot of folks, whatever Miyamoto has in store should be very exciting.

I mean Kid Icarus seems like a no brainier Q1 or Q2 release, a lot like how MK Wii was just sprung on everyone early 08 and was out in Q2, I'm thinking when January hits we'll get a lot of info on it then it's going to be out by May 09.

I think Nintendo may give a little more news regarding Pikmin 3 and maybe a few snips or words on Disaster Day of Crisis, Zelda, and maybe something they've yet to reveal as they really seem like they want to make up for E3.

Honestly I think it would probably renew a lot of faith (if you go with Soriku's theory about KH3) and at TGS KH3 was revealed for Wii, while that is a casual friendly title many core players love it and would totally forget about E3 if that were to happen. (TGS is where almost all big KH news is revealed so I got my fingers crossed)