Iwata (and Miyamoto) have been talking about the late stage announcements atleast since SMG came out. This doesn't mean they wouldn't make any exceptions. Keyword here is "having a strategy", not "we will not under any circumstances".
The idea of the strategy is to take advantage of competitors release dates. Like Nintendo did with Brawl and Mario Kart. Brawl for having nothing big coming for PS360 at the time of release and Mario Kart to counter GTA4. Even more if Nintendo has a number of games nearly ready, which can be finished in couple of months, when they can choose what to release on a short notice. Disaster could have been planned for christmas market, but Motion Plus could have caused a delay.
Ok, so does this mean "announced for release" or "announced being under developent"? Of course Nintendo could give some room for 3rd parties to fit in, by not releasing more games than the ones we know of, in a few months. There's also a possibility that Motion Plus have caused delays.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
