I really believe they pushed the Disaster realease after all the E3 complains... some months ago, i think the game was planned to be released in the first half of 2009...
But many fans were complaining about Nintendo's 1st party line-up for the end of the year, with only Wario Land, Animal Crossing and Wii Music... Disaster looked the perfect addition to please the more mature/core fanbase, as many very good third parties games (Mad World, the Conduit, Fragile, etc) will only be released in 2009...
Now, will they really try to promote it? I don't know... on the net, maybe, but i think that's it... that kind of game is not a multi million seller, Nintendo knows it, we all know it too, so i think they'll let the userbase decides, thanks to good or bad reviews...
I think Monolith is a great dev, but they mostly had experience in RPGs... an action/adventure game is way different, but i know Baten Kaitos looked superb, and so Disaster won't be a disaster that way... now it's all about gameplay, game's length, and originality...
Wait and see, but it's still on my radar, and if it's a 80+ game, it's one of the 4 or 5 Wii games i'll buy in the next 4 months, that's for sure...
"A beautiful drawing in 480i will stay beautiful forever...
and an ugly drawing in 1080p will stay ugly forever..."
