Kotaku has a particularly grouchy breed of commenters.
But as it is, we know these teams have to be working on something, for the mere fact that these teams haven't been disbanded. The issue is that we don't know what, part of Nintendo's maddening new strategy of secrecy, secrecy whose purpose seems to be to combat the negative side-effects of hype (that being, if they don't know what the game is, they can't harbor false expectations about the game, and if a development change is made, no backlash). The fact is that we know their top teams are doing something, but not what, and that, aside from their weak lineups in Q3/Q4 last year and Q1/Q2 this year, helps foster the idea of abandonment. There is one top-tier first-party game on the horizon, and it's a casual game: Wii Sports Resort. (Punch-Out!!'s status could be considered questionable by the "gaming media")
Sony escapes a similar fate by revealing these projects so far ahead. Sure, the only thing Sony's putting out in the near future is inFamous, but we know about the Q4 dynamo of Uncharted 2, and we know that God of War 3 and Gran Turismo 5 will land sometime before March next year, as will MAG. Knowledge of such titles keeps Sony out of the same problem Nintendo is in, where the future is constantly in doubt.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
