Perhaps it's because they use said money to put lots of time into games, instead of shitting them out after short development cycles as many devs do, that the lineup has been "weak" over the past two years?
I mean, Other M has been in development since 2006, they said in an interview. SMG2 would probably be 2007 or early 2008. Zelda Wii, since 2006 or 2007 or something, who knows.
Nintendo takes their time developing games, and doesn't rush them out for yearly releases like Activision or EA do - wasn't that much obvious by this point?







