Nintendo holding back software!

[Grey Acumen]

I think it's good. Gives Nintendo time to refine these games, and to also get a properly accurate launch day sales. Just look at how Mario Galaxy did. I'm sure there are a lot of people who were holding back on getting a Wii system until a game like that came out, but the console was in such limited availability they weren't able to get either.
Personally, I don't believe a game can be judged by it's first week sales, but by how it's sales are about 6 weeks later. Still, I know people do judge games success on how well the first week goes. In many ways, this is important to the game manufacturer as well, due to the more immediate return on the investment they made. It's better to have that debt paid off in the first week and everything else be gravy than to have hope that it eventually will break even over the course of a few months.