This Kirby game looks like the same one announced for GameCube then again early on in the Wii's lifetime. I bet the game has been being worked on for years, probably a small 20-man team or something. Miyamoto confirmed Pikmin3 had a very small team working on it.
So we know Nintendo does get smaller teams to develop games. This game has been long in the works. Though I must say one year after Epic Yarn seems alittle short, it will definatly cut into Epic Yarns sales. Though Kirby was absent the entire GameCube generation with the exception of the racing game. So Kirby fans are defintaly getting the star treatment.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer







