Iwata said that they aren't releasing some of their games because they want to see when third parties are gonna release their games so they won't compete with them as much. This is good for third partys if any of them were releasing games AAA or even AA games right now but they aren't. None of the third partys are releasing any games in the near future worth getting. And we only have vauge promises of games by developers in the distant future.
It looks to me that third party devolpers are also waiting for to see if the 3ds will be worth developing for. And now that the 3ds isn't having the sales everyone expected they are not gonna jump onto what appears to be a sinking ship. Third parties are waiting to see who will "win" the handheld wars this gen before they invest too much into Nintendo. Which is what they did last gen.
Nintendo seems to believe that third party developers will stick by thier word and make games for the 3ds. Not everyone keeps their word and just because we saw demos at E3 doesn't mean they can't scrap the game at any time. Just look at how Capcom scraped the half completed RE2 when they thought it won't be any good. Or how we recently found out Star fox 2 was complete and Nintendo scraped that. So these verbal promises thrid party developers made to Nintendo to support the system doesn't mean anything at all.
So it's a catch 22 Nintendo is waiting for third party to release games before releasing their own games which causes 3ds sales to slow down. While third partys are waiting for 3ds sales to pick up before releasing their games.
Shouldn't this mean that nintendo should release one of their system sellers now like Zelda(not a glorifed port), Pokemon, Super mario, Mario Kart, or even star fox. Iwata said that they were releasing them this Fiscal year so are they gonna wait until it's too late for the 3ds to make a splash because if they do then the NGP will take over and that's where the third parties will go.
