They want to provide games without "wasting" alot of money on the small userbase so its somewhat understandable to bring out 2D mario before 3D mario and 2D DK before Retro brings out a real 3D game.
Also it will just make the next retro game better because Retro already had some time to get used to the WiiU with DK.
Yes It is somewhat stupid and sad because the world clearly does not need MORE 2D platformers. (Most are boring because they lack the freshness of Mario powerups. And the world design even tho NSMB completely fails to recapture the SMB3/W feeling because it has super simple and boring level desgin with no exploration aspect...)
The biggest problem I see is that Wiiu had a lost year DK should have come out in april or may 2013 same with ZeldaWW HD.
Nintendo clearly needs more manpower because most of their teams obviously focused on 3DS with the bigger install base (which again is understandable)
