Yeah nintendo had to do this.this is probably the only major title for the first few months of the year for wii u and they need to build the hype for it because there will be allot of new wii u owners after christmas that they need to purchase this title. The last thing they can afford to let happen is to repeat last year and have a drought rite after the holidays and kill all there momentum. Donkey Kong has to carry the system untill mario kart or whatever is next gets a release date. Im totally convinced thats why they changed the release date in the first place.