Most studios are going to say "we mutually decided to part ways" anyway after ending a relationship. It's standard PR. You're not going to say "well Nintendo didn't want us anymore", that doesn't make your studio look good.
Nintendo is a billion dollar company, if they wanted to continue to work with those smaller publisher houses like Factor 5 or Silicon Knights, they could, if they wanted to replace them they easily could too. Rare could have been replaced too.
They don't want to.
If it's so hard to work with Western developers, why is it that Sony has no such problem?
I don't buy the counter-narrative that Nintendo lost most of their Western support basically by a "series of unfortunate unconnected events". The shift away from Western developers is corporate policy. I don't see any evidence in any of those links that there was any accident about it.
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