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You do realize that not every developer builds a flexible game engine that can easily adapted for different kinds of games?  You also do realize that engines like that must be developed from the ground up with that concept in mind right?

Silly me, of course you do.  Your real question was probably "Why didn't Nintendo build an engine they could sell?"  And that, of course, is a question for Nintendo.