Paper Mario, Mario Kart and Animal Crossing are not remakes.

Nintendo never ever sells hardware at or below cost. The strategy has never worked; the only way to encourage hardware adoption is good software, not pricing. Nintendo is exceptionally profitable and always has been, on hardware and software.

The remakes they do have are just like all the 'Something Something HD" makes on the XBLA and PSN and Wiimakes like RE4; to show off how much better the hardware features (3D) make a game of known good quality.

Animal Crossing, Mario Kart and Paper Mario aren't remakes.

Like Shonen said just look the screens.

Now  from thirds i'm not sure but i think Metal Gear Solid 3D is a remake, or port.

Generally remakes are handled by the same group that does the original, though i'll grant the only examples i can think of are Metroid Prime Trilogy which was more of a quick-and-dirty job, and Mario 64 DS, which was back in 2004, right when they restructured the whole company.

I am bringing this up because of this: "As a 1st party they are about 50% new/remake, when normally they are 100% new and only bring remakes, if at all far later into its life as classics or new play control, etc. ". No, I don't think you got called on it enough times.

New 3DS games by Nintendo:

Animal Crossing - in this entry in the series the player has the role of the mayor in his town.

Kid Icarus: Uprising

Mario Kart - new race tracks can be seen in the screenshots.

nintendogs cats

Paper Mario - new locations, plus allies.

PilotWings Resort

Steel Diver

3DS games that are remakes by Nintendo:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

Star Fox 64 3D

Out of 9 games, 7 are new games. Not exactly the 50% the OP was saying.

And another thing let me remind you what the DS' launch titles from Nintendo were:

America: Super Mario 64 DS

Japan: Daigasso! Band Brothers, Pokémon Dash, Polarium, Super Mario 64 DS, WarioWare: Touched!

Europe: Pokémon Dash, Polarium, Super Mario 64 DS, WarioWare: Touched!

GBA launch was loaded with ports/remakes.  Hell, Nintendo even announced some that didn't ever get released (Super Metroid, Yoshi Story) and showed tech demos of others (Zelda II).

Here was Nintendo's prelaunch GBA lineup by the time it was unveiled in late 2000... original titles first, ports/remakes after

• Mario Kart Advance (Super Circuit)
• F-Zero Advance (Maximum Velocity)
• Kuru Kuru Kururin 
• GameBoy Wars Advance (Advance Wars)
• Tactic Ogre Gaiden (Knights of Lodis)
• Fire Emblem Anko no Miko 
• Horseracing Creating Derby (canceled)
• Ougon no Taiyou (Golden Sun)
• Napoleon 
• Hanasaki Kasen (canceled)
• Magical Vacation 
• Wario Land 4

Nintendo handhelds are often launched with a remake:

GBC: SMB Deluxe

GBA: Super Mario Advance

DS: Super Mario 64 DS

Actually Mario 64 DS was done by EAD4, which used to be R&D2, so not really the same team that did Mario 64 way back.  They did all the Mario Advance games as well, and Mario DX on GBC.  They also did BS Zelda, Link's Awakening DX and ALTTP GBA.  

DK Jungle Beat being done by EAD Tokyo for both GC and Wii would count though imo.  Or (more dramatic) R&D1 doing both the original Metroid and Zero Mission.  Or even EAD doing Mario All-Stars.  And besides, it's already been confirmed Konno's team (EAD1) is doing SF64 3D and Aonuma's team (EAD3) is doing OOT 3D, so many of the same staff there.

GBC didn't launch with SMBD iirc.  It did launch with Tetris DX though.

Ahh, my mistake

good stuff,this could be one of the biggest handheld lauches ever.