Now, don't go jinxing it :P

Wrong, maybe in the US. We just talked about this from the PAL perspective and suddenly everyone jumped in. Kirby is not February for PAL, why? If a game like this can't make it simultaneously, how many more will?

There have already been huge droughts this year.

I think Kirby will scrape into first half 2015 in Europe.

Basically we know they've been having some issues in Europe and laid off a bunch of people (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-08-30-nintendo-of-europe-lays-off-320-jobs) which clearly has impacted their localisation pipeline.

And remember how many languages/cultures NoE has to deal with compared to NoA.

That said, that Smash and Captain Toad both had their dates moved forward after they've been announced makes me think that NoE are prepared to hedge with a later date in order to avoid a delay, and then move the dates forward if the localisation and production pipelines make that a possibility.

Plus with the lower bandwidth on localisation prioritisation is much more important. Splatoon will want to release alongside the US, so the localisation efforts will be targeted there, with Kirby taking a back seat until Splatoon is completed (although not necessarily released). Same with Xenoblade X.

With that said, I think Kirby will scrape into the end of May/start of June. After being dated for a mid-June release.

To be fair, i went to the Nintendo webpage and consulted the NDs from late 2013.
There was one in December that covered the games coming out in the coming months: Donkey Kong TP, Mario Kart 8, Dr. Luigi, NES Remix and Hyrule Warriors was shown for the first time.
So, with the exception of HW, all the other titles did come out up yo January, with MK 8 being the one who got released last.

Come February and we got the ND that covered games coming out up to Spring.
Wii U got no new games, as expected but got a trailer for B2 that would come out 8 months later. Also, the trailer for Little Mac.

This last ND was about the games coming out this year and in the first months of the next year.
So, they showed Captain Toad (coming out in January in Europe), Kirby (coming out in the second semester in Europe) and Splatoon, releasing in the 2Q.
I'm not saying they got nothing else, but why show Splatoon, that is slated for 2Q - which really isn't the first months of 2015 - and not show a video for Mario Maker, Yoshi and Project Giant Robot? These games are 1st half like Splatoon, so why not show them aswell?

This is what i find concerning: if the games are in the final months of production they could surely release more footage.

I sincerely hope that the next ND reveals that all of them are still slated for 1st half, even if that means, releasing one per month starting March. Because if we get another bare 1st half like in 2013 and 2014, there's no way that they can get Wii U sales up to GC levels.

But they still want to focus attention on what people are going to be buying in the run up to the Holidays:

Smash, Captain Toad, Mario Kart, Amiibos, Pokémon

The other stuff is all due somewhere in the first of next year, but they don't want us to focus on it right now. They want us to focus on what we can buy this year.

I think there's a solid chance of a December direct that will detail in much more detail the spring calendar. And then we'll see dates for Yoshi, Kirby and Mario Maker. As well as details on local MP in Splatoon, maybe a new game reveal. In fact I'm prepared to predict it'll be 18th December that the next Direct airs.

^ I really hope you are right!

i really hope they can give us something about zelda u in next direct..

I don't think they'll show more of Zelda U until next E3.

And I don't think they'll do another Direct until next year, maybe Feb.

NoE has two more languages to worry about than NoA; they both share Spanish, French and English.

That's correct, the focus was the winter releases and their newest spring title. Apparently there is no PAL release for February.

They might do another multi-direct on January to cover the japanese release of Kirby plus the spring titles.