So, thus far, nintendo has be doign a lot of colaborations with japanese developers, mostly with the well regarded ones, like kamya, harada, and etc. Anyway, if you see a pattern here, they never do only one game. Platinum did W101 and Bayonetta 2. Tecmo did Fatal frame V and Hyrule Warriors. Namco is doing pokken and project treasure. Vahhala is doing devils't third, and???

I know, i know, its a strech, but when you look at it, it seems nintendo make some kind of" make the game that you want, them make the game that we want you to make". The P-100 was a timid reveal at a random 30 sec at the E3 round up of upcoming U games that later became the the W101. Bayonetta 2 was announced alone as the big exclusive at a conference made mostly to announce exactilly that prior to the wiiu launch, altough some could argue that Bayonetta 2 didn't used the gamepad as much as W101.

With tecmo, its more like

-hey, do a fatal frame, will work really well with the game pad, even myamoto will come and help you!

-It will sell like shit, no point...

- we will lend you zelda franchise too so you can make a musou game with it

-DEAL!

With harada, was like:

-Harada-san, we need to try to make a free-to-play game on wiiu too, help us

-A WiiU free-to-play exclusive new IP game? Seriously? C'mom, i need to make a living out of gaming, you know?

-You can also make a pokemon figthing game, if you wa-

-DEAL!

Days latter on vahalla studios:

-Itagaki we need you to make the ?????????? exclusive for wiiu

-Erhm, not so sure,  a pretty big investment on this, and exclusive for wiiu...

-... we will fund this game that you are still trying to make

-DEAL!

For me, this is the only explanation for nintendo to fund a game that they never talked about, ever! Even on the "reveal, its ahppened on ign". Even during that short sesssion on nintendo trheehouse, they put it on the last segment and only showed it for like10 min, most of the time they only showed slides. Still think that there is more to it. Even with suda nintendo didn't made only one game. There is more to it, l can feel it. Dunno how long it will take to reveal,  but i think this year yet, we will see it.

Lol, I like your narrative, but I don't think so...

Devil's Third is in development for quite some time and it seems that it will be released in 2016 so if there is another game, it would be 2017 at the earliest and I'm guessing that the Wii U would be slowing down by then

That, or Nintendo know that the Wii U is desperate for games.

In a bizarre way, that makes sense. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if they donated one of their IPs to them for a spinoff or something to help offset the cost if Devil's Third underperforms. But at the same time, I could just as easily see that not being the case.

I'm on board! Who knows what he could do with some Nintendo IPs.

That would be awesome. Captain Falcon going through the streets of Mute City hackin' and slashin' his way like Ryu Hayabusa hahahaha. For real, F-Zero has so much characters and a charismatic world, it's a shame that it never got a spin off.

I like the theory.

It's also worth remembering that Nintendo will be resourcing for the NX launch now, either moving teams onto production or sourcing exclusives for the launch.

So, I think it's perfectly plausible that Itagaki is working on something else for Nintendo, but it may not necessarily be for Wii U.

I'd also expect that some of the devs who have helped support the Wii U will also be getting talked to about getting titles in the pipeline for NX. Especially people like Platinum and Tecmo. (I'd almost be prepared to bet on Bayonetta 3 being targeted for a launch window title - almost)

didnt nintendo buy those guys because they were broke or something like this?

he said the game is finished and just waiting a release date, expect christmas/fall release date.

No, they just bought the IP when THQ went under.

I highly doubt Itagaki is making another WiiU game. He just doesnt seem like the Nintendo type.