I am glad to see Nintendo's strategy of trying to take jabs at the competition working out very well for them.

Yeah, that's what I got from that, too. Reggie was throwing shade at Sony and TLG, which was officially announced at E3 2009 (six years ago). Which is pretty funny, really.

I haven't seen the original thread but I can picture a few Sony fans taking umbrage at the comment.

I still don't see the jab. The portion where he said something negative about Sony and The Last Guardian.

I thought it was hilarious as well. 

People are just misinterpreting his statement like they do every statement that comes from him, Miyamoto, or Iwata. It's easy to sensationalize things like that.

You say they "do nothing". Have you considered that maybe there's one already well into development, but not set for release until, at earliest, end of 2016? The point Reggie was making was that they're not going to announce something like this well in advance without good reason.

As for "most companies"... it's pretty obvious that Reggie is talking about certain specific companies, not all companies. Sony re-announced The Last Guardian, a game that was announced in 2009 (that's six years ago, for those counting), and set for release some time next year... but they're not certain it will actually release next year. It was an obvious and blatant shot at Sony. Representing this as Reggie "looking ignorant" is nothing more than a dishonest representation of what he's saying.

I see SEGA and I believe Nintendo could go into deeper trouble. I see Konami and I see a deeper bottom.

I think people are seeing things that aren't there: some seem to think it's a jab at The Last Guardian but I don't understand how.

For some reason this idea eludes many people. It's pretty obvious to me that the reason he said that with respect to Metroid is because they have a game in development that they don't want to announce too long before release. I guess reading between the lines is really hard or something.

I don't really see it either. Maybe if he had said two or three years instead of five or six people wouldn't take it as a jab. If anything I think it would be more likely to be a jab at Square-Enix, who really enjoys announcing games before they've gotten very far in development. He's just saying Nintendo prefers to have some kind of general release period in mind when they announce stuff, and a close one at that.

There's a lot of focusing on the exceptions rather than the rule. But Zelda! But Xenoblade! But SMTxFE! Okay, there were a handful, now how about the dozens of games Nintendo released this generation under a year after being announced? Anyone want to talk about Fire Emblem Fates being announced earlier this year and already being available in Japan?

Had he said something like "vs. what other companies do which is to announce a project that you may not see for five, six years. It’s just not the way we do things because we're professionals" then I would consider it a jab but he did not.