Switchforce recently did a video, seen here. 

In it they had an interesting comment at the end, something like this

"The third parties think that too many 1st party Nintendo games would cannabalize sales, so Nintendo dispersed them"

Looking at the lineup we know of with March Zelda, April Mario Kart, Spring Arms, Summer Splatoon, and Holiday Mario that is dispersed. Even if we get a direct or something down the line that does a Planet Robobot/Twilight Princess HD on us (AKA announcing a game in a direct and releasing it without a E3, which I would not be surprised to see a few Wii U ports done that way. Heck with the Fire Emblem one on the 18th it could happen with Mirage Sessions), that still would leave the lineup open to that interpretation even if the lineup is still thicker than the Wii U's. 

Does that make sense? We always complain Nintendo should cater to the third parties, and this is one way to do that I suppose. See if the sales issue are truly the fault of the fans, or if they, the third parties, simply fail at their job. 

What do you think?

I think the games are dispersed is more due to the fact that they want to keep momentum going and to make the year look attractive.The appealing to third party is probably more of a bonus than Nintendo actively doing it

I long for the day when we can stop trying to twist everything to defend the console companies from criticism. Third-parties do not care about 1st parties. In fact they want the consoles, especially early on, to have as many 1st parties to drive console sales as possible. Nintendo simply did not have a good lineup ready they aren't spreading them out. This is even more sad considering they stopped pretty much all meaningful development for the Wii U over 2 years ago. Previous companies have developed up to the end of their previous console and still had as good or better launch windows. And third-parties, mostly western third-parties, aren't on Nintendo simply due to the combination of lack of power and not worth the investment. No other reason.

Well if the Nintendo games are dispersed to make room for third party titles, then........where are they?

It would make at least some sense if there were actually third party releases to be cannabalized. There just aren't that many in the first year.

Doesn't make any sense, Nintendo would be the one more worried about sales being eaten than third parties.

The whole idea of 3rd parties not releasing games on Nintendo consoles because they fear Nintendo's 1st party is just too convenient for the average forum nintendo fan tbh.

It's like we're working through the Five Stages of Grief.

This, 3DS & Wii U had good launches followed by long droughts with no meaningful titles.

3DS launched with Nintendogs & Pilotwings and in the following 6 months it had 2 N64 remakes.

Wii U launched with 2D Mario & Nintendo Land then went 9 months before another quality 1st party title released.

The plan is to not allow these big 1st party droughts to happen by having a steady flow of big 1st party titles.

Also this theory makes no sense, if it were true than there should be alot of 3rd party titles at launch.