With the 3DS, Nintendo finally listened to all the third party companies (ex. EA) who always kept complaining it was impossible to get Nintendo-like sales if Nintendo kept releasing their big hits all the time.
So with the 3DS, Nintendo ended up using their lower tier or N64 games to help show off the 3D effects and instead third party companies flopped badly either producing shit (ex. EA's half-ass Madden 3D) or decided to delay/cancel games.
Wii made some sense because Nintendo went all out in 2010 and then used 2011 to clean up the project schedule so they can start on the Wii U launch games. It didn't help that third party companies also abandoned the system once 2011 occurred and nobody wanted to compete with Nintendo for the Fall because of the new Zelda game launching in that period.
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