Is Nintendo reaching a turning point?

[Goemar]

If us fans finally 'got it' we'd have a console Kirby game

http://kotaku.com/5393307/nintendo-annou...-wii-games
>Hoshi no Kirby(Temp.) 2009

a god damn 2D Metroid

http://kotaku.com/5393307/nintendo-annou...-wii-games
>METROI Other M(Temp.) TBA
Metroid Other M is not exactly a 2D Metroid but seems to feature a lot 2D gameplay on it.

We've been promised a console Kirby game since the cube, even seeing screen shots of it. Until the game is out a release date means nothing. And as cool as Other M looks it is 100% not the traditional 2D Metroid game fans are craving.

I know. When I saw Captain Falcon in Brawl with those design changes, I immediately thought that it would mean a new F-Zero game soon. Like Roy in Melee hinted the new Fire Emblem game, like the many Kirby Superstar references in Brawl prepared the people for the Kirby SuperStar Ultra remake for the DS, but it just didn't show up.
As well as that StarFox stage in Brawl was so polished up that it really looked like a hint to a new StarFox game.

But those just didn't come.
We have two or three Mario titles per year, but it has been years that we don't have mainstream games, or even games from some franchises. That really makes me sad.

Roy's was out before Melee I believe on the GBA, though only in Japan. You play as Roy's father in the first English Fire Emblem game (also on the GBA) and thus see Roy at the end of the game. Releasing the prequel (even if it was made after) to a game we never got does seem weird, but well communicating with English Mother fans about Mother 3 and then not bringing it out in English is also strange.

And yeah Metroid Dread... really? Is anyone even still hoping for news about this?