Shigeru Miyamoto wrote: We’ve been working on what we can do to increase our internal staff in a way that will allow us to have more projects going at the same time,” Miyamoto said, when I had asked him about why some franchises like Wave Race and F-Zero seem trapped in past generations. Miyamoto noted that an increase in size will allow Nintendo to not only create new games but watch over older IPs that fans clearly still want.
That's nice to know, I hope that soon we'll see some more games from Nintendo then! (hopefully some more on Wii U, it's kinda pointless having it as I mostly use it for Wii games anyway) I'd love to see a new Wave Race, really would mostly want a new Metroid and Kirby game right now though.