If they can extrapolate games out of commercials (Yo! Noid, Spot, Chester Cheetah) they can do it off a 30 minute Christmas special.
And lots and lots of that.
The problem is that it takes awhile to make very good games but little time to make the weak crap that most 3rd parties have made. It seems a lot of developers were taken by surprise by the Wii's success and most had their horses on the 360 or PS3 so most of them resorted to trying to make quick...
You weren't even born yet when Nintendo had a near tyrannical grip on what games came out on their systems. Back with the NES every company was given a certain amount of licenses to produce games for the NES. This was done to keep away the problems that led to the industry falling apart prior to...
I hope you guys aren't blowing off good games just because they don't fit some inane perception of what you consider good. I'm not telling you to like the cheap cash-ins that 3rd parties make because they are too lazy to make good games (I'm looking at you UbiSoft) but there are some games out...