Obviously Nintendo didn't say anything about their franchises, because they don't need to. As I've heard many times from someone whose opinion I respect, Parris from Uncle Gamer.
"Nintendo are just sitting on games at the moment. They don't need to bring anything else of quality out to assure sales, and this means they won't release any really good games until their consoles are in trouble. If Nintendo was in trouble, the DS selling less than the PSP or the Wii sales dropping, I guarantee we would see another Mario and Zelda game out, and maybe the announcement of Pikmin sometime soon."
I have to agree with everything that Parris says. Nintendo don't need to release games to drive their console, so they won't.