If a Nintendo game is under the eye of Miyamoto it will never happen. He's a gardener, not a gore or grief seeker.
Also, to ask why Nintendo themselves aren't making games like TLOU or anything more high-minded and intellectually challenging would suggest they even could make something that impressively deep. I honestly doubt that they can (their most "serious" writing is the Zelda series - 'nuff said), and they haven't invested one bit into the latest motion-capture facial techniques like Naughty Dog, EA or Ubisoft have for their AAA games (remember, Nintendo is just figuring out how to do HD guys).
On one hand you can't blame them - Nintendo games with Mario, Princess and Toad never required any of that technology. Nintendo (just like most studios) are glued to what they know and what works. However, this still doesn't mean the TC's question isn't worth asking, because you see astonishing literary and cinematic departures all the time in works of respected authors and auteurs. A certain stretching, versatility and clear arc of "artistic growth" in their body of work actually earns more admiration (such as Naughty Dog). A creator's abandonment of old, familiar subjects can sometimes be an exhilarating mark of maturity in itself.
But this won't happen at Nintendo EAD. Either Nintendo doesn't have the necessary story/writing staff to really go to those unexplored places, or they are locked in to a safer, commercial zone of production (as I said, understandable given that's what most studios do all the time).
And I don't think the TC is asking for non-stop gore or mindless gameplay just so that Nintendo could mark a box off of their To-Do checklist. He is probably asking for a good, excellently-written Mature game without the shallow excesses we could get from countless other games. That's harder to achieve for any studio and I assume the TC is asking this question because he feels that Nintendo should be different from the pack and already starting from a higher mode of production.
Oh, I'm sure many studios and Nintendo secretly want that wonderful, brilliantly-lit adoration of the media and industry (*smooch smooch*) for delivering a beautiful 10/10 GOTY - a transcendentally mature and intelligent work of art ("b-b-bu-but how did you do it? Where did this genius come from?"). A video game that pushes - no - smashes the bar of storytelling up into the noses of doubters and industry complacency, and even has TIME magazine, CNN and The New Yorker doing ecstatic and feverish stories on this new masterpiece that has managed to change our perceptions of the medium we (thought) we knew so well. Oh, to shock, deliver, instruct AND enter the history books in one sublime gesture. That would be a good feeling. Untouchable.
It's so easy to recline all day in the glowing fantasies of such rewards, but it's another thing to have it actually happen through real work. I'm not looking to Nintendo to be the one to push those storytelling boundaries anyways. They have their own set of pressing concerns now (that system I love to laugh at being one of their burdens), and Nintendo isn't going to produce a serious AAA game with expensive motion-capture acting and sensitive portraits of the human psyche - they lack the experience in that area and the risk-reward gamble for venturing in this direction is far too high.
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