And where did you hear the contrary? I'm not making this up. Just browse on the web and you will find it. Retro handled both MP and MP2 ports, I doubt they were the ones handling the other projects. Plus there's been some things going on with Retro for example, some top members left because of rumoured troubles with Nintendo. It's logical, first they are used to handle ports, and now with the IGN rumour that said that the Zelda game they were working on was taken away from them, I doubt they are happy. But that's completely another subject.
Of course ports take up less time, but they do take time. And taking time away from talented devs to make ports is ridiculous. Where are the games from these teams? They have been busy making the ports and it's not a coincidence none of them has announced anything but the ports.
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Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
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