| Viper1 said: The games take much more time to make now. That's not just an issue with Retro but all studios require more time or more personnel now. It's impossible to ask Retro to produce the same numer of games today that Rare did back in the day. Hell, Rare doesn't even do it themselves. Not even in the early GC days, not in the Xbox days and certainly not now in their X360 days. Also, those 4 other titles that Retro was working were canceled by Nintendo, not Retro. Nintendo put most of Retro's technical staff on the Metroid prime project which left very few to handle the technical hurdles for the other titles. Because they couldn't get the game engines up to par fast enough, Nintendo nixed those projects and put everyone on the Metroid Prime project. The comparison between the 2 studios is more metaphoric than literal.
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From what I remember that is partially true ...
Nintendo was very impressed with the artistic abilities of Retro Studios but was rather unimpressed with their technical staff. After cleaning house Retro only (really) had one complete technical team that could handle one project at a time.
