metroidking on 13 October 2012
| NightDragon83 said: Thank God Miyamoto is finally taking on a smaller role at Nintendo. While his accomplishments over the pas 25 years are undeniable, over the past decade or so I feel at times his presence has been a hindrance to game development... for example his meddling in Rare's Dinosaur Planet which turned the game into the half-assed Starfox Adventures a couple years later, and making one of the premiere titles of 2008 for the Wii the God-awful Wii Music. Seems like good moves all around... now how about picking up another Western developer or two to complement Retro, who's software output has been pretty lacking. 4 games over more than 10 years? That's pretty weak right there... even companies like Rockstar, Valve and Epic who are notorious for lengthy development cycles between games have a higher output than that. |
Miyamoto was behind the Wii Series which has been ridiculously successful and is the third best selling franchise ever now behind Mario & Pokemon. So Miyamoto has still got it.
And the reason it takes Retro ages to put out a game is they are only a small studio 80 at max I think and are not as large as Rockstar, Valve or even Epic.
