What are they doing at Retro?

[Jumpin]

chris_wing said:

DieAppleDie said:

Jumpin said:

DieAppleDie said:

Jumpin said:
Surprised Retro studios is still around, they only managed 2 games in 9 years.


What?
MP 2 Echoes 2004
MP 3 Corruption 2007
DKC Returns 2010
New game 2013

that would make 4 games in 9 years

2004 was 9 years ago, so Metroid Prime 2 doesn't count. They haven't released any new game this year, so that makes just 2 games.

Retro is quite possibly the second most overrated studio that has ever existed. Only Lionhead is more overrated.

as you like...

Those 9 years represent the ramp up after a games release & the ramp up to a games release.  In the next six months if there is a surprise announcement & lauch then you could say they released 4 new games, a compilation including two new ports and contributed to 2 portable games in 10 years.  Suddenly that doesn't look nearly as bad.

If we're looking at 10 years, 3 games and a port is still almost equally as dismal. I am not sure where this mysterious fourth game is coming in, there haven't been any new Retro developed games announced in years. There's not really a guarantee that they'll even announce anything this year, let alone release anything this year (and that would be completely consistent with what we have received from Retro most years they have existed as a studio). At the rate they develop games, it'll probably be 2014 or 2015 before we see any new game from Retro. Consider that it took them over three and a half years to develop a 2D platformer on the Wii; and now they're working with a more complex console that requires more dev time.