What are they doing at Retro?

[Aielyn]

I just had an epiphany (not an apostrophe, as Smee put it in Hook :P).

I saw someone suggest in my "which studio should Nintendo buy" thread that Nintendo should get Warren Spector to form a new studio and run it. That's not what Nintendo should do.

What Nintendo should do is get Warren Spector and David Adams (the main guy from Vigil Games) on board within Retro, and split the studio into two parts, like the way that EAD is split into teams. Warren Spector can run one side, David Adams the other, with Michael Kelbaugh (current head of Retro) remaining above both.

Retro can then work simultaneously on games like Metroid/Zelda/Darksiders under David Adams, and games like Donkey Kong Country Returns/Epic Mickey under Warren Spector. And, as with how EAD works, the teams would be fairly fluid, with members shifting from one side to the other.

Note that Retro, Junction Point Studios and Vigil Games all are/were based in Austin, Texas, making the transition particularly easy for them all.