(Have some crow!) Nintendo showed incredible, hardcore, mature games and yet you complain about 3D Mario?

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noname2200 said:

F0X said:

Bear in mind that Retro was also assisting with Mario Kart 7's development during this time frame.

A small part of Retro was, yes, and only with a portion of that game's development. Moreover, pulling folks from one team to assist on other projects is common with Nintendo: I'd be surprised if some EAD Tokyo folks weren't chipping in on other stuff over the past two years as well.

There's an entire EAD Tokyo team dedicated to creating game engines (actually they are Nintendo's main engine dev team), so yeah.