Miyamoto: Retro Studios a very high priority for next Metroid game

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We all know Retro is now bigger than before, they even moved to a new, bigger building, so it's probably safe to assume that they have 2 teams. The "problem" is that if rumors are true, one of those teams is small and is in charge of creating a new engine.

Now, I don't know how credible those rumors are, but that could explain why they went with Donkey. They are basically using the same engine that the Wii game only beefing it up, waiting until the new engine is ready to do something bigger(*).

What could that game be? I don't know. A new Metroid, the Star Tropics game rumored prior to last E3, or something new. As long as it's a good and fun game I'll take it.

But what will the smaller team do once the engine is ready? Will they rejoin the main team? Will they be used to teach other Nintendo teams to use their engine? Or better than all that, why not using them to develop a classic 2D Metroid game for the eShop?

 

*bigger in terms of scale or gamer's/media attraction, not quality or sales wise.