Soundwave on 01 October 2013
It's not the end of the world. That said, it's painfully obvious everyone but EAD Tokyo over at Nintendo was not ready to start this generation at all. They seem to be the only studio for Nintendo that can be reliably banked on to give Nintendo a very high quality game in 2 years development time, everyone else seems to need 2 1/2-3 years in between projects.
My suspicion with DKR: TF is that Retro was actually working on something else after DKCR ... Nintendo didn't like the way the project was going or realized it would take too long to make and quickly shifted Retro to a quickie DKC sequel.
No way Retro is so incompetent that this is the best they can do in the 3 years since DKCR even if they did help out with Mario Kart 7.
