So Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Got Delayed...

[Mr Khan]

Soundwave said:

Mr Khan said:

Soundwave said:

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.

I disagree, in that i think that Tropical Freeze was meant to be a 2012 Wii game, and got the Super Paper Mario treatment (but unlike SPM and adding a quickie pointer gimmick, this required up-ressing the entire game, pushing it back a year)

Doubtful to me ... Nintendo knew the Wii U would be launching in 2012, why would they greenlight a DKC game for the dying Wii? 

I think Retro was working on something else, which has since been put on ice (at least for now) in favor of a quicker-to-develop DKC sequel. The reason it looks like a Wii game is because they basically just went back to the same engine and quickly started making a new game out of it. 

Why would Nintendo commission a Paper Mario sequel even though TTYD was (i think) a 2004 game? Pretty much the same timeframe.