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curl-6 on 16 July 2014
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spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

Retro's the only available team who've proven they are capable and have experience though.
They're also Nintendo's only Western first party team, which allows them to bring a more Western flavour that the Wii U's exclusive library is sorely lacking.


Who cares what they've proven? They hadn't proven anything when they first were given Metroid but four abandoned game prototypes. Still made an amazing game. Any other Nintendo studio would be in a better position than they were are the time. They may even make a better Metroid game.

Metroid is a japanese franchise. It doesn't need western developers to be good or appealing. And even if it did, Nintendo could just hire a western studio to make the game and have someone from Nintendo oversee the game's developement. It's basically what they did with Prime anyway, only that studio had nothing to show for but 4 failed and abandoned game prototypes.

Nintendo can no longer survive on colourful cartoon games alone.

They need to bring in new gamers from the PS/Xbox crowd to survive. Retro is ideally placed to provide these, and as a Western studio they can appeal more to the Western audience, which in today's market represents the lion's share of gamers.

You don't get your A-team to make a game that won't move hardware. Not if you've got any sense.