Next Level games quick climb up Nintendo ranks is quite surprising

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menx64 said:

 If I am not mistaken (and I do often ;P) Nintendo cancelled all retro games once Miyamoto visited their studio. Even raven blade was cancelled. I remember reading in a Iwata ask, that they had to talk to Nintendo almost every other day on how things were developing (which is common to Nintendo, I believe).

 But yes, Retro has a lot of talent, Nintendo's help only makes it better.

Nintendo didn't cancel them Retro themselves did out of embarassment when they saw what their fellow first party were doing, they literally burned anything they had at the time and started over, that's when Miyamoto took over to produce Metroid Prime.