Retro Studios - could it save the Wii U?

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McDonaldsGuy said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Why do people keeping on thinking Nintendo made them work on Donkey Kong? They developed TF cause they wanted to and Nintendo defended their decision to do so instead of Metroid or any other game...

Because publishers decide the game, not the developers. Unless it's a top tier developer like Naughty Dog but even then they don't get to choose the games they want.

DKCR sold over 6 million, so Nintendo thought that's what people wanted.

Of course YOU would go for developing a much more demanding project like Prime on a new console as your first project...

Guess what - the project managers and developers at Retro are much smarter than you. You have to master a console before you can get the most out of it. 

As Samus gets 30 next year we can expect that Retro is already applying the things learned from developing DKC:TF on the next Prime installment...