| misteromar mk4 said: Bad move for Retro, They may suffer the curse of second parties that leave the big N, look at Rare, Silicon Knights, Factor 5 etc. |
About the "Nintendo curse"...
Rare started losing key staff members years before Microsoft bought them. So it's not because of leaving Nintendo that they stumbled and have only recently managed to start to hit their stride again, the problems were already brewing.
As for Silicon Knights, development on Too Human was happening even when they were still very close to Nintendo, and the jury is still out on that one anyways. Even if it doesn't live up to their past games it can hardly be blamed on developing on another console.
Factor 5 was simply a company trying something different that backfired. There have been companies that had the same thing happen that were never involved with Nintendo so it's kind of hard to lay that one on making games for other consoles. I mean look at Core and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. They stumbled pretty badly on that one and had they released their earlier games exclusives on Nintendo consoles it would have been chalked up to the "curse" as well.
