| blaydcor said: What is Retro, a game studio or an ant colony? Seriously, it's not like every other Retro employee is some mindless drone who will just fall apart without their creative director. I'm sure they're all very intelligent, capable people; I'm equally sure that they will remain intelligent and capable.
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I'm telling you, the entire heart and soul of a dev house can in fact be one person.
Would we be calling Nintendo perfectly capable if Miyamoto one day up and left for another company? Of course not. We'd be panicking because we know Miyamoto is a goddamn genius and most of the best ideas Nintendo uses in its games still come from him.
Time will tell whether or Retro can handle the loss of these guys.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
