Has Monolith surpassed Retro Studio as new Nintendo elite studio?

[MTZehvor]

curl-6 said:

MTZehvor said:

I certainly haven't met any of the "meh, Retro used to be great" crowd, so perhaps I'm a little biased there, but say Nintendo announces that Retro is working on an entirely new IP for NX (with no other details). I would bet money that there'd be roughly equivalent excitement to what there was back in 2011. The disappointment came from Tropical Freeze not being as ambitious as something like Metroid Prime. I don't think that anyone sincerely doubts Retro's ability to push the limits of the hardware (at least, I sincerely hope not), they just haven't chosen/been assigned a project to do so in a while.

That's what I mean though; people are now worried that they'll be disappointed yet again. Retro are not longer considered a studio that can do no wrong.

I'm not sure that being assigned a project that wasn't as ambitious makes people feel worse about Retro; if anything, it seemed to direct hatred towards Nintendo for overhyping a game that probably didn't deserve it. Releasing one less than amibitous game doesn't qualify as a major stain on a company, though; if it did, Monoloth would have been abandoned long ago. Rare as well, if you'll recall the collective "meh" response to DKC3 (ignoring what happened to them post Microsoft acquisition).