Has Monolith surpassed Retro Studio as new Nintendo elite studio?

[MTZehvor]

curl-6 said:

MTZehvor said:

curl-6 said:

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).

I wouldn't call it so much of a stain on their record, more that it has diminished people's excitement for their future projects because there's no longer the assurance that whatever they do will push boundaries.

Well, let's be fair, then. If this is your line of thinking, Retro's reputation hasn't been "damaged considerably." All that's happened is they garner less excitement due to the assignments presented to them by Nintendo.

Again, though, I'd argue this is wrong. There simply isn't much excitement at the moment because we hardly know anything about the next project. If Nintendo were to say that Retro was working on "something" for NX, with no further details, I'd bet money people would still be extremely excited.

With that said, this is a debate with extremely little substance; there's no real way to prove any of this other than wait and see, I suppose.