So, Splatoon moved more consoles than DK Tropical Freeze

[freebs2]

Pavolink said:

freebs2 said:

Ok, but why? Why the double standards? You agree long cycles are bad, so you agree (from what I understand) that the series is not mamaged at its best,  but don't you think another studio may be able to handle Zelda as well, while R&D3 could make new IPs (like Splatoon)?

Same goes for Wolly Yoshi, for example: the WiiU didn't need yet another 2D plaftormer, yet Goodfeel doesn't get any hate for creating one.

It's not double standard, it's expectations. Everybody was expecting something amazing from Retro, not another 2D. Goodfeel has been developed 2D since some years ago. For sure that people will be mad if Zelda team does a 2D DK rather than a new Zelda game.

But don't worry, Retro has gone in the irrelevance way. Nobody will be mad if they decide to do another 2D DK game because most won't care anymore.

So basically what you can expect from Goodfeel is just an average platform game with cute graphics. I guess yearly mediocre Mario Parties, yearly Mario Sports games, yearly Mario RPGs are also ok because those studios aren't able to make pretty much anything else. 

The problem I see here is from Nintendo and how they manage their own teams, not from Retro. You have so low expectations from many of thier japanese studios that Retro is supposed to make up for their incompetence and release the games they aren't able to make. But that's something a single studio can't realistically do atm. If Nintendo started to take on more ambitious projects with all their teams, you wouldn't have the problem to put Metroid, F-zero or new IP creation on hiatus.