| mZuzek said: According to Nintendo, it's being handled by a completely new team, so very much like the Prime 1 situation being Retro's first game. Whether they're any good or not remains to be seen, but this looks like an ambitious project, I doubt they'll do it wrong. As for Retro themselves, they're the ones I'm truly concerned about here. 3 and a half years seems like an awfully long time to make a game, let alone not even have one announced - I fear they might be no more. |
According to this site, Tropical Freeze sold very well (1.62 million), not super mega incredible, but very good numbers, especially considering Wii U's install base; so there's absolutely no way they don't exist anymore.
So I believe there are two possible scenarios:
1. The project they are working on is truly very ambitious and a new IP, so they can't show anything yet, and unlike Metroid or Pokemon, which are established franchises, Nintendo can't simple say "X new IP is in development". I mean of course they can do it, but it won't generate as much excitement as those other popular Nintendo IPs.
2. They have become a developer that helps in other projects, I think they have help Nintendo in some smaller titles (can't remember which ones though), which is a shame really if this is true.
The only other possibility I can think of (which I think is very farfetch) is that Retro is no longer a second party developer, and has become third party. I think that if this was the case we would have seen some information on it, but stuff like that I'm sure take time to make public.
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