Negative employee reviews suggest Retro Studios could be in serious trouble

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JRPGfan said:

caffeinade said:

Nintendo can shut them down.
It doesn't matter how good the development team is, if Nintendo doesn't want it, or sees no value in keeping it afloat, they can just shut Retro Studios down.

It doesn't matter if Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was great, if Retro Studios cannot deliver the games Nintendo wants them to make, they are useless to Nintendo.
Retro Studios aren't independent, they don't get to decide their fate.

Nintendo can hire other studios to make Donkey Kong Country titles, if they want to.

They can.... but whos to say the quality in games would stay as high?
Would you want some random studio makeing DKC games?

Why the hell not? 20 years ago people would have said that no one but Rare should make a DKC game. Turns out it works perfectly ok without Rare. So I'm willing to give another Studio a chance.