Nintendo changed the culture at Retro Studios

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Medisti said:

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For those who aren't aware of the story of Retro's early years I highly recommend reading up on it, it's a real rollercoaster.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/12/18/a-retrospective-the-story-of-retro-studios

Sadly, things have clearly gone to shit again as they've now gone 7 and a half years without releasing a new game. Perhaps someday we'll find out the story of how it all fell apart after Tropical Freeze.

Their own project they were working on before taking on Prime 4 clearly fizzled, but they have been doing support work for some of the other big games. It's not like they've produced nothing. They've just been doing background work for other Nintendo projects. Still would love to hear what went wrong with their own game, though.

What other games have they worked on? 7 and a half years is still far too long for a major studio to go without releasing a single new game or even having anything to show for themselves as to what they're working on. They consistently released new games every 2-3 years from 2002 to 2014, then nothing at all for more than twice that interval. Something has obviously one very wrong behind the scenes, beyond just a single canceled project.