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Dulfite on 10 January 2014
flagstaad said:
curl-6 said:

I refuse to believe they're having trouble meeting Tropical Freeze's already-delayed-by-three-months deadline when its not much more than a Wii game in HD, and they've been free to work on it since November of 2010.

They have not been completly FREE since November 2010. Most likely a few members of the team (the tech and art guys) started working to port their engines to HD, while the other part of the team (the designers and game scripters) helped in another projects, like Mario Kart 7 and DKC Returns for 3DS.


I'm fairly certain Monolith Soft sent people to help with 7, not Retro, and I heard that the DK 3ds game was outsourced to another company to port, a 3rd party company if memory serves me correctly. So Retro, as far as I know, didn't work on either of those titles.



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Roma on 10 January 2014
Dulfite said:


I'm fairly certain Monolith Soft sent people to help with 7, not Retro, and I heard that the DK 3ds game was outsourced to another company to port, a 3rd party company if memory serves me correctly. So Retro, as far as I know, didn't work on either of those titles.

Retro did work on MK7 not sure about DKC:R though



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flagstaad on 10 January 2014
Roma said:
Dulfite said:


I'm fairly certain Monolith Soft sent people to help with 7, not Retro, and I heard that the DK 3ds game was outsourced to another company to port, a 3rd party company if memory serves me correctly. So Retro, as far as I know, didn't work on either of those titles.

Retro did work on MK7 not sure about DKC:R though

They helped with DKCR 3D but the main team was an outside company (monster games), Retro worked as "advisors" and helping port the engine, so maybe a small group of people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Studios

By the way the developers of DKCR 3D are now helping in DKC: TF



Pavolink on 10 January 2014

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flagstaad on 10 January 2014
RolStoppable said:
Those are steps in the right direction. We won't see the results of all those hirings this generation, but it's good preparation for the next one.

Yes we will, those hirings will work on their next project that should be already in pre-production stages, and should be finished by the holidays of 2015 at the most, maybe earlier.



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orniletter on 10 January 2014
JoeTheBro said:
Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze dlc confirmed?


If it is as great as Super Luigi U, I´m in !



DanneSandin on 10 January 2014

Good to see Nintendo (and its studios) expanding! Hopefully they don't do it too fast so that the quality don't drop.



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Asriel on 10 January 2014

Exactly what Nintendo should be doing, but on a larger scale. Next Level and Retro should be the beginnings of EAD North America.



curl-6 on 10 January 2014
JoeTheBro said:
Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze dlc confirmed?

If it  means less focus on their next game, I hope not.



Locknuts on 10 January 2014

Lol. I hope there's something brewing at Nintendo.