Retro Studios is Back!

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AZWification on 01 March 2016

Hopefully their new game will get announced and revealed soon.

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Turkish on 01 March 2016

Lol, the only relevant news about this studio in the last few years has been:
-opened a twitter account (feb 2015)
-redesigned website (feb 2016)

Looking ahead:

2017: they open a youtube channel
2018: Instagram account
2019: finally new game shown?

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Aielyn on 01 March 2016

curl-6 said:

Kai_Mao said:

In the end, it's up to Retro and Nintendo to agree on what Retro wants to do next. Don't make a dark and mature game just for the sake of it. If Retro wants to do it, they'll do it.

Nintendo has a diversity problem. They sorely lack dark/mature exclusives compared to the competition. Getting Retro to make the same family-friendly fare as EAD is bad business.

Xenoblade Chronicles X says hi.

And Retro weren't "brought in to make dark/mature games". They were brought in to make games. That YOU think Nintendo needs more dark/mature games doesn't mean that Retro should be forced to make them. Especially when Nintendo is just as capable of making them with other studios, both internal (Monolith) and external (Platinum).

The fact of the matter is, if any studio were forced to make games they didn't want to make, the quality of said games would be much worse. What you're advocating for is Nintendo dictating from above - correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't exactly that been the reason why so many third parties are so cautious about working with Nintendo? Because Nintendo were somewhat dictatorial about their consoles in the past?

But hey, to hell with logic.

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curl-6 on 01 March 2016

Aielyn said:

curl-6 said:

Nintendo has a diversity problem. They sorely lack dark/mature exclusives compared to the competition. Getting Retro to make the same family-friendly fare as EAD is bad business.

Xenoblade Chronicles X says hi.

And Retro weren't "brought in to make dark/mature games". They were brought in to make games. That YOU think Nintendo needs more dark/mature games doesn't mean that Retro should be forced to make them. Especially when Nintendo is just as capable of making them with other studios, both internal (Monolith) and external (Platinum).

The fact of the matter is, if any studio were forced to make games they didn't want to make, the quality of said games would be much worse. What you're advocating for is Nintendo dictating from above - correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't exactly that been the reason why so many third parties are so cautious about working with Nintendo? Because Nintendo were somewhat dictatorial about their consoles in the past?

But hey, to hell with logic.

Xenoblade X and it's ilk are not enough. Nintendo is drowning in E-rated family fare but severely lacked M/T rated exclusives.

And no, this is not about what I want. Nintendo specifically acquired Retro to make mature games:

http://au.ign.com/articles/2004/12/18/a-retrospective-the-story-of-retro-studios?page=2

"Nintendo hoped that with Jeff's experience and leadership, Retro Studios would be able to provide Nintendo's new console with games targeted at an older demographic"

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Aielyn said:

curl-6 said:

Nintendo has a diversity problem. They sorely lack dark/mature exclusives compared to the competition. Getting Retro to make the same family-friendly fare as EAD is bad business.

Xenoblade Chronicles X says hi.

And Retro weren't "brought in to make dark/mature games". They were brought in to make games. That YOU think Nintendo needs more dark/mature games doesn't mean that Retro should be forced to make them. Especially when Nintendo is just as capable of making them with other studios, both internal (Monolith) and external (Platinum).

The fact of the matter is, if any studio were forced to make games they didn't want to make, the quality of said games would be much worse. What you're advocating for is Nintendo dictating from above - correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't exactly that been the reason why so many third parties are so cautious about working with Nintendo? Because Nintendo were somewhat dictatorial about their consoles in the past?

But hey, to hell with logic.

That was Retro's mission. Not to end doing irrelevant 2D DK games.

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