Yeah. They'll probably say something like, "wow, this thing is almost as fast as my home computer was back in 2004. It's about the same as the Xbox 360."

This is a good point -- these are a few guys from Retro, not Retro itself.  Three people, unless they're producers aren't likely to produce affect a team all that significantly.

windows i avalible for the mac... and they will install it in the apple store if you want... remember MS started as an apple developer

The deal with Electronic Arts is an experiment of sorts, Pacini said. Under the agreement, the studio will report to EA General Manager Lou Castle as part of EA's secretive Blueprint Division. Castle is acting Executive Producer of the Armature Studio games. Instead of operating like typical game development studios, the core team at Armature Studio will work on game prototypes. Once a game is ready for development a bulk of that work would be shifted to an external team or another studio, while the Armature people would follow the project as directors.

For me, this is the most interesting part of the article.  This means this small group of developers could churn out lots of ideas, while other work on the more mundane tasks of bring a game to market.  They could focus exclusively on being the creative force behind their games.

Hopefully, this means they will have many of their games being worked on by several different external teams at the same time.  That would mean more games for us.

With this setup, we should see their games coming as full retail titles, and not just on WiiWare, XBL, and PSN.

From the article:

Armature Studio, located in Austin, Texas, is headed by Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Jack Mathews, the former Game Director, Art Director and Principal Technology Engineer of the Nintendo franchise.

I find this idea very exciting. It will be interesting to see what these employees do with absolute freedom.

...I just hope it doesn't involve sticking guns on cars.

Metroid prime will be a fine addition to our collection!

What are you talking about? Read!

i saw one person happy about it, and one person kinda flame it. everyone else said "who knows"

I just ment the 360 might get another fps game....I also wanted to put a star wars tone in it.

Guys, Metroid Quality and EA do not fit in the same sentence. I'm hoping these guys can create some good IPs.
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Khuutra said:
I find this idea very exciting. It will be interesting to see what these employees do with absolute freedom.
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You have no idea of what it means to open a studio with out a major IP. It is very difficult.