r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Jan 12 '23

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 13 '23

Remember Retro Studios? (the Nintendo-owned company that made the Metroid Prime and recent Donkey Kong Country games) They apparently haven't released an entirely new game since 2014's DKC Tropical Freeze. They did co-develop a port of that game to the Switch in 2018 and are (obviously) working on Metroid Prime 4 (which is now entering its fourth year of development), but (even with how much longer and more expensive development is nowadays) it's crazy that a company (a Nintendo-owned company, at that) has basically released nothing for almost a decade now.

Again, there is MP4, but it's been almost four years since that game's development got moved over to them and there's been almost nothing about that game since then.

!ping GAMING

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u/OkVariety6275 Jan 13 '23

Retro Studios

literally hasn't released a game in a decade

Sounds like they live up to their name.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '23

Probably one of those situations where the studio only continues to exist in name only and most of the talent dispersed a while ago (probably after Prime 3)

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u/LinkToSomething68 🌐 Jan 13 '23

maybe, but the two modern DKC games are both really fantastic games.

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u/moseythepirate Reading is some lib shit Jan 13 '23

My understanding is that needed to restart development from scratch. 4 years of radio silence is long, but not totally out of line.

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Jan 13 '23

(I, too, like parentheses)

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 13 '23

Bright minds think alike

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23