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I haven't experienced any major glitches in Little Dragons Cafe, only minor graphical glitches.
Nerds nearly need needy nerdy nerds
No word on the Untitled Goose Game yet, which is unfortunate.
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Darling.
Our lives will not be complete until then.
Goose for Smash.
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Now it all makes sense. They're saving the Untitled Goose Game announcement for the next Smash direct.
Darling.
The Unknown
The Switch is outpacing the PS4 and Xbox One in terms of sales in the US when launch adjusted.
The Guy in the Capsule
Short version, Metroid Prime 4 is having some difficulties in development... so Nintendo has decided to basically scrap what they have and call in Retro for help.
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer. — Unknown
The Fastest Man Alive
I’d rather that than have a game I’m looking forward to cancelled twice (*glares in Star Wars fan*).
So is Retro gonna help with the other studio Nintendo was using or was Nintendo doing the game themselves? Didn't Nintendo also ask Retro to help finish Mario Kart 7 in time for Christmas?
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The Fastest Man Alive
It sounds like it was in-house.
Professional Complainer
I thought the guys who made the Prime trilogy had left the company and made RE:Core.
The Fastest Man Alive
That doesn’t mean the studio’s design philosophy has changed. And I’m pretty sure the main producer is still there.
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I'm cautiously optimistic. Corporations, by their very nature, are examples of Theseus ship - if all the original people leave, but new people are still there, is it still the same company? Retro likely does have a culture in which the current crop were inducted, and in all probability they did work at the same time as the old guard, so hopefully absorbed enough talent to pull this off.
This isn't unprecedented. id kept on making great games even after Carmack, Romero, Hall, Other Carmack, Peterson, and McGee had all left, so hopefully Retro can do the same.
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The Unknown
Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze was made after important company figures had already left, so there's still hope that Prime 4 will turn out good.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
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I hope they show footage or concept art of the canned Prime 4 sooner than later. This is really fascinating from a What Could Have Been standpoint, but I'm not looking forward for it being covered up for 10-20 years.
I am betting the game won't be ready till 2021 or later.
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Disasturbator
It may never be released,starting over from scratch is a bad sign and means development is having loads of problems
(sorry Metroid Fans)
New theme music also a box
I'm not so sure on that. I know some games had to be done over and they were released.
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The Fastest Man Alive
That's never been Nintendo's style.
Nintendo doesn't usually formally announce games years before they launch. Typically, they'll drop the announcement at most just slightly over a year before release, which is generally far enough in development that a delay or cancellation would be unlikely at that point.
The Switch presentation announcement and E3 2017 had a number of uncharacteristically early announcements because Nintendo really wanted to push the system (as weird as it is to say in retrospect, remember that nobody had any reason to believe the Switch would succeed). Before that, the only major Nintendo titles I can remember that have suffered delays since the turn of the century were BOTW and SSB Brawl.
Professional Forum Ninja
The only do when they feel there is a need. Like having a Direct full of games that are years out because the system they are coming for went way under expectations.
Case in point:
Nintendo also hyped Twilight Princess before it got delayed twice. To add onto my point from before, a game being redone from square one is a huge risk, but it doesn't mean it's doomed to never release. See Final Fantasy XIV (it had assets from 1.0 already, but they still had to redo the entire game) and Duke Nukem Forever.
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Professional Forum Ninja
I forgot Breath of the Wild as well.
This announcement felt like the Bot W delay announcement at the end of March 2015, just a couple of weeks after the Switch was first announced as the NX.
At least Bot W had gameplay footage and a trailer before then, so I'm not sure which is worse/better.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Stuff like this is why I love Nintendo and companies with the same kind of philosophy towards development as Nintendo.
The “things are going poorly, so let’s bring in more teams to make sure this is good” approach is such a welcome change from the constant “problems? Burn it all to the ground and fire all the developers,” stories you hear from other companies.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Or the "launch it anyway, release fixes later in patches, and blame customers when sales are low and you cancel everything" plan.
